WebPlatform Blog

Theme for blog.webplatform.org for WebPlatform.

Expected plugins

Those plugins are expected to be installed. Installation as submodules #TODO

• public-post-preview git
• w3-total-cache
• wp-piwik
• revision-control

To install

• Clone this repo

• Get all submodules

    git submodule update --init --recursive
  

• Make sure you have the following php modules:

  • php5-memcache

• Install the Expected plugins (see note above this section)

• Copy error pages static files. Automate with salt #TODO

    wget www.webplatform.org/errors/{503,500,404,403}.html
  

Use with Vagrant and VirtualBox

1. This will create a master less Salt managed VM.

2. Install plugins first:

    vagrant plugin install vagrant-salt
    vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
   

3. Clone full project, get dependencies

    // git clone ...
    git submodule update --init --recursive
    patch --binary -p1 < assets/revision-control-fixes.patch
   

4. Create the VM

    vagrant up
   

5. Once if finishes, you might see error messages. Sorry about that, it should be fixed soon. We need to connect to the VM and do some things manually.

    sudo -s
    DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -q -y install mariadb-server
    apt-get -y autoremove
    exit
    salt state.highstate
   

   The latter is an alias in the salt/states/wordpress/dev.sls file that creates an alias to not need su privileges to issue salt commands.

6. Once its done, exit and check for the VM IP address.

    vagrant ssh
   

Notice the IP address Vagrant announces. Adjust your local hosts file with it

    172.28.128.3 blog.local

NOTE: In Windows its generally in %windir%\system32 in drivers\etc and called hosts (without file extension). If you never changed a hosts file on Microsoft Windows, refer to this Microsoft Support Knowledge base article.

1. Ensure you have a local.php

    cp local.php.example local.php
   

2. Install the development database "fixtures"

    mysql -u root wordpress < assets/fixtures-dev.sql
   

3. Then allow writing on some folders. Those are workarounds because /vagrant is not really in the VM and the web server would throw errors because the file system will fail

    mkdir /tmp/wp-cache
    ln -s /tmp/wp-cache /vagrant/wp-content/cache
   

Documentation

• How to use Git with WordPress
• WordPress Packagist

TODO, eventually

1. Forbid to update plugins
2. Commit back upstream revision-control plugin patch using SVN. See issue comment
3. Change Memcached handler?

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/memcached/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/batcache/

Please note

In a near future, all assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) that are specific for creating the image of the WebPlatform site should be hosted/managed from within the www.webplatform.org project. Any other code that is specific to wordpress can stay in this repository.