Automation

Recently I have been going through the number of processes that I need to do to set up a new WordPress site locally before development can commence. Below I will outline these and then in a follow up post I will describe how I have gone about automating them. Steps to automate:

• Create new folder
• Add WordPress files
• Add Starter Theme
• Setup Database
• Configure hosts with localhost url(/etc/hosts)
• Configure httpd-vhosts.conf with localhost url and project folder location
• Customise style.sass with theme name
• Initialise git, add files to git, initial commit, add remote, first push
• Restart Apache
• Import default db with test data
• Add Default wp-config.php, and configure with db name, localhost url
• Run grunt sass to compile initial style.css file (in this case I’m ignoring *.css files in git)
• Add alias to ~/.bash_profile (to do grunt)
• Add default plugins you know, the ones that you use on every site.