Better WordPress Environment and Workflow with Bedrock and Local by Flywheel 

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Been waiting for so long for some quality content on modern wordpress development! Bravo @wpcasts

Hey Alex, if possible, would love to see a video on your desk setup. Thanks.

Bravo! Fantastic video. It's time to get this jump because I want improve my knowledge of WordPress and it's management!

Very informative, thanks for doing it. We need more of these!

best resource i have found to date....100% great work! didn't know about bedrock and WP Dev environment... think i need to learn more and get this up and running...merci beacoup!

Alex, Thanks for this video. Try to share the remote deployment part in future videos. Regards

amazing stuff!! I work with local all the time and I've been wondering how to achieve this. now I feel confident to try it out. I would really like a video explaining how to use private plugins. would be interested in a video on how to achieve this with devKinsta as well

Great tut. I am writing my own plugins so I would like to see how you load/update not public ones. Also I would like to use autoupdate of public plugins in dev but not staging or production. Thanks Alex

Excellent tutorial. Thank you!

I've recently started using WP after years of hating it / didn't understand it. Love this video, so for the novice. You can push everything from the folder to you hosting and it will be 1:1

Can you do a video on completely automating a website spinning to AWS along with theme, plugins and so on. Also how could we manage users/authentication/plugin versioning etc to many websites which are not related as multisitr setup?

Hey Alex! Great video, as always. One production question: have you ever tried Trellis? I'm in a 2 way indecision between it and Local by Flywhell and I didn't find any reference on your channel. Since it is a Bedrock "brother" you made me wonder.. Thanks for your time!

Thanks - very helpful (I'm going to give bedrock a try right now). I do have one question, though. When I'm ready to go live and push this a hosting account -- what do you recommend? I personally use Cloudways (although I am considering giving Siteground a try). Either way, how would I sync this local site up to either Cloudways or Siteground?

Hey Alex, thanks so much! I'm looking forward to begin building sites in Bedrock+Local using this and with the guide from Clay in Local forums (to do this in Local Lightning). Kinsta and Digital Ocean are known hosts for Bedrock. Will any host work with Bedrock too? I have clients on Siteground and WPEngine, and would love your take on deploying to alternative hosts like those.

This channel is pure gold. I've been a WP developer for four years but mostly working alone, so your videos have really been helping me fill in gaps in my knowledge. Thank you! Edit: If anyone gets stuck trying to install Composer on Mac, here is a good tutorial: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pXV7XGiDvLs.html

Alex dude. You are doing a wonderful job. Thanks for the content. I would be very interested in seeing how you manage these different environments that bedrock comes with and how you manage not only the dependencies through the composer but also the migrations from staging to live, from live to local, with wp-cli, Capistrano or other deployment tool, bash scripts, git management. I am very interested in seeing other people's workflow and I am certain yours will be very interesting! Keep it up man.

Thanks for great explanation.

Will you be doing a video on Roots Sage?

hi, thanks for the video...could you do another explaining your deployment pipeline?

Great video, thank you sir!

What is your terminal app? It doesn't look like a default macOS terminal, a bit more straightforward. Thanks for this one and all the other videos! So good.

Great Work. Will try bedrock very soon.

thanks man ! very helpful

Great video. Thanks! For adding a custom underscores theme, would you just add it to the folder manually (copy it into the themes folder)? I'd be interested to see how you would integrate browser-sync & gulp into this workflow. I've just started using Laravel Valet w/ MySQL to spin up WordPress sites. It's really fast!

Thank you for the great video! It helps me in my WP business! :)

thaks a lot! very helpful!

Great video. What is the advantage of installing a plugin using 'composer require' vs the WP dashboard UI?

Sir, the information in your videos is really rich but i feel like the information provided should be complete. Thanks for providing videos.

I love your Wordpress tutorials for developers. When creating a new bedrock project I understand you use the composer create-project roots/bedrock bedrock command. Is there a way to add a customized composer.json file with custom themes and plugins and still get the correct directory structure and the latest version of bedrock?

Hi Alex, Can U Make a video with Bedrock and installing Private themes and Private Plugin, that can buy from Envato

I'd love to see one one how you handle private plugins in Bedrock! Quality stuff man. Subs += 1

Hi, great video and something I'm trying to master is using bedrock. Just wondered how does the Flywheel file structure compare to something like Laragons' file structure (its similar in structure to Wampserver or Xamp). Where is the 'Local files' directory that you show in the video in Flywheel compared to the www folder in Laragon or Wampserver? I'm confused where we need to install the bedrock directory. After that everything else is pretty clear. Can you enlighten please.

