Automate your Workflow: Local WordPress Install

March 30, 2013

Lately, I’ve been pretty obsessed with streamlining my workflow, which means writing scripts (read: building tools to do stuff for me). They say that the best programmers are the laziest; I can’t vouch for being a great programmer, but I can proudly say that I am pretty lazy.

So, I’ve decided to start cleaning up my tools and posting them here as I make them. Use at your own risk!

We do a lot of WordPress sites, and downloading the latest WordPress install can be tedious. Navigating to http://wordpress.org/download/, clicking the “Download” link… Agh!! Too many clicks. Even if you’re awesome and use wget, it’s still a pain to move all those files around. So I made a script.

\#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 "
    exit 1
fi

if [ -e "$1" ]; then
    echo "Pathspec '$1' exists."
    exit 1
fi

wordpresstemp="wordpress-latest-$RANDOM"
zipfile="$wordpresstemp.zip"

echo "Downloading latest WordPress..."

curl "http://wordpress.org/latest.zip" > $zipfile
unzip $zipfile -d "$wordpresstemp"/ > /dev/null
rm $zipfile

mv "$wordpresstemp"/wordpress "$1"

rm -r "$wordpresstemp"

echo "Created a new WordPress install in '$1'!"

Just save this in a file called wp_install, and put it in your $PATH directory of choice.

Also available as a gist.

Super simple:

$ cd webroot
$ wp_install new-wordpress

Done!