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Scott Walkinshaw

Scott Walkinshaw is a full-stack web developer who's trying to drag WordPress into 2018 and help people modernize their development workflow. He lives in Toronto and likes sports almost as much as coding.

Trellis 1.0.0 Released

January 8, 2019

Trellis 1.0.0 has finally been released. It's been a long and exciting path since the very first commit on Apr 16, 2014 (back when it was first called bedrock-ansible!). That was so long ago the project started on Ubuntu 14.04 and PHP 5.5.

Simplifying Trellis

March 29, 2016

Trellis now has a slimmer configuration file. Lots of settings have been moved outside of the configs and have intelligently set proper defaults.

Trellis Adds Let’s Encrypt Integration

March 22, 2016

Trellis now comes with automated Let’s Encrypt integration for free SSL certificates and the best HTTPS setup. Scores an A+ on the SSL Labs Test.

WordPress Password Security Follow-up

March 21, 2016

Follow up to the 'Improving WordPress Password Security' post. If you’re on PHP 5.5+ then use our bcrypt plugin to improve your site’s security.

Improving WordPress Password Security

March 1, 2016

We’ve released the wp-password-bcrypt plugin to improve WordPress password security by using bcrypt instead of insecure MD5 password hashing.

Trellis Updates: 0.9.1 Release

August 18, 2015

Trellis 0.9.1 introduces MailHog for capturing emails during development, customizable timezones, and bug fixes.

Introducing Trellis

July 7, 2015

Trellis, formerly bedrock-ansible, is our latest project. Use Trellis to create and manage more professional server environments almost automatically.

Deploying Bedrock Sites

April 13, 2015

Trellis now has built-in deploys instead of needing to use Capistrano. We’ve preserved the best part of Capistrano while keeping it simpler.

Bedrock 1.1.1 Updates

March 18, 2014

Bedrock 1.1.1 introduced a web subdirectory for your WordPress application, auto-generating .env files, and WordPress Packagist namespaces.

Introducing Bedrock

December 18, 2013

Bedrock is a modern WordPress stack. Better folder structure, dependency management with Composer, easy WordPress configuration and more.

Deploying WordPress with Capistrano

December 7, 2013

An in-depth introduction to deploying WordPress with Capistrano. If you cross your fingers before a deploy, then this screencast is for you.

Twelve-Factor WordPress App

November 5, 2013

Turning a WordPress site into a Twelve-Factor App. If you're going to be creating complex websites with WordPress, then you need to get serious about it.

Twelve-Factor WordPress App #12: Admin Processes

November 5, 2013

Factor #12: Run admin/management tasks as one-off processes. Write custom WP-CLI commands to guarantee you'll have access to your WP environment.

Twelve-Factor WordPress App #11: Logs

November 5, 2013

One of WordPress' biggest failings is not providing better logs. You can investigate implementing your own logging by using WP hooks and actions.

Twelve-Factor WordPress App #10: Dev/Prod Parity

November 5, 2013

Factor #10: Dev/prod parity. Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible. It’s all about automating your setup.

Twelve-Factor WordPress App #9: Disposability

November 5, 2013

Twelve-Factor WordPress App #8: Concurrency

November 5, 2013

Twelve-Factor WordPress App #7: Port Binding

November 5, 2013

Factor #7: Port binding. Use Nginx + PHP-FPM in production for more flexibility and much better performance over Apache + mod_php.

Twelve-Factor WordPress App #6: Processes

November 5, 2013

Twelve-factor processes are stateless and share-nothing. Issues you'll run into with making sure WordPress is stateless: sessions and uploaded files.

Twelve-Factor WordPress App #5: Build, Release, Run

November 5, 2013

Factor #5: Build, release, run. You shouldn't be deploying code to production if you can't reliably rollback a deploy.

Twelve-Factor WordPress App #4: Backing Services

November 5, 2013

Factor #4: Backing services. The important outcome of treating backing services as attached resources is that it's mostly taken care of by a proper config.

Twelve-Factor WordPress App #3: Config

November 5, 2013

The twelve-factor app stores config in environment variables. See how to take wp-config.php and store configuration as environment variables.

Twelve-Factor WordPress App #2: Dependencies

November 5, 2013

The dependency system for PHP is Composer. In the world of Composer, the dependency declaration manifest is a composer.json file in the project root.

Twelve-Factor WordPress App #1: Codebase

November 5, 2013

Your WordPress site/app codebase needs to be tracked in a version control system. Git is usually the de facto choice and you can't go wrong with it.

Timing WordPress Requests

October 1, 2013

By using the WordPress functions `timer_start` and `timer_stop`, you can setup quick performance tests without setting up a full benchmarking test suite.

WordPress Plugins with Composer

September 2, 2013

See how to create Composer packages for custom WordPress plugins, along with private plugins and 3rd party plugins with the composer.json file.

Using Composer With WordPress

August 20, 2013

This screencast gives an in-depth introduction to dependency management in PHP using Composer and more importantly, why you should use it with WordPress.

Using Composer with WordPress

August 18, 2013

An introduction to Composer and how to manage WordPress core, plugins, and even themes with it. Composer is a dependency manager for PHP.