For more advanced WordPress sites and apps, you need a dependency manager. Here’s how to convert a WordPress site to Bedrock. Bedrock is a project from roots.io that helps WordPress to be built using Composer.
I’ve converted dozens of standard WP installs to Bedrock by hand, and finally wrote a script to automate the process. The Gist is below.
The bedrock conversion process outline:
- clone bedrock repo
- copy wp-content folder from source WP
- install plugins via composer
- commit non-repo plugins
- install theme(s) via composer
- commit non-repo themes
- set up .env file
- set up .gitignore file
If you’d like to read a detailed writeup on the manual procedure, Here’s a good article from Neonbrand.
Here’s the Gist:
