How to install dependencies with Composer (while ignoring your cached local versions). Typically, we shouldn’t have to do this but if we’re trying to recreate problems someone else is having it can be helpful.
You can tell composer to install dependencies as if you’re using a specific version of PHP. This can be helpful if you’re running composer outside of your virtual machine (and your virtual machine has the correct PHP version but your host machine does not).
Previously, I described my process in loading WordPress.org plugins via composer, however, a number of plugins I use are private plugins (either because they are commercial plugins I’ve purchased or internal plugins I’ve written). One can use composer to load these plugins by doing two things: Create a repository for the plugin (this can be […]
You can setup WordPress in a sub-directory using composer, thanks to John P Bloch‘s WordPress Core Installer. Below I’ve outlined the bare minimum steps to get this running. Step 1: composer.json Create a composer.json in the root of your project with the following content. { “require”: { “johnpbloch/wordpress”: “*” } } Step 2: Execute composer […]
I’ve recently been introduced to managing WordPress.org plugins via Composer. This makes it more convenient when excluding plugins from your working repository. Composer is capable of doing far more than managing plugins but at this point, that is the extent of how I’m using it. This allows me to exclude my plugins via .gitignore yet […]
