tarmo888/wordpress-heroku-composer

Wordpress CMS boilerplate that is deployable to Heroku cloud platform using Composer packages.

Use Heroku Button or Bash commands for deploying.

Deploy via Heroku Button

Deploy via Bash command line

Create app folder and create-project.

mkdir new-app-folder
cd new-app-folder
composer create-project --stability dev --no-interaction tarmo888/wordpress-heroku-composer .

Alternatively (if composer create-project didn't work), you can use git clone too make shallow copy

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/tarmo888/wordpress-heroku-composer.git . && rm -rf .git

Login to Heroku and create new app (make sure to git init first).

git init
heroku login
heroku apps:create new-app-name --buildpack heroku/php --region eu

Add the following add-ons.

heroku addons:add jawsdb-maria:kitefin
heroku addons:add heroku-redis:hobby-dev
heroku addons:add sendgrid:starter
heroku addons:add papertrail:choklad
heroku addons:add scheduler:standard

Set your AWS credentials.

heroku config:set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
heroku config:set AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=

Disable WP Cron to call it from Scheduler instead? (0 or 1). If you set DISABLE_WP_CRON=1 then add this to Heroku Scheduler for every 10 minutes: "php /app/cms/wp-cron.php"

heroku config:set DISABLE_WP_CRON=0

Force login and admin to HTTPS? (0 or 1)

heroku config:set FORCE_SSL=0

Visit Wordpress hash generator and set following values https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/

heroku config:set AUTH_KEY=
heroku config:set SECURE_AUTH_KEY=
heroku config:set LOGGED_IN_KEY=
heroku config:set NONCE_KEY=
heroku config:set AUTH_SALT=
heroku config:set SECURE_AUTH_SALT=
heroku config:set LOGGED_IN_SALT=
heroku config:set NONCE_SALT=

Deploy your app to Heroku.

git add .
git commit -am "init"
git push heroku master