Bedrock
Bedrock is a modern WordPress stack that helps you get started with the best development tools and project structure.
Much of the philosophy behind Bedrock is inspired by the Twelve-Factor App methodology including the WordPress specific version.
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)
Use Trellis for additional features:
- Easy development environments with Vagrant
- Easy server provisioning with Ansible (Ubuntu 14.04, PHP 5.6 or HHVM, MariaDB)
- One-command deploys
Requirements
- PHP >= 5.4
- Composer - Install
Installation
- Clone the git repo -
git clone https://github.com/roots/bedrock.git
- Run
composer install
- Copy
.env.example
to.env
and update environment variables:
DB_NAME
- Database nameDB_USER
- Database userDB_PASSWORD
- Database passwordDB_HOST
- Database hostWP_ENV
- Set to environment (development
,staging
,production
)WP_HOME
- Full URL to WordPress home (http://example.com)WP_SITEURL
- Full URL to WordPress including subdirectory (http://example.com/wp)
- Add theme(s) in
web/app/themes
as you would for a normal WordPress site. - Set your site vhost document root to
/path/to/site/web/
(/path/to/site/current/web/
if using deploys) - Access WP admin at
http://example.com/wp/wp-admin
Deploys
There are two methods to deploy Bedrock sites out of the box:
Any other deployment method can be used as well with one requirement:
composer install
must be run as part of the deploy process.
Documentation
Contributing
Contributions are welcome from everyone. We have contributing guidelines to help you get started.
Community
Keep track of development and community news.
- Participate on the Roots Discourse
- Follow @rootswp on Twitter
- Read and subscribe to the Roots Blog
- Subscribe to the Roots Newsletter