WP Base

This is a WordPress base project with Bedrock, Timber and Laravel Mix.
I gathered a lot of good practises over my years of freelance developer, and combined theme as a full starter pack for any WordPress project, for any developer bored by the lack of modernism in the WordPress coding styles.

It IS opinionated since it was mainly built for my personal use, but I wanted to share it thinking it could help some people.

Installation

Requirements

• PHP 8.0+
• Composer
• node 18.20+

Step-by-step

1. git clone git@github.com:jehandev/wp-base.git <YOUR_PROJECT_FOLDER>
2. cd into the project
3. composer install
4. npm install
5. cp .env.example .env, then nano .env and enter/change the variables in this new file :

• DB_NAME
• DB_USER
• DB_PASSWORD
• DB_HOST
• WP_ENV (development, staging or production)
• WP_HOME
• WP_SITEURL

6. Generate Salts with Roots App and copy/paste them in .env
7. Use this command to install WordPress (don't forget to replace the variables) :

• wp core install --url=<WEBSITE_URL (be sure to include https:// if needed)> --title=<WEBSITE_TITLE> --admin_user=<USER_NAME> --admin_password=<USER_PASSWORD> --admin_email=<USER_PEMAIL>

8. Activate all Plugins : wp plugin activate --all
9. Remove every default posts, comments, pages : wp site empty
10. Activate the default child-theme : wp theme activate wp-base-child
11. Be sure to make your default folder point to /web in your server configuration, and not on the root folder or this project
12. You're all set !

Base

• Bedrock
• Timber (Twig)

Optimizations

• Remove WordPress Emojicons
• Disable Auto Paragraphs
• Add slug in body class
• Set Image Meta on Upload (Title / Description / Alt)
• Disable Comments
• Disable email verification
• Remove jQuery Migrate
• Remove Core, Yoast and WordFence dashboard widgets
• Allow SVG Uploads
• Remove Contact Form 7 scripts and styles if no CF7 shortcode in the content
• Remove Dashicons on frontend if user is not admin

Security

• Remove Pingback
• Disable XML-RPC
• Hide WordPress Version
• Remove Unnecessary Header Infos

Theme Settings

• Supports : post-thumbnails, html5, custom-logo, responsive-embeds
• Text domain for translations : wpbase

Helpers

• Use jjgrainger/posttypes for easy OOP Custom Post Types creation without plugin

Plugins :

• Contact Form 7
• Ewww Image Optimizer
• Query Monitor
• Regenerate Thumbnails
• WordFence
• WP Mail SMTP
• WPS Hide Login
• Yoast SEO

Task Runner : Laravel Mix

@Todo : update to Vite instead of Mix

• Use mix or mix watch to compile assets for development
• Use mix --production to compile assets for production

Details & features

@Todo : providing a way to import files from node_modules in css

• PostCSS must be located in the assets/postcss of the wp-base-child folder
• JavaScript must be located in the assets/js of the wp-base-child folder
• Images are processed in the assets/js of the wp-base-child folder and optimized with imagemin, imagemin-mozjpeg, imagemin-pngquant, imagemin-svgo, imagemin-webp and imagemin-gifsicle
• Fonts are copied from the assets/fonts to the dist/fonts folder

Pre-bundled frameworks

• TailwindCSS

Linters

These linters are applied when processing files with Laravel Mix.

Eslint Rules

@help-needed : probably far from being perfect and way too permissive I think

{
    "parserOptions": {
        "ecmaVersion": 2017,
        "sourceType": "module",
        "ecmaFeatures": {
            "jsx": true
        }
    },
    "rules" : {
        "camelcase": 1,
        "comma-dangle": 2,
        "quotes": 0
    }
}

Stylelint Rules

Generated with Stylelint Config Generator

"indentation": 4,
"string-quotes": "single",
"no-duplicate-selectors": true,
"color-hex-case": "lower",
"color-hex-length": "long",
"color-named": "never",
"selector-no-qualifying-type": true,
"selector-combinator-space-after": "always",
"selector-attribute-quotes": "always",
"selector-attribute-operator-space-before": "never",
"selector-attribute-operator-space-after": "never",
"selector-attribute-brackets-space-inside": "never",
"declaration-block-trailing-semicolon": "never",
"declaration-colon-space-before": "never",
"declaration-colon-space-after": "always",
"property-no-vendor-prefix": true,
"value-no-vendor-prefix": true,
"number-leading-zero": "always",
"function-url-quotes": "never",
"font-weight-notation": "numeric",
"font-family-name-quotes": "always-where-recommended",
"comment-whitespace-inside": "always",
"comment-empty-line-before": "always",
"at-rule-no-vendor-prefix": true,
"rule-empty-line-before": "always",
"selector-pseudo-element-colon-notation": "double",
"selector-pseudo-class-parentheses-space-inside": "never",
"selector-no-vendor-prefix": true,
"media-feature-range-operator-space-before": "always",
"media-feature-range-operator-space-after": "always",
"media-feature-parentheses-space-inside": "never",
"media-feature-colon-space-before": "never",
"media-feature-colon-space-after": "always"