Create new wordpress project with Composer

1-Simple-Composer-Wordpress-Boilerplate.sh

#install composer if you haven't
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

2-composer.json

// Use this composer config to install wordpress
{
    "name": "Jackalope",
    "authors": [{
        "name": "jcklpe",
        "email": "david@jackalope.tech"
    }],
    "type": "project",
    "repositories": [{
        "type": "composer",
        "url": "https://wpackagist.org"
    }],

    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.4",
        "johnpbloch/wordpress": "*"
    },
    "extra": {
        "wordpress-install-dir": "wp"
    }
}

3-step2.sh

# install packages using composer
composer install;

# move wp content, index.php and config up to root folder
cp -R wp/{wp-content,index.php,wp-config-sample.php} .;

# rename config file
mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php;

#Then modify wordpress index.php file so that it points to the correction header file
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wp/wp-blog-header.php' );

#Add these to wp-config.php
define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', __DIR__ . '/wp-content');
define('WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '/wp-content');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '/wp');
define('WP_HOME', 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);

#delete garbage
rm public/wp-content/plugins/hello.php