STL WordPress Meetup July 2015

.gitignore (optimized)

*~
.DS_Store
.svn
.cvs
*.bak
*.swp
Thumbs.db

# wordpress specific
wp-config.php
wp-content/uploads/
wp-content/blogs.dir/
wp-content/upgrade/*
wp-content/backup-db/*
wp-content/advanced-cache.php
wp-content/wp-cache-config.php
wp-content/cache/*
wp-content/cache/supercache/*

# wp core (as of 3.4.1)
/db-config.php
/index.php
/license.txt
/readme.html
/wp-activate.php
/wp-app.php
/wp-atom.php
/wp-blog-header.php
/wp-comments-post.php
/wp-commentsrss2.php
/wp-config-sample.php
/wp-cron.php
/wp-feed.php
/wp-links-opml.php
/wp-load.php
/wp-login.php
/wp-mail.php
/wp-rdf.php
/wp-rss.php
/wp-rss2.php
/wp-pass.php
/wp-register.php
/wp-settings.php
/wp-signup.php
/wp-trackback.php
/xmlrpc.php
/wp-admin
/wp-includes
/wp-content/index.php
/wp-content/themes/*
/wp-content/plugins/*

# don't ingore these themes and plugins
!/wp-content/themes/mytheme
!/wp-content/plugins/commercial-plugin
!/wp-content/plugins/custom-plugin

# large/disallowed file types
# a CDN should be used for these
*.hqx
*.bin
*.exe
*.dll
*.deb
*.dmg
*.iso
*.img
*.msi
*.msp
*.msm
*.mid
*.midi
*.kar
*.mp3
*.ogg
*.m4a
*.ra
*.3gpp
*.3gp
*.mp4
*.mpeg
*.mpg
*.mov
*.webm
*.flv
*.m4v
*.mng
*.asx
*.asf
*.wmv
*.avi

.gitignore (simplified)

*.log
.htaccess
sitemap.xml
sitemap.xml.gz
wp-config.php
wp-content/advanced-cache.php
wp-content/backup-db/
wp-content/backups/
wp-content/blogs.dir/
wp-content/cache/
wp-content/upgrade/
wp-content/uploads/
wp-content/wp-cache-config.php
wp-content/plugins/hello.php

links

## Tools
* [WordPress Packagist](http://wpackagist.org/) - Plugin Mangagment with Composer
* [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/)
* [WP CLI](http://wp-cli.org/)
* [WP Migrate DB](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/)
* [All In One WP Migration](https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/)
* [UpdraftPlus](https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/)
* [PHP dotenv](https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv)

## Modern WP Stack
* [hoboPress](https://github.com/bytefair/hoboPress) - Simple Modernized WP
* [Bedrock](https://roots.io/bedrock/) - Comprehensive Modernized WP

sample post-receive deployment script

#!/bin/bash

TEMP=$HOME/tmp
APPDIR=$HOME/public_html

rm -rf $TEMP
git clone $HOME/app.git $TEMP

composer install -d $TEMP
# theme build goes here
# scripted DB migration can also go here

rm -rf $APPDIR/*
rm -rf $TEMP/.git $TEMP/.editorconfig $TEMP/.env.sample $TEMP/.gitignore $TEMP/composer.* $TEMP/Vagrantfile
cp -R $TEMP/* $APPDIR
cp $HOME/.env $APPDIR