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wemakecustom/wp-skeleton
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Wordpress skeleton using composer, bower, plugin dependencies and various config files

v1.1(10y ago)4741GPL-2.0ApacheConf

Since Aug 20Pushed 10y ago8 watchersCompare

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Wordpress Skeleton
==================

[](#wordpress-skeleton)

Thin wrapper around [wp-skeleton-installer](https://github.com/wemakecustom/wp-skeleton-installer) to easly install WordPress and get it works.

What it does
------------

[](#what-it-does)

Install selected plugins and a custom theme for a clean starting WordPress:

- [wemakecustom/wp-skeleton-installer](https://github.com/wemakecustom/wp-skeleton-installer) (version ^3.0) is needed for this wrapper to work properly
- [wpackagist-plugin/w3-total-cache](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache) (version ^0.9)
- [wpackagist-plugin/wordpress-seo](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo) (version ^3.0)
- [wemakecustom/wp-skeleton-theme](https://github.com/wemakecustom/wp-skeleton-theme)
- [wemakecustom/wp-skeleton-theme-demo](https://github.com/wemakecustom/wp-skeleton-theme-demo)
- [leafo/lessphp](https://github.com/leafo/lessphp) (version ^0.5) to compile LESS files
- and an `.htaccess` that include rewriterules for LESS files, compression and expires headers.

Install libraries for an easy custom integration:

- [bootstrap](https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap) (version ~3.0) is a front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
- [font-awesome](https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome) (version ~4.0) is an iconic font for easy scalable vector graphics.
- [jquery](https://github.com/jquery/jquery) (version <2.0) is the most used javascript library.
- [modernizr](https://github.com/modernizr/modernizr) (version ~3.0) is a javascript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 in user browser.
- [underscore](https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore) provides a lot of useful javascript helpers.
- [console-polyfill](https://github.com/paulmillr/console-polyfill) is a light library to makes it safe to do `console.log()`.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
$ git clone git@github.com:wemakecustom/wp-skeleton.git
$ cd
$ composer install

```

If you doesn't need the `wp-skeleton-theme-demo` theme:

```
$ composer install --no-dev

```

By default, at the end, you will get WordPress and all configs files installed in `/htdocs/` subfolder. To configure another subfolder, please see section *configuration* bellow.

After that, you have to create the WordPress tables in the database with [wp-cli](http://wp-cli.org/), a command-line tools for managing WordPress. You can read [more information here](http://wp-cli.org/commands/core/install/) about `wp core install` command.

```
$ bin/wp core install --path=htdocs/ --url= --title= --admin_user= --admin_password= --admin_email=

```

Then, finish by running bower to get all recent script up to date in `/htdocs/wp-content/components/`.

```
$ bower install

```

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

The following section in `composer.json` allow you to change the folder where WordPress and the config files are installed. For details about this section, please see [wp-skeleton-installer](https://github.com/wemakecustom/wp-skeleton-installer#configuration).

```
{
    "extra": {
        "wordpress-install-dir": "vendor/wordpress/wordpress",
        "web-dir": "htdocs",
        "installer-paths": {
            "htdocs/wp-content/plugins/{$name}/": ["type:wordpress-plugin"],
            "htdocs/wp-content/mu-plugins/{$name}/": ["type:wordpress-muplugin"],
            "htdocs/wp-content/themes/composer/{$name}/": ["type:wordpress-theme"]
        }
    }
}
```

###  Health Score

33

—

LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity73

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 95% 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

Every ~33 days

Recently: every ~148 days

Total

26

Last Release

3857d ago

Major Versions

v0.6.5 → v1.02014-12-11

### Community

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