University of Toronto Wordpress Distro

This repository is a skeletal framework that holds a group of wordpress cusotmizations, collected in a simple Wordpress plugin and at least one Wordpress theme. It also contains a simple bash script, init_distro.sh, that will download and unpack both wordpress and a series of plugins, including especially CCTM – the Custom Content Type Manager plugin – on which our own plugin and themes rely heavily. Finally, it includes a JSON-formatted file containing the definitions for a set of “Custom Post Types” that extend Wordpress’s native capabilities in important ways.

Installing the Distro

To install the distro simply clone this repository (git clone use-the-url-in-the-bar-above), and then cd into the root directory of the repository and run init_distro.sh:

bash init_distro.sh

The script, which is heavily commented, will download and unpack Wordpress as well as the plugins specified in the file wp-content/uot-vars.php. During the install process, all of the plugins will be activated, and the custom content type definitions activated (can’t load them on install time yet – don’t understand why not!).

Files and Functions

• init-distro.sh: This bash script will get all the git submodules (a simple, poorly-written plugin with helper functions, and a similarly poorly-written theme), download wordpress as well as the plugins listed in wp-content/uotvars.php, and add secret keys to wp-config.php.
• wp-content/uotvars.php: keeps variables we will need later in the install process. YOU MUST MODIFY THIS FILE BEFORE RUNNING init-distro.sh !!
• wp-content/var-translator.php: allows the php arrays in uotvars.php to be used by init-disro.sh. Ensures that install.php and init-distro.php get the same set of plugins.
• wp-content/install.php: overwrites the wp builtin function wp_install_defaults to install a more reasonable feature set on initialization.

Automating Apache setup, cloning for multiple sites

If you want even more automation, try modifying the simple bash script here.

Help me out!

This is a primitive work-in-progress by a second-rate coder. If you’re interested in helping out, I welcome contributions – please add issues t the github issue queue or clone the repo and submit a pull request. Thanks!