Modern Wordpress Biolerplate

Making theme and plugin development easier for both frontend and backend developers

Features:

• Webpack
• Live reload with BrowserSync
• SCSS/SASS Support
• Using Docker
• Plugin management using Composer
• Import and Export DB

Requirements

• Node js
• Yarn
• PHP and Composer
• Docker for Mac / Windows
• Docker Compose

Getting started

git clone https://github.com/sesn/modern-wordpress-biolerplate.git
yarn install
composer install # if plugins needs to be installed
docker-compose up

For Local Development

yarn start

For Production

yarn build

Changing ports

There are two ports invloved.

• 1 port - For dockerized wordpress instance
• 2 port - For BrowserSync

Port 1

# docker-compose.yml
...
  ports:
    - "9009:80" # 
...

Port 2

// scripts/webpack.config.js
...
  new BrowserSyncPlugin({
    ...
    port: 4000, // Change second port here
    ...
  })
...

Project Structure

.
├── composer.json                # Compose dependencies (plugins)
├── composer.lock                # Composer lock file
├── docker-compose.yml           # Docker Compose configuration
├── footer.php
├── functions.php
├── header.php
├── index.php
├── package.json                 # Node.js dependencies
├── page.php  
├──scripts                       # Build / Dev Scripts
│   ├── build.js                 # Build task
│   ├── start.js                 # Start task
│   └── webpack.config.js        # Webpack configuration   
└──src
    ├── index.js                 # JavaScript entry point
    ├── routes                   # Routes
    │   ├── common.js            # JS that will run on EVERY page
    │   └── <xxx>.js             # JS that will run on pages with <xxx> slug 
    ├── style.scss               # SCSS style entry point
    ├── styles                   # SCSS
    │   ├── _global-vars.scss
    │   ├── _base.scss
    │   └── ...
    └── util
        ├── Router.js            # HTML5 Router, DO NOT TOUCH
        └── camelCase.js 
                # Helper function for Router, DO NOT TOUCH

New Features Checklist

• Redis Cache
• Separate Branch for hosting in nginx
• Bash script to replace the URL for dev, test and production environments
• AWS S3 Uploads
• Plugin management using wp-cli (Additional)
• docker-compose.yml for production
• Installing and renewing SSL Certificate using lets-encrypt
• Automatic creation of initial wordpress setup using environment variables.
• Cron job for sql backup
• wp-config.php edit functionality
• Adding default security measures for wordpress
  • Prevent execution of php inside uploads folder
  • Disable indexing
  • Clickjacking Prevention
  • Add relevant third party source in header-access-origin

Contribution and Suggestions:

• Feel free to suggest any features and to contribute.

Thanks:

• This is a custom upgrade version of presspack developed by Jared Palmer @jaredpalmer