WordPress Plugin

The WordPress plugin provides some handy options to make setting up a .probo.yaml file for your WordPress site easier. To use this plugin you must declare plugin: WordPressApp in a step in your .probo.yaml file.

WordPress core and plugins generally prefer absolute URLs for links and images instead of relative URLs. This means Probo needs to rewrite your data in order for links to work in the test environment. The wpUrl and wpHome configuration options set the string values Probo will use to search for the appropriate base paths and replace them with the Probo environment’s URL.

Domain/URL Configuration

• wpUrl {string}

  The URL of the original site as stored in the database. This is replaced by the Probo URL in the database.

  Example

  steps:
    - name: Identify site URL
      plugin: WordPressApp
      wpUrl: http://www.example.com

• wpHome {string}

  The homepage URL of the original site (including the domain). This is replaced by the Probo URL in the database.

  Example

  steps:
    - name: Identify homepage URL
      plugin: WordPressApp
      wpHome: http://www.example.com

Database Configuration

• database {string}

  The filename of the database to import if specified. Note that this database must be added to the Assets section separately.

  Example

  assets:
    - mydb.sql.gz
  steps:
    - name: Import database
      plugin: WordPressApp
      database: mydb.sql.gz

• databaseName {string}

  The name of the database. Defaults to wordpress.

  Example

  steps:
    - name: Set database name
      plugin: WordPressApp
      databaseName: mydb

• databaseGzipped {boolean}

  Whether the database was sent gzipped and whether it should therefore be gunzipped before importing.

  Example

  steps:
    - name: Unzip database
      plugin: WordPressApp
      databaseGzipped: true

Known Issues

Database Collation Errors on Builds

Currenty in Wordpress 4.8.x+, the MySQL database collation can be in COLLATION format utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci. This format is unsupported by our older Docker images depending on your site’s MySQL Server version. If you exported your database from MySQL 5.6 or higher, you might receive the following error when importing the DB to Probo:

Workaround:

Use one of our Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 18.04 Probo Docker images instead to resolve this issue as they have a newer version of MySQL installed supports utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci.

WP-CLI Version Errors

In some cases we have seen the wp-cli tool error