In this section, we will go through the config.yml
step by step as I will explain the options available.
The configuration file is split into five sections:
- Installation
- Wordpress
- Themes
- Plugins
- WPDistillery Setup
- In
wpversion
you can define what WordPress version to install. - With
wplocale
you can select what language to download and install WordPress. Use language Codes likeen_US
oren_GB
. - Add your timezone as string to
timezone
. See List of Supported Timezones. admin
defines the default admin user. Set your preferred username, password and email.db
contains the access data to connect WordPress to the database on the Virtual Machine. By default (when using ScotchBox) no changes are needed here.
# INSTALLATION
#################################################################
# WordPress version
wpversion: latest
# language/timezone
wplocale: en_US
timezone: America/New_York
# admin user settings
admin:
user: admin
password: admin
email: [email protected]
# scotch box db access
db:
name: scotchbox
user: root
pass: root
prefix: wp_
- In
wpsettings
you can define WP-Options like url, title, description, the permalink_structure or edit the default image sizes. - Set
page_on_front
to true to setfrontpage_name
as default front page. - If you set
convert_smilies
false, smilies wont be converted to image-smilies automatically. - Note: To edit the url you use to access the website within your browser edit
config.vm.hostname
in the Vagrantfile from Scotch Box.
# SETTINGS
#################################################################
wpsettings:
url: wpdistillery.vm
title: Example
description: Example Description
permalink_structure: /%postname%/
# default image sizes
thumbnail_width: 150
thumbnail_height: 150
medium_width: 300
medium_height: 300
large_width: 1024
large_height: 1024
# use page as frontpage
page_on_front: true
frontpage_name: Example Front Page
# automatic converttion of smilies
convert_smilies: false
Now you can install a (starter-) theme if you want. Simply add the name and download-url of the theme. WP Distillery will then download, unzip and install the theme. If you do not leave rename
empty, it will also rename the installed theme folder. By default, WPDistillery will also delete the delete the default WordPress themes defined at remove
. If you don't want this, just leave it empty: remove: ""
.
# THEMES
#################################################################
# install a custom theme via url, rename it and remove default themes
themes:
name: WPSeed
url: "https://github.com/flurinduerst/WPSeed/archive/master.zip"
rename: ""
remove:
- twentyfifteen
- twentysixteen
- twentyseventeen
You can select what plugins you want WP Distillery to install for you. Split into two sections you can define which plugins to download and install, and which to also activate. By default this section contains a few recommendations. The plugin identifier must be the same as it's slug on the WordPress plugin catalog (ex: disable-comments = https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments/)
# PLUGINS
#################################################################
# plugins to install & activate
plugins_active:
- disable-comments
- duplicate-post
- enable-media-replace
- favicon-by-realfavicongenerator
- regenerate-thumbnails
- simple-page-ordering
- user-switching
- google-sitemap-generator
# plugins to install
plugins_inactive:
#development
- custom-post-type-ui
- search-and-replace
- capability-manager-enhanced
#administration
- adminimize
- admin-menu-editor
- admin-menu-reorder
- wordpress-seo
#security/backup
- wp-security-audit-log
- backwpup
If you want to install custom or premium plugins you can simply write down the download-url instead of the name. Make sure to add quotes:
plugins_active:
- "https://example.com/plugins/awesome_plugin.zip&key=31071988"
Maybe you don't want WP Distillery to install a theme? Or you prefer keeping the default posts and files it comes with? Within the setup options at the bottom of the file you can tell WP Distillery which tasks to perform. Simply set those you wan't to skip to false
.
wp
: install WordPress coresettings
: set custom WordPress settings (Note: the value definedtimezone
is also considered a setting)themes
: install and activate the theme defined above and delete defined default themesplugins
: install the plugins listedcleanup
: delete WordPress defaults as followedcomment
: the default commentposts
: the default postfiles
:readme.html
,license.txt
# WPDISTILLERY SETUP
####################################################################
# if you don't want the setup to run all tasks set them to false
setup:
wp: true
settings: true
themes: true
plugins: true
cleanup: true
comment: true
posts: true
files: true