WordPress Skeleton

Downloading This repository

You can get this to work in two ways, via .git or download it manually

Donwloading via Git

In the webroot run:

git clone https://github.com/janw-oostendorp/WordPress-Skeleton.git .

This will download the base, next we download the WordPress submodule.

git submodule update --init

If needed add your own remote repository

git remote rm origin git remote add origin YOUR_REPOSITORY.URL/

Manual download

Download the zip and unzip it in the webroot. Download Wordpress unzip it in the /wp folder.

How to install

After downloading you can continue to install WordPress

1. Copy local-config.sample.php and rename it to local-config.php
2. Add the database constants and the domain
3. In wp-config.php Edit the $table_prefix
4. add the *_KEY constants which can be generated here
5. open your website and continue with the famous 5 minute install.

Quickstart with docker

1. copy local-config.sample.php as local-config.php

2. edit local-config.php and set DB_NAME / DB_USER / DB_PASSWORD to wpdemo, point DB_HOST and WP_HOME to your docker host (e.g. docker-machine ip default)

3. launch apache & mysql:

    export WWW_DIR=/path/to/WordPress-Skeleton
    docker-compose build
    docker-compose up
   

4. open your website and continue with the famous 5 minute install.

Benefits

• WordPress is in it's own folder /wp.
• Webroot only has two folders /wp and /content
• Automatic updates are enabled for production, adding more security.
• Error display and logging are setup. On production errors will be logged, on test the will be shown.