Bedrock vs Regular WordPress Installs
A better structure for your WordPress installation.
.@rootswp https://t.co/6xT02jiH64 professionalizes WordPress development and should be the default starting point for any WordPress site.
— Robbert vt Westende (@piepkrak) May 12, 2015
Been using the Bedrock stack (https://t.co/I2dj7LwAFv) for all my WP dev over the last four months. Can't recommend it enough.
— Chris Waters (@christhesoul) August 5, 2014
| Bedrock | Standard WordPress |
WordPlate | WP-Stack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Separate configs per environment | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Environment variables | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Enhanced security | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Custom wp-content directory | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Composer for managing WordPress installation | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Composer for managing WordPress plugins and themes | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
| PSR-2 coding standards | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
| mu-plugins autoloader | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Bedrock’s structure
site/
├── config/
│ ├── environments/
│ │ ├── development.php
│ │ ├── staging.php
│ │ └── production.php
│ └── application.php # Primary wp-config.php
├── vendor/ # Composer dependencies
└── web/ # Virtual host document root
├── app/ # WordPress content directory
│ ├── mu-plugins/
│ ├── plugins/
│ ├── themes/
│ └── uploads/
└── wp/ # WordPress core
Standard WordPress structure
site/
├── index.php
├── license.txt
├── readme.html
├── wp-activate.php
├── wp-admin/
├── wp-blog-header.php
├── wp-comments-post.php
├── wp-config-sample.php
├── wp-content/
│ ├── index.php
│ ├── plugins/
│ └── themes/
├── wp-cron.php
├── wp-includes/
├── wp-links-opml.php
├── wp-load.php
├── wp-login.php
├── wp-mail.php
├── wp-settings.php
├── wp-signup.php
├── wp-trackback.php
└── xmlrpc.php
Better security
Bedrock’s web root is isolated to limit access to non-web files. Bedrock also has more secure passwords through the wp-password-bcrypt plugin.
Bedrock professionalizes WordPress development and should be the default starting point for any WordPress site.
Bedrock is doing a huge service to the WordPress community, and I can see it being adopted as the standard for WordPress development. Hopefully as more people adopt it, the developer community at large will view WordPress sites on similar footing as more "professional" platforms.
Colin OBrien