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Bedrock is a modern WordPress stack that helps you get started with the best development tools and project structure., (*2)
Much of the philosophy behind Bedrock is inspired by the Twelve-Factor App methodology including the WordPress specific version., (*3)
Features
- Better folder structure
- Dependency management with Composer
- Easy WordPress configuration with environment specific files
- Environment variables with Dotenv
- Autoloader for mu-plugins (use regular plugins as mu-plugins)
- Enhanced security (separated web root and secure passwords with wp-password-bcrypt)
Use Trellis for additional features:, (*4)
- Easy development environments with Vagrant
- Easy server provisioning with Ansible (Ubuntu 16.04, PHP 7.1, MariaDB)
- One-command deploys
See a complete working example in the roots-example-project.com repo., (*5)
Requirements
Installation
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Create a new project in a new folder for your project:, (*6)
composer create-project roots/bedrock your-project-folder-name, (*7)
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Update environment variables in .env file:, (*8)
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DB_NAME - Database name
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DB_USER - Database user
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DB_PASSWORD - Database password
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DB_HOST - Database host
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WP_ENV - Set to environment (development, staging, production)
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WP_HOME - Full URL to WordPress home (http://example.com)
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WP_SITEURL - Full URL to WordPress including subdirectory (http://example.com/wp)
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AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY, NONCE_KEY, AUTH_SALT, SECURE_AUTH_SALT, LOGGED_IN_SALT, NONCE_SALT
If you want to automatically generate the security keys (assuming you have wp-cli installed locally) you can use the very handy wp-cli-dotenv-command:, (*9)
wp package install aaemnnosttv/wp-cli-dotenv-command, (*10)
wp dotenv salts regenerate, (*11)
Or, you can cut and paste from the Roots WordPress Salt Generator., (*12)
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Add theme(s) in web/app/themes as you would for a normal WordPress site., (*13)
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Set your site vhost document root to /path/to/site/web/ (/path/to/site/current/web/ if using deploys), (*14)
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Access WP admin at http://example.com/wp/wp-admin, (*15)
Deploys
There are two methods to deploy Bedrock sites out of the box:, (*16)
Any other deployment method can be used as well with one requirement:, (*17)
composer install must be run as part of the deploy process., (*18)
Documentation
Bedrock documentation is available at https://roots.io/bedrock/docs/., (*19)
Contributing
Contributions are welcome from everyone. We have contributing guidelines to help you get started., (*20)
Keep track of development and community news., (*21)