Lando Wordpress site template

A no-frills Wordpress project template for theme development using Lando v3.x.

You can add any theme to it.

It's meant to be used with ACF Pro, so that dependency is baked in.

Installation

1. Install Lando 3.x and its prerequisites
2. Clone this repo and cd to the repo folder
3. Create an .env file and add:
   1. your ACF Pro key here as ACF_PRO_KEY
4. Replace lando-wp-site-template and lando-wp-site-theme with your preferred name across the project (.gitignore, .lando.yml)
5. Run lando start
6. Once finished, either continue with configuring the WP install manually by opening the site URL displayed in CLI or run lando wpinstall — this will perform an automated install of Wordpress, activate all plugins and install a default theme (twentytwentytwo).

Next add your own theme in the mix and install it to the themes folder. Keep in mind that the name of the theme should be same with what you renamed lando-wp-site-theme to.

Installation info and default credentials

Core Wordpress is installed into /wp folder, and all content goes into /wp-content. Couldn't be simpler!

Default credentials are the same as in the original Lando Wordpress recipe by default.

Adding plugins

Add plugins to composer.json (Wordpress.org plugins can be added using https://wpackagist.org/). Run lando composer update to update plugins or install new ones.

New plugins installed via composer won't be automatically enabled to avoid issues, you will have to enable them yourself.

Installation on server

Add a wp-config.php file to a parent folder of the installation and define database connection constants, salts, table prefix there.

Also add a WP_CONTENT_DIR constant to the wp-config.php file, pointing to the /wp-content folder (the path must be absolute), and WP_CONTENT_URL with an absolute URL (eg. https://example.com/wp-content).

Don't forget to require_once composer's autoload.php and load .env via Dotenv class.

You can omit the "Happy publishing!" part.

You should also add an index.php to the parent folder with an updated path to wp-blog-header.php file.

Connecting to MySQL externally

Use port 32862 to connect to the database externally (eg. with Sequel Ace).