Installing Wordpress on Orchestra

1. Fork our orchestra-io/example-wordress repo and clone it to your local machine. Note: please ensure that your fork is private as you will be adding DB credentials!
2. Add any additional plugins or themes you want.
3. Sign up for a free MySQL database (We recommend Xeround's).
4. Copy wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php, edit the database details and change the "Authentication Keys and Salts" (You can generate these using Wordpress' API).
5. Open a terminal and navigate to the Wordpress directory on your local machine. Then run:
   • git add .
   • git commit -am "Added extra themes, plugins and modified config"
   • git push origin master
6. Deploy your wordpress repo as a basic or elastic app on Orchestra. Ensure the index file is set to index.php instead of the default public/index.php.
7. Visit your newly deployed app and complete the installation process, which will setup your database.
8. Enable the 'Amazon S3 for Wordpress', 'Orchestra.io Upload to Temp' and 'WP-Mail-SMTP' plugins.
9. We suggest you configure better permalink structures. Go to Settings -> Permalinks, choose Custom permalinks and add: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ . Ignore the .htaccess warning as we use Nginx.
10. Go to S3 and add a bucket. Click properties, then add more permissions. Allow authenticated users all permissions and everyone view permissions. Configure in Wordpress S3 settings. Note: You must have an S3 bucked created before adding credentials to settings.
    • Host name settings: unchecked
    • File uploads: checked
    • Expire header: checked
    • File permissions: checked
11. Setup a free SMTP account (We recommend SendGrid) and configure it in Settings -> Email.
12. Done!

Notes

• Plugins, themes and updates cannot be done using Wordpress' internal system.