WordPress: Civic Tech Toronto

This is a WordPress repository configured to run on the Civic Tech Toronto website on the Pantheon platform.

Pantheon is website platform optimized and configured to run high performance sites with an amazing developer workflow. There is built-in support for features such as Varnish, Redis, Apache Solr, New Relic, Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, PhantomJS and more. 

About

Our experimental development site is hosted at: https://dev.toronto.civictech.ca

The Panthon dashboard is here: https://dashboard.pantheon.io/sites/2719de9e-f8ef-44d0-9627-bc83e50bd0e2

You'll need to ask for access to the dashboard. (Check our Service Access doc to see who can give it to you.)

Philosophy

• Keep important site configuration in code, not in the database.
• Capture plugin and theme customizations in version control, as opposed to untracked changes on an FTP server.

File Organization

• Theme customizations are stores in web/wp-content/themes/custom/zerif-lite-child
• We are using a custom version of the Meetup Widgets plugin. (See changes)
• All other themes and plugins are using unmodified versions.
• We use Composer package manager to help manage Wordpress.
  • composer.json specifies roughly what theme/plugin version we want
  • composer.lock locks these themes/plugins to specific versions
  • composer commands help us rebuild the theme/plugin directories according to what we want

Projects page

The Projects page is a little special. It is automatically generated and updated from the "Hacknight Projects" Trello board, using projects specifically tagged with the Website Featured label.

Source Code: projects.php projects.js