bvalosek / pagodabox-wordpress

Quickstart for Wordpress and Pagoda Box, slightly tweaked; ready to rock.

Wordpress via Pagoda Box

Deploy Wordpress literally three seconds. Embrace the PaaS-ness. Wordpress 3.6 cocked, locked, and ready to rock.

What?

This is a Wordpress base intended to be deployed onto Pagoda Box, a robust PHP Platform-as-a-Service provider. Because of this, there are few differences from a typical Wordpress install.

• There can be no file changes once the app is deployed. Any updates (theme changes, plugin installs/upgrades, Wordpress upgrades) must happen locally first. Once the code is committed and pushed, then the app will be deployed.
• Production database access can only happen inside the infrastructure sandbox. Otherwise, you will have to tunnel in to use e.g. MySQL Workbench.

Getting Started

• Fork this this repo, drop your plugins into www/plugins and themes into www/themes, and deploy to Pagoda Box. Real Simple Stuff.

Via creating a new app

• Add a New Application in your Pagoda Box dashboard
• Select "Clone an existing repo"
• Give it a great name.
• Enter https://github.com/bvalosek/pagodabox-wordpress.git as the "Clone URL"
• Let the infastructure build.
• Clone your app locally git clone [email protected]:my-app-name.git
• All subsequent pushes will re-deploy your site.

Folder Structure

The Wordpress site is hosted out of the www directory. This is the document_root for the first web component on Pagoda Box.

The wp-config.php, index.php, and .htaccess are all setup to allow for a slightly different organization of the Wordpress files. This is all done to make the directory structure a little more obvious, as well as not require you to drop your files into the framework directory.

Here is the setup inside the www directory:

• plugins/: New location for all plugins. Relocated wp-content/plugins directory. Put all plugins here.
• themes/: New location for all themes. Relocated wp-content/themes directory. Put all themes here.
• uploads/: Uploaded media location. NOTE This directory is the only writable directory once deployed to Pagoda Box. Nothing in this directory will appear in the deployed application as it serves as the mount point for the NFS that is the shared storage across all the web components of the app. Don't put anything in here
• wordpress/: This is the Wordpress framework straight from the Zip file. DO NOT modify anything in this directory. To allow for cleaner updates and more transparency into code changes, the plugins and themes directory have been moved outside of the framework directory.

TL;DR

Put all plugins in www/plugins, all themes in www/themes, and don't touch anything else. Deploy your site with zero down time and hassle-free vertical or horizontal scaling.