Mediocre WordPress Boilerplate

An attempt to have sane version control for a WordPress project without using Composer to manage WordPress itself as a dependency or it in a install subdirectory. This repo is for demonstration purposes. In reality, I’m using Bedrock instead and I recommend you do the same.

Project Structure

example.com
├── bin
│  └── install-wp.sh      # Installs WordPress on top of src
├── src                   # The WordPress project’s codebase and web root
│  └── wp-content         # Custom Git-included project files
│     ├── mu-plugins
│     ├── plugins
│     └── themes
├── composer.json         # For managing plugin dependencies
└── README.md

Requirements

• WP-CLI: this is what downloads WordPress.
• Composer: this is used to manage dependencies.

Install

Set the WordPress version in bin/install-wp.sh and then run the script:

# version defaults to 'latest'
$ composer install:wp <version>

Usage

Development

You will need to ensure your custom project files aren’t being ignored. You will need to modify .gitignore over the course of your project.

Production

Not recommended. You’ll have to support yourself if you do.