Bedrock vs Regular WordPress Install

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 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.
Daniel Strunk