README

Install

You should have Composer installed globally on your machine. Simply run:

composer create-project asha23/arlo-framework-laravel-mix

Overview

This framework is not an off-the-shelf theme. It's a boilerplate to help experienced WordPress developers get up and running quickly and easily. It's not designed to be used by beginners and good knowledge of php is assumed.

Features

1. WordPress is installed using Composer as a dependency. This means you can update WordPress by running composer update in the project root.

2. Similar to Laravel, the core files are out of the root. Database information is kept in a .env file.

3. WordPress Packagist - Keep your plugins up to date by running composer update

4. Uses Laravel Mix in the base theme included. This is a simple way to manage all your build dependencies.

5. There is a core functionality plugin included which strips out a lot of useless WordPress bloat. This is optional.

6. The base theme is extremely bare bones. It's more of an approach template than an actual theme. Useful if you do a lot of theme creation from scratch. Otherwise it should probably be removed.

Notes

It's highly recommended that you use Laravel Homestead to deploy this locally. Please note that the root folder is /web, so you will need to configure the server correctly to point to this folder.

Example NGINX config

    server {
        listen 80;
        listen 443 ssl http2;
        server_name .***your-website***;
        root "/home/vagrant/code/***your-website***/web";

        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        charset utf-8;

        location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
        location = /robots.txt  { allow all; access_log off; log_not_found off; }

        location ~ /.*\.(jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)$ {
            try_files $uri =404;
        }

        location / {
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
        }

        if (!-e $request_filename) {
            # Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests.
            rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;

            # WordPress in a subdirectory rewrite rules
            rewrite ^/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*|xmlrpc.php) /web/wp/$2 break;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
            include fastcgi_params;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
            fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
            fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
        }

        access_log off;
        error_log  /var/log/nginx/plugin-dev.test-error.log error;

        sendfile off;

        client_max_body_size 100m;

        location ~ /\.ht {
            deny all;
        }

        ssl_certificate     /etc/nginx/ssl/***your-website.crt***;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/***your-website.key***;
    }

Example _htaccess config

Use this in the root if you are on an Apache setup.

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/web
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /web/$1 [NC,L]

Created by Ash Whiting

Thanks to: Wordplate for their excellent ACF Builder module.