• WP 4.0
• ACF 4.3.9
• Akismet
• CAPTCHA
• Contact Form 7
• TwentyFourteen theme

A WordPress starter kit, based on the excellent work of Roots.io.

Rather than just use bedrock, I have pieced this together from @swalkinshaw’s thorough screencast, to increase the size of my brain.

Hopefully this may be useful to web developers who want a well organised, easy to deploy WordPress installation.

• composer install
• Create .env file from .env.example
• Make a nice new database
• Set environment variables in your new .env file
  1. Database name
  • Database user
  • Database password
  • Database host (eg localhost)
  • Environment definition (eg development)
  • Home URL (eg https://growdigital.org)
  • WordPress site URL (eg https://growdigital.org/wp)
  • Get your Salts, add them to .env
• Set WordPress file permissions
• Run the WordPress install in a browser
• Change Site address (URL) in Settings > General
• Enable permalinks in Settings > Permalinks

• Twelve Factor WordPress
• Using Composer with WordPress.