Kili Boilerplate

Kili Boilerplate is a modern WordPress stack that helps you get started with the best theme development tools and project structure.

Features

• Better folder structure
• Dependency management with Composer
• Easy WordPress configuration with environment specific files
• Environment variables with Dotenv
• Autoloader for mu-plugins (use regular plugins as mu-plugins)
• Enhanced security (separated web root and secure passwords with wp-password-bcrypt)

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.6 Install Pilothouse or Install Mamp Pro
• Composer - Install

Installation

1. Download the latest release and setup.

2. Copy .env.example to .env and update environment variables:

• DB_NAME - Database name
• DB_USER - Database user
• DB_PASSWORD - Database password
• DB_HOST - Database host
• WP_ENV - Set to environment (development, staging, production)
• WP_HOME - Full URL to WordPress home (https://example.dev)
• AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY, NONCE_KEY, AUTH_SALT, SECURE_AUTH_SALT, LOGGED_IN_SALT, NONCE_SALT If you want to automatically generate the security keys you can search for an online salt generator (https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/)

Starting the app

1. You can start the app with Composer, this will launch the required containers:

$ composer install

2. Run Pilothouse or Mamp Pro

3. Go to the url server for example https://example.dev to start installing WordPress

Staging Deploy

Production Deploy

Troubleshooting