WordPress Starter Kit

What's this?

It's a WordPress starter kit for fresh projects based on my own observations with WordPress which is mixing modern and secure techniques with the standard way - best of both worlds.

What does it do?

Uses WP CLI locally to install and upgrade WordPress core and plugins from the official sources
Plugins can be defined as a list in wp-plugins.txt with their slugs from the WordPress Plugin Directory
WordPress installed to a dedicated public directory
Runs WordPress installer from command line with your choice of an admin user ("admin" is generally not recommended)
Reads the .env file to access any sensitive data
Loads a custom wp-config.php file from the root with autoloaded Composer
The wp-content directory is moved out from the public folder to be able to run zero downtime deployments and symlinked back to public/wp-content to be able to access it publicly
Ignores the files in folder wp-content/uploads

Themes and custom plugins

If you need any Composer packages or private plugins which are not available in the WordPress Plugin Directory you can install them by adding as a dependency. The only downside of this is that you need to update the plugin versions manually. Composer will know where to put the plugins if the plugin has a proper definition of a wp-plugin type in it's composer.json file.

Themes and any other project specific plugins should be a part of the Git repository, therefor I would recommend you to create some exceptions to exclude these folders from the wp-content directory rules in the .gitignore file.

How to use it?

Run composer install
Fill .env with the right details
Run /bin/bash install.sh to start the installer

Contributions

Bugfixes in the current code are gladly welcome, but I'll decline any pull requests which contain additional feature requests as this package is made for private purposes.

terdelyi / wp-starter