goose-studio/symlinked-extensions

Replaces composer installed plugins, themes and mu-plugins with symlinks to defined folders.

Symlinked Directories

Simple script that replaces a directory with a symlink. If the targeted directory does not exist symlink is still created. The symlink paths directory name is matched against the directories in the chosen target path., _(*1)

Add below config to composer.json to run the script., _(*2)

    "post-update-cmd": ["php vendor/bin/linkit"]

Example linkit.json

{
  "mu-plugins": {
    "target": "/web/app/mu-plugins/",
    "src": [
        "/home/projects/wordpress/my-plugin"    
    ]
  },
  "plugins": {
    "target": "/web/app/plugins/",
    "src": [
        "/home/projects/wordpress/my-plugin",
        "/home/projects/wordpress/my-plugin2"
    ]
  },
  "themes": {
    "target": "/web/app/themes/",
    "src": [
        "/home/projects/wordpress/my-theme"    
    ]
  }
}

Arguments

• --test runs the script but without removing directories or symlinking
• --no-dev excludes the script from running if "--no-dev" param is used in composer install/update.
• --linkit=full_path_to_json_file use specified file as config.
• --hide Do not print commands
• --keep Do not remove existing folders, postfixes with number of folders.