Wordpress Automation

What?

This project purpose is to reduce boostraping process of a new wordpress instance. It allows to create,manage wordpress instances in a simple way.

Why?

Create a new wordpress is a time consuming and boring process. It has to be a better way which automates all of repetitive tasks.

How?

Use various technologies in order to achieve mentioned above. Run wordpresses in Docker (https://www.docker.com/) environment is more secure then just put into some apache server. Further, containerization technology makes deployment more easier too. Rest API is simplifying to manage wordpresses and hide all the technical details from developer. In addition, it makes able to attach any front-end application to it. At the time of writing there is only one front-end which is a terminal application.

Features

These have been done:

• Fully installed wordpress with themes and plugins less than one minute
• More secure environment because of containerization technology
• Flexible API, you can attach any frontend

There is a lots of room for improvement:

• Managing plugins and themes on running wordpress instance
• Web or desktop GIU
• Implement deployment process through FTP or even AWS
• Real-time metrics from instances
• Backup and restore
• ... and more

Technical details

This section required some technical backround. The project has two main parts:

• Backend
• Frontend

Backend

It responsible for wordpress project creation, docker service orchestration and provide nice API for managing all of this. It can be installed any linux server which has docker and nodejs.

Requirements:

• nodejs 11
• docker engine
• docker-compose

Used technologies:

• Docker (https://www.docker.com/) for handle containers
• NodeJS (https://nodejs.org/en/)
• Fastify provides the API (https://www.fastify.io/)
• Traefik creates dynamic routing (https://containo.us/traefik/) e.g. test.hostname or shoes.hostname. that is mean no need for web server like apache

Frontend

Frontend communicates backend via rest API. There is one frontend for now which is an terminal application and written in React. Supports MacOS and linux.

Reguirements:

• nodejs 11

Used technologies:

• React (https://reactjs.org/)
• Ink (https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink#readme)

Create a Wordpress instance step by step

It will be shown how project kickstart works.

1. Create project structure

Run this command: wp-manager-cli project kickstart:

Now, project folders has been generated (on machine what runs backend)

2. Create docker services

This step will be done automatically.

Docker services up and running:

Or get statuses with frontend:

Wordpress has been created:

3. Install Wordpress

The next step in terminal application will install the instance without any clicks on the web browser.

Wordpress has installed:

Admin page (with default plugins and themes):

4. Install plugins and themes

Final step is installing desired plugins and themes. It is possible to organize plugins and themes to packages e.g. E-commerce, Blog1, Blog1 ... etc. You can choose from this during kickstarting the Wordpress project.

Choose from pre-defined packages:

You can select multiple plugins from previously choosed package to install:

You can select one theme to be applied:

Whole installation process has been done:

Resulted Wordpress site with the selected theme:

Admin page with installed plugins: