Wpacked

Overview

WPacked aims to provide an easy-to-maintain and deployable development starter kit for WordPress. It eliminates the need for XAMP/MAMP or virtual machines, providing a clean and pure local environment. The project focuses on simplicity, version control, and quick setup.

Features

• Breaking Change Announcement: Dropping SQLite Support: The project has decided to drop SQLite support due to development stalling and lack of significant advantages for quickstart setup.
• Heroku/Dokku Ready: WPacked can be easily deployed to Heroku or Heroku-like environments, such as Dokku. The project is automatically built and runs under Nginx with optimized gzip and asset caching.
• Git-friendly: WPacked is designed to be compatible with Git for easy version control and collaboration.
• Dependency Management via Composer: Composer is used to manage dependencies for the project, allowing for easy installation and updates.
• Containerizable: WPacked can be containerized using Docker, providing a realistic environment that mirrors production setups.

Summary

WPacked is a development starter kit for WordPress that focuses on simplicity and quick setup. It eliminates the need for complex setups such as XAMP/MAMP or virtual machines and provides a clean local environment. The project has recently dropped SQLite support in favor of Docker for easier and more realistic local stack setup. WPacked can be easily deployed to Heroku or similar environments and is compatible with Git for version control. Dependency management is handled through Composer, and the project can be containerized using Docker.