Overview

WPEngine is our preferred vendor for Platform as a Service for WordPress

📏 Rules

✅ Do…

• Exclude WordPress Core Files from the repository
• Deploy to WPEngine using GitHub Actions
• Ensure local environments manage their installed version of WordPress consistently
• Copy the server’s wp-config.php, update it to point at .env and commit it to the repo.
• Include your theme and all required plugins in the repo.
• Create staging environments not staging servers.

• Leverage their caching mechanisms. They’re pretty good.

🚫 Don’t…

• Keep WP Core Files in the Repo
• Try to control the version of WordPress on the server by way of Core Files (tried that, got the bruises).
• Update plugins in WPEngine - do that locally in the repo.
• Enable Cloudflare’s Proxy if you use Cloudflare for the domain - they already use it.

📈 Guidance

Excluding WordPress Core Files from the Repository

Local Environments and WordPress

Deploying to WPEngine using GitHub Actions