Sonata

Orchestrate your new WordPress project with Composer.

Latest version: 1.1.0

Requirements

• PHP 7.0 and newer. Because it’s 2018, you know
• Native PHP gettext extension (will be used in future versions)
• Composer, obviously
• WP-CLI

Usage

Create new project

composer create-project ihorvorotnov/sonata project_name

Install new package or WordPress plugin

composer require vendor/package
composer require wpackagist-plugin/{plugin-slug}

Update specific package, WordPress or a plugin to latest version

composer update vendor/package
composer update johnpbloch/wordpress
composer update johnbillion/query-monitor
composer wpackagist-plugin/{plugin-slug}

Update all packages to latest versions

composer update

What’s inside

• Latest stable WordPress, as a Composer dependency
• Better password hashing library (uses bcrypt)
• Support for .env configuration files
• Automatically generated WordPress salts in .env using WP-CLI
• Optimized autoloader by default
• Symlinked Twenty Seventeen theme
• Some plugins for development (as Composer dependencies):
  • Query Monitor by @johnbillion
  • Laps by @Rarst
  • Non-Production Robots Ignore by @matgargano
  • User Switching by @johnbillion
  • Airplane Mode by @norcross
• Prevent installing packages with known vulnerabilities with SecurityAdvisories by @Roave
• Ready for Memcached object cache, including custom WP_CACHE_KEY_SALT

Project directory layout

- app
  + languages
  + mu-plugins
  + plugins
  + themes
  + uploads
  • debug.log
- config
  • local.php
  • production.php
  • staging.php  
+ core
+ vendor
• .env
• .env.example
• .gitignore
• composer.json
• composer.lock
• index.php
• LICENSE
• wp-cli.yml
• wp-config.php

Additional Composer packages

Following packages are useful, but not mandatory. Depends on the project.

@todo To be done later