https://github.com/titaniumbones/uoft-wordpress-distro

Intended as a superproject collecting various wordpress-related bits of code in a single place, with scripts that make it relatively easy to start a new instance of wordpress with all of our mods.
https://github.com/titaniumbones/uoft-wordpress-distro

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Intended as a superproject collecting various wordpress-related bits of code in a single place, with scripts that make it relatively easy to start a new instance of wordpress with all of our mods.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/titaniumbones/uoft-wordpress-distro
• Owner: titaniumbones
• Created: 2012-07-10T01:15:44.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-10-24T13:54:56.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-12T07:57:03.965Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: PHP
• Size: 50.8 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.org

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* University of Toronto Wordpress Distro

This repository is a skeletal framework that holds a group of wordpress cusotmizations, collected in a simple Wordpress plugin and at least one Wordpress theme.  It also contains a simple bash script, init_distro.sh, that will download and unpack both wordpress and a series of plugins, including especially CCTM -- the Custom Content Type Manager plugin -- on which our own plugin and themes rely heavily.  Finally, it includes a JSON-formatted file containing the definitions for a set of "Custom Post Types" that extend Wordpress's native capabilities in important ways.  

* Installing the Distro 

To install the distro simply clone this repository (git clone use-the-url-in-the-bar-above), and then cd into the root directory of the repository and run init_distro.sh:

#+BEGIN_SRC

bash init_distro.sh

#+END_SRC

The script, which is heavily commented, will download and unpack Wordpress as well as the plugins specified in the file wp-content/uot-vars.php.  During the install process, all of the plugins will be activated, and the custom content type definitions activated (can't load them on install time yet -- don't understand why not!).  

* Files and Functions

- init-distro.sh:  This bash script will get all the git submodules (a simple, poorly-written plugin with helper functions, and a similarly poorly-written theme), download wordpress as well as the plugins listed in wp-content/uotvars.php, and add secret keys to  wp-config.php.  

- wp-content/uotvars.php:  keeps variables we will need later in the install process.  YOU MUST MODIFY THIS FILE BEFORE RUNNING init-distro.sh !!  

- wp-content/var-translator.php: allows the php arrays in uotvars.php to be used by init-disro.sh.  Ensures that install.php and init-distro.php get the same set of plugins.

- wp-content/install.php:  overwrites the wp builtin function wp_install_defaults to install a more reasonable feature set on initialization.  

* Automating Apache setup, cloning for multiple sites

If you want even more automation, try modifying the simple bash script [[https://gist.github.com/d4b6fa56d1e082002f22][here]].  

* Help me out!

This is a primitive work-in-progress by a second-rate coder.  If you're interested in helping out, I welcome contributions -- please add issues t [[https://github.com/titaniumbones/uoft-wordpress-distro/issues][the github issue queue]] or clone the [[https://github.com/titaniumbones/uoft-wordpress-distro][repo]] and submit a pull request.  Thanks!