Creating a new site

Initial Setup#

• Create a new repo on Github
  • Set Owner to ed-digital, and name your repo like some-client-name.
  • Set Repository Template to ed-digital/eddev-starter-theme
  • Hit Create repository
• Create a new site in Local, on your computer.
  • Use the default settings
  • Be sure to use ed_admin as the username, and create a secure password using 1Pass or similar, and the email address should be web@ed.com.au
  • Save the username and password to 1Pass.
• Install the following plugins:
  • Advanced Custom Fields Pro (download) (login details in 1Pass)
  • Add b3JkZXJfaWQ9NDA3NDN8dHlwZT1kZXZlbG9wZXJ8ZGF0ZT0yMDE0LTA5LTI3IDA4OjUwOjIx as the key for ACF Pro under 'Custom Fields > Updates'
  • Yoast SEO — install from plugins dashboard
  • Nested Pages — install from plugins dashboard
  • Admin Menu Editor — install from plugins dashboard (use this to hide unused sidebar items, and tidy up the menu for clients.)
• Under Settings -> General, set Timezone to Sydney (or the appropriate timezone).
• Make sure that all the installed plugins have been activated.
• Clone your newly created theme to wp-content/themes/, making sure that the repo name and the theme folder name are identical.
• Run the following commands inside the theme folder
  • composer update
  • yarn
  • yarn add --dev eddev
  • yarn setup
• Activate the theme under Appearance > Themes
• Run yarn dev

Initial Flywheel Setup#

• Create a new site on Flywheel
  • Select 'My Organisation'
  • The username and password are irrelevant, as they'll soon be overridden with your locally created details.
• Once complete, restart Local, and do an initial push to the new site, deploying to 'Production' with 'Include Database' selected.