Setup process for a theme managed on WPE, without tracking entire WP install

clean.sh

#!/bin/bash

rm -rf *
git reset --hard HEAD

setup.sh

#!/bin/bash

#######################################################
#
# Wordpress installation is ignored by git. 
# Run this script to download and install WordPress.
#
#######################################################

# WordPress version
VERSION="4.9.4"

# Theme name
THEME_NAME="theme-name"

# WP Engine Install Name
# The production URL should resemble:
# http://$WPE_INSTALL_NAME.wpengine.com/
WPE_INSTALL_NAME="name-of-site"

# WP Engine PHPMyAdmin Link
WPE_PHP_URL="https://my.wpengine.com/installs/$WPE_INSTALL_NAME/phpmyadmin"

# Theme Path
THEME_PATH="./wp-content/themes/$THEME_NAME/"

# Terminal colors
DEFAULT=$(tput setaf 7)
RED=$(tput setaf 1)
GREEN=$(tput setaf 2)
YELLOW=$(tput setaf 3)
BLUE=$(tput setaf 4)

# Download WordPress and decompress, assumes top level directory from archive to be stripped
printf "\n> Downloading WordPress and decompressing ... \n\n"
curl https://wordpress.org/wordpress-$VERSION.tar.gz | tar xzf - -C ./ --strip 1; 
printf "\n\n${GREEN}done${DEFAULT}"

# Remove unmaintained core plugin and themes and setup config
printf "\n\n> Removing untracked WP Core themes and plugins ... "
rm -rf wp-content/themes/twenty*; 
rm wp-content/plugins/hello.php
printf "\n\n> Creating wp-config.php and .htaccess from templates ... "
cp wp-config-local.php wp-config.php
cat > .htaccess << EOF
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
EOF
printf "\n\n${GREEN}done${DEFAULT}"
cd $THEME_PATH
NPM_VERSION=$(npm -v) 
printf "\n\n> NPM version: ${YELLOW}$NPM_VERSION${DEFAULT}" 
printf "\n\n> Installing package.json ... "

# Fix for Mac OS
# Remove next two lines on real unix or linux servers
echo > /usr/local/bin/ldconfig
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ldconfig
npm i
rm -f /usr/local/bin/ldconfig
printf "\n${GREEN}done${DEFAULT}\n"

cat <<- EOF

-----------------------------------
${GREEN}I'M ALL SHOOK UP. Mm mm mm
${DEFAULT}-----------------------------------
1. Download the sql dump to the project root.
   ${BLUE}$WPE_PHP_URL${DEFAULT}
2. Import locally using ${YELLOW}lando db-import snapshot_$WPE_INSTALL_NAME.sql${DEFAULT}
3. Download wp-content/uploads from WP Engine SFTP
4. Run grunt from inside of the theme root.
-----------------------------------
EOF

General notes:

• These are kept in ./private/scripts and only run from within the project/git root.
• WP Engine does not allow remote requests for the database or uploads, so those must be manually obtained from the WP Engine Project Portal.