Using Composer for easy WordPress Deployments

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There are many ways to manage a WordPress application. Fortunately, it is possible to use Composer with WordPress.

In this article, we will show how to use Composer with WordPress, so that you can easily maintain it, manage it and deploy it in different server environments.

That means that you will be able to install WordPress core, themes, plugins etc. as well as update and delete them when needed via Composer.

To achieve this, we will use the following tools:

Using Composer with WordPress

Our first goal is to download the WordPress core, the plugins and themes as versioned Composer dependencies.

So in order to use Composer with WordPress, we will first install Composer and then create a composer.json file in the root directory of our project:

{
    "repositories":[
        {
            "type":"composer",
            "url":"https://wpackagist.org"
        }
    ]
}

Since Composer uses Packagist by default as a package repository, we will need to tell Composer that we will need WPackagist instead.

Now we would be able to install public WordPress plugins and themes as Composer dependencies, for example like this:

{
    "require": {
        "wpackagist-plugin/akismet":"^4.1",
        "wpackagist-theme/twentytwenty":"*"
    }
}

Next, let's install the WordPress core via Composer. We will be using John P Bloch's mirror of WordPress Core to achieve that:

{
	"require": {
	        "johnpbloch/wordpress": ">=5.4"
	},
	"extra": {
	        "installer-paths": {
	            "wp-content/plugins/{$name}/": [
	                "type:wordpress-plugin"
	            ],
	            "wp-content/themes/{$name}/": [
	                "type:wordpress-theme"
	            ]
	        },
	        "wordpress-install-dir": "wordpress"
	},
	"repositories": [
	        {
	            "type": "composer",
	            "url": "https://wpackagist.org"
	        }
	]
}

In the require section, we added the dependency. Next, in the extra section, we told Composer where to look for themes and plugins. Lastly, we defined the WordPress installation directory to be WordPress.

Read full article here: https://time2hack.com/composer-wordpress-deployment


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