First deployment

This chapter will cover the initial deployment of wp-lemon on a new host. You can read all about the hosting requirements over here.

Prerequisites

• Setup a hosting plan that covers the basic requirements.
• Secure host with SSL certificate
• Make sure required PHP modules are active
• Vhost with root folder pointing to /web

Upload files (FTP deployment)

Here you will find what files/folders you want to deploy to your hosting.

⚠️ Make sure that you did a yarn run production build before starting your upload.

Copy
├── .env
├── wp-cli.yml
├── composer.json
├── config
├── vendor
└── web
    ├── app
    │   ├── mu-plugins
    │   ├── languages
    │   ├── plugins
    │   ├── themes
    │   │    ├── child theme - do not upload dotfiles, yarn.lock, package.json, babel.config.json and the node_modules folder)
    │   │    └── wp-lemon - do not upload dotfiles, yarn.lock, package.json, babel.config.json and the node_modules folder)
    │   └── uploads
    ├── wp-config.php
    ├── index.php
    └── wp

Create/upload database

After deploying the files you can make a full export of the database on your local or staging environment using the migrate db pro plugin. Make sure that you search/replace the correct url to ensure proper url redirects throughout the website. Create a database and matching mysql user/password. Upload the database via phpmyadmin or wp cli with the wp db import export-db-name.sql.

Update .env file in root.

In your .env file update:

• DB_NAME
• DB_USER
• DB_PASSWORD
• WP_ENV. Make sure to set it to staging or production accordingly.
• WP_HOME
• New set of salts

Checks

The website should now be up and running. Make sure to check the following:

• Child theme contains a dist folder with production build.
• Website is added to maintenance dashboard.
• Make sure mail functionality is working as expected.
• SEO plugins are setup and active.
• Google search console is activated.
• New websites added by submitting it to the Google index.