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WP Composer Auto Updates

WordPress MU-Plugin to enable maintenance and security updates when the site uses version control and DISALLOW_FILE_MODS.

When DISALLOW_FILE_MODS is not set or false, WordPress will behave as if there was no VCS: plugins and themes can be installed or updated from the dashboard. In this scenario, composer.lock will get out of sync. It can be used to hand-off a project to a client.

Installation

This package can be installed in the mu-plugins directory with composer/installers. As WordPress only load php files inside mu-plugins directory, it needs to be included required by a file or autoloaded using roots/bedrock-autoloader or similar solutions.

Example of a composer.json to manage a WordPress site with Composer:

{
  "require": {
    "php": ">=7.0",
    "benoitchantre/wp-composer-auto-updates": "^1.0",
    "composer/installers": "^1.0", 
    "johnpbloch/wordpress": "^5.5", 
    "roots/bedrock-autoloader": "^1.0"
  },
  "extra": {
    "wordpress-install-dir": "public/wp",
    "installer-paths": {
      "public/wp-content/mu-plugins/{$name}": [
        "type:wordpress-muplugin"
      ],
      "public/wp-content/plugins/{$name}/": [
        "type:wordpress-plugin"
      ],
      "public/wp-content/themes/{$name}/": [
        "type:wordpress-theme"
      ]
    }
  }
}