What is WPZest?

A wrapper around the wonderful YeoPress generator. In addition to the features offered by YeoPress it lets you:

• setup deployment to staging and production servers
• scaffold plugins based on the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

Deployment is handled via WP-CLI-Deploy.

Installation

In your terminal:

npm install -g yo generator-wpzest

WP-CLI-Deploy requires WP-CLI. If you don't already have it, instructions on how to install it can be found here. If you are experiencing issues and happen to be running MAMP then this should prove useful.

Usage

yo wpzest

This will run the YeoPress generator and once that is finished it will ask you if you'd like to configure staging and productions servers.

yo wpzest --skip-yp

If you are already using YeoPress and just want to setup deployment then you can achive that with the --skip-yp flag.

NOTE: If you have modified wp-config.php and .gitignore after using YeoPress and use WPZest after that, WPZest may overwrite these files. Make sure you check them.

yo wpzest:pluginbp <pluign-name>

Scaffolds a plugin based on the WP Plugin Boilerplate in your pluigns folder folder.

Templates

When installing wordpress through YeoPress the default theme is setup to use RequireJS. If this is not your cup of tea there is a fork of this template maintained here. In order to use it when prompted for the GitHub username replace the default value with citrusmist.

It doesn't rely on RequireJS but will require you to load scripts using wp_enqueue_script in your dev environment.

Resources

• Slides from Front End Workflow Automation for WordPress Theme and Plugin Development talk