WPcap

WPcap is a set of capistrano recipes designed to deploy wordpress instaliations to ubuntu 12.04 and up. It provides database and asset sync tasks, per deploy mysql backups, a helper appication to setup a brand new wordpress install ready to be deployed.

WPcap is opinionated, and currently reasonably narrow minded.

WPcap expectations

• Local Macine is a Mac running MAMP (for now)
• Remote Server is a brand new Ubuntu Server
• Passwordless access to remote server has be established (ssh keys) Capistrano Requirment
• Using a SMTP Mailer Plugin for E-Mail delivery ie. wp-mail-smtp

WPcap server configuration

• nginx stable

• php5-fpm stable

• mysql > 5.5

• memcached

• varnish (Optional)

• Core

  • git
  • debconf-utils
  • python-software-properties

Install it:

gem install wpcap

Create a new projet

wpcap create mynewproject

Convert an existing project to WPcap (Incomplete)

wpcap build PATH-TO-WORDPRESS-FOLDER

Build a remote server

cap deploy:install

Setup a remote server for this wordpress install

cap deploy:setup

Deploy your latest code to the server

cap deploy

Push Local Database and Assets to remote server (will update aboslute URLS in wordpress post content)

cap db:push

Pull Remote Database and Assets to local enviroment (will update aboslute URLS in wordpress post content)

cap db:pull

List Backups and Resotre

cap backups

• Covert a predone wordpress install into a wpcap style directory
• Allow users to customize templates by placing them in their config directory (think devise generators for views)
• Automate mysql_secure_installation
• Offsite (s3) Backups
• Backup Asset Directory
• Add Sendmail Receipe and Config (Maybe?)

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request