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chrisguitarguy/wordpress-skeleton
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WordPress, Composer, and S3

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Modern WordPress Skeleton
=========================

[](#modern-wordpress-skeleton)

A *modern* (whatever that means) WordPress skeleton to use for creating [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/) based WordPress installations.

Gettings Started
----------------

[](#gettings-started)

Create a new project with composer:

```
$ composer create-project chrisguitarguy/wordpress-skeleton new-site ~1.0
$ cd new-site
```

From here you can add new dependencies to `composer.json`, remove the example plugins and themes and do any modifications you need.

Autoloading
-----------

[](#autoloading)

The plugins and themes you build should be autoloaded with `composer.json`. See the example plugin line there right now:

```
{
    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "Chrisguitarguy\\Skeleton\\ExamplePlugin\\": "web/content/plugins/example/inc/"
        },
        "files": [
            "web/content/plugins/example/inc/functions.php"
        ]
    }
}
```

Only autoload file that declare symbols (functions, contants, classes)! Not files that cause side effects.

Excluding Files from Version Control
------------------------------------

[](#excluding-files-from-version-control)

Because not all packages can go in `/vendor`, you'll need to manually exclude things via `.gitignore` (or `.hgignore`, `.svnignore`, etc). There's an example here with the WordPress SEO plugin which is ignored in `.gitignore`:

```
/web/content/plugins/wordpress-seo

```

You're Missing {X} From `wp-config.php`
---------------------------------------

[](#youre-missing-x-from-wp-configphp)

Correct. This is meant to get you started, not make all the choices for you.

The various [salts](https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/) are missing, for example. You could add those yourself to another file and `include` it from `wp-config.php` or let WordPress generated them for you and save them in the database (what happens when they are missing).

WHY?!
-----

[](#why)

Because composer is nice and WordPress needs a good dose of modern development practices.

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT. See the `LICENSE` file.

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity19

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4039d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d396af79150164dd4d28f3e816b377e2f3c04df431d8338477517efa0013664c?d=identicon)[chrisguitarguy](/maintainers/chrisguitarguy)

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Top Contributors

[![chrisguitarguy](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1010392?v=4)](https://github.com/chrisguitarguy "chrisguitarguy (3 commits)")

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Tags

wordpress

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