Is the a possibility that you could do a video in Windows 10? I love this video but most Mac stuff is different from Windows, so I kinda get lost

Whats your flow to go from this to PROD ftp server(hostgator) and also add Github versioning?

Thank you for making it so simple :). Can you elaborate how you deal with premium themes? how do you install them? and please make more Bedrock workflow tutorials. keep it up

Do you have a video about installing a Sage template into bedrock?

Hey there, is there anyone who had an issue with the installation of the plugin via composer wpackagist? It's folder is in my file structure but the plugin is not listed in the wp backend plugins screen. Any thoughts on that?

If you're having problems adding the path to the .conf file, I hope this help you The root in your nginx.conf.hbs should look something like the following: root "/Users/claygriffiths/Local Sites/bedrock-test/app/bedrock/web";

Great video. Going to give it a try. Hey what plugins for PHP and Wordpress do you use with VS Code? I used to have a student copy of PHP Storm but I am no longer a student. Haven’t used VS Code for Wordpress dev yet.

In this video, you showed that we need to update the root of the site in site.conf file. I am using the latest version of local, looks like they are using handlebar files for conf/nginx/site.conf.hbs, I don't find where to change the root of the site. If you happened to use this set up now a days, please point me in the right direction. Thanks for this awesome video.

Can I install themes and plugins using bulit in installer or I need to download evetyhing through terminal ?

Hi, How I can upgrade php to install Sage Thank you in advance

How do you manage installing premium plugins and themes?

Nice.. when you want to upload to production you just have to upload everything and point the server to the web folder. Am i right?

So, after first view of Bedrock I have a question, is it created by laravel devs who switched on wp as clients wants wp, but they wanted it to look like a something normal instead of what it is?

How do you use composer and php inside of Hyper? Can only run it inside of the cmd :/

Hi, It could be nice a Videotutorial explain How could we work in a theme with BedRock!!!! .. Thanks for your work!!

Is a Bedrock's WP file structure compatible with WP CLI - for example, if I was to scaffold a new Post Type using WP CLI, would it recognise the updated file structure and know where to put the file?

For Windows users getting a 502: Go to your site.conf.hbs file under nginx and change root from {{root}} to "C:/Users/USERNAME/path/to/project/app/bedrock/web". Then restart local site.

yea, but what if you have custom themes or paid apps that you have a zip you need to install instead of that package manager? not all plugins and themes are accessible from wordpress areas

I appreciate this video. It helped me chug along, but right now it seems roots.io updated their file structure and now I'm stuck at "update the ngix.conf". But! That being said, this channel, your explanations are all very helpful.

Can you do a video on how we can install bedrock, wordpress and composer In Docker please? Thanks

Seems not to longer work unfortunatelly. :/ Will you update the video, please?

Hi Alex, What do you think about themosis framework ?

Where i can get that terminal?

How can you point this local by flywheel site to point to a remote mysql database?

How the DB migrations can be taken care while CI/CD?

Great tutorial. With the version 5.05 of Local, the nginx config file has moved to .hbs and it doesn't look like you can configure the server root path as described in your vid (root / app/bedrock/web/). Any ideas on how to do this? Looks like this is going to affect lots of people. Cheers.

Thanks

What would be the difference if you're trying to setup a WordPress multisite?

Very interesting but is it really easier to develop this way?

I'm getting 502 error, the setup in ngix is the same..

can you please tell me how to migrate a bedrock wordpress website from one host to another, i need urgent help. Please suggest ne how can i do that?

There's a change in Local's config files in that they are no longer text files but "templated" Handlebars files and your suggested edits to this file to point to the true whereabouts of the server no longer work. Any suggestions?

