alpipego/wp-base

WordPress Installation Blueprint (Including recurrent plugins etc.)

WP Base

My subjective basic Composer-WordPress blueprint, _(*1)

How to use

• remove all plugins you do not wish to install
• you can add different configuration for different environments (by default local, staging, production)
• to get started locally, add your environment details to config/env/local.json (see config/env/default.json for a blueprint)
• add your virtual host details to config/nginx/local.conf and symlink that file to nginx sites-enabled (If you want to use apache together with php-fpm the process is pretty much the same. If your using mod-php you'll have to figure it out for yourself).
• if you want to use ACF Pro you need to add a license key (as the value for the k query string)
• some plugins like WP Mail SMTP tend to remove their old tags from the repository (if they do this the install will fail), to prevent this either change their version number to "*" or keep them in sync with wpackagist

As of version 1.0.0 this can also be installed as a project:, _(*2)

composer create-project alpipego/wp-base 1.0.* --no-scripts

Directory Structure

.
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── composer.json
├── config
│   ├── env
│   │   ├── default.json
│   │   └── local.json
│   ├── env.json
│   └── nginx
│   └── local.conf
├── log
├── web
│   ├── assets
│   │   └── index.php
│   ├── extensions
│   │   └── index.php
│   ├── index.php
│   ├── languages
│   │   └── index.php
│   ├── plugins
│   │   └── index.php
│   ├── uploads
│   │   └── index.php
│   └── wp-config.php
└── wp-config.php, _(*3)

• For a basic setup you should not have to touch more than the configuration files in config and the composer.json

Plugins not in repository

A lot of plugins that are not in the repository can be installed by getting their zip archive:, _(*4)

{
    "type": "package",
    "package": {
        "name": "advanced-custom-fields/advanced-custom-fields-pro",
        "version": "5.3.9",
        "type": "wordpress-plugin",
        "dist": {
            "type": "zip",
            "url": "http://connect.advancedcustomfields.com/index.php?p=pro&a=download&k=LICENSE_KEY"
        }
    }
}

Add the correct version above and then require it with:, _(*5)

"advanced-custom-fields/advanced-custom-fields-pro": "*"