Hi, Alex. Tnx for tut. But, now Local is updated, and there are no more conf/nginx/site.conf file. Instead, there are site.conf.hbs file, and inside there root "{{root}}"; I've tried to replace it with 'root "/app/bedock/web/";' but its wont work. Also, in GUI there are some errors appeared like cant find db_name etc. Seems like root path setted somewhere else, but I cant figure out where and how to change it, so this way I cant use Local with bedrock(( Can u suggest me something? My Local's version is 5.2.5+2498

I know this video is from 2019 but I had an issue that seemed to happen no which tutorial I watched for setting this up, including this one. The issue was in the nginx site.conf file. For root, you need to update your path to the COMPLETE path. On Mac, it should be something like "/Users//Local Sites//app/bedrock/web"

Hello, Could you help me, please? I've been having problem to setup bedrock on my local. It seems it's caching. S I got the error 404 Not Found. Should I do some extra task to fix it? Thank you so much.

I get 404 on the root url and a 502 on the /wp/wp-admin

Hello...i have problem 404 forbiden when i delete the public folder and keep bedrock.....eny solution...?

Is there any guide to help install LocalWP on Linux. I can't get mine to work. (I'm on Arch linux)

When I open the site ngx config file. It says {{root}} and not root / app/public; What should I modify this file as?

Hey, Alex, Thanks for your video, could you give me a lead to deploy on a remote server. Thanks for your help.

Really enjoying this video, however I am getting stuck at the site.conf step. I'm not sure if bedrock has updated since you released this video but the top of my site.conf file reads like this upstream php { {{#each fastcgi_servers}} server {{this}}; {{/each}} } server { listen {{port}}; root "{{root}}"; Where yours starts straight with server, everything up to that point seemed to be working exactly as you had it. Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Again another interesting subject that I find highly relevant. Not without frustrations though. Let me explain please. I have started to use Flywheel, Visual Studio and trying my hand at some simple javascript coding for wordpress. I lack an understanding of all the things that are presupposed knowledge for devs, but never talked about by bloggers and other kinds of site admins that I know of. Nearly all you talk about makes sense in a vague way, but I have no real understanding of how you would go about making a site run on a bedrock, use GraphQL, GraphiQL, Gatsby or something like that. I get the general idea about their use, but not much beyond that. I have a basic understanding of PHP, Wordpress and javascript. I lack an understanding of the more practical nature of how these things work in combination. I cant find any relevant material to base my next steps on. I find tons of "how to use this plugin" or how to do that in Elementor. But when i try to find something that goes beyond that, suddenly I find my self in a conversation that is probably mostly between experienced coders. I like your videos as you present things very nicely and obviously know what you are talking about. But 50% is way over my head and very hard to make sense of. Is there any chance that you are going to make a set of intro-videos where you go over the items that you otherwise expect people to know about. Do you perhaps have recommendations about how to proceed from a super-user stage to a stage where I can Projects that are on my list of things that I want to be able to are things like: Code for forms that will calculate a set of outputs based on user-input and save them to a custom post type-post. Coding a user- or account-home page with saved personal information (read articles, articles on "my to-read-list" and so on). How to understand a deal with security regarding saving private information. For these projects I think I might need a better understanding of the basic system of Wordpress in general. I just don't know where to find such an understanding. Do you have recommendations for where to look, what to read or how to proceed?

How do you install Composer? Is it as painful as the instructions on the official website?

And what if I don't want to deploy to Flywheel?

Sadly this doe not work on Windows with the latest version of Bedrock. When you delete the public folder it creates a shit show. The "site.config" is totally different then yours and does not allow for a set root path. Instead it gives you {{root}} ... you change anything there and your wp-config goes wild and you get a 404.

For all you guys having issues with getting 404 not found Nginx on windows. Update the root to something like this depending on your local path > "C:\Users\User\Local Sites\bedrock\app\bedrock\web";

Getting Nginx 404 Error?! Note! If you are having issues with LocalWP 5 and Bedrock, go to localwp.com/community/t/adding-bedrock-to-local-version-5/15542/4 You'll see that {{root}} should be changed to: root "/Users//Local Sites//app/bedrock/web"; I hope this helps anyone else that's stuck with this.

Bedrock with Local is great! Just type this one thing and there you go... it all works perfectly. Oh wait, it's been 5 minutes so now nothing works (always and forever web development)

Local is really slow

LocalWP has made an update to their path. `root /app/bedrock/web/` won't work anymore. You will need to provide the entire path e.g root "/Users/claygriffiths/Local Sites/bedrock-test/app/bedrock/web"; localwp.com/community/t/adding-bedrock-to-local-version-5/15542/3

This setup no longer works.

Using bedrock just seems like extra work! There is no performance improvement or anything… I don’t see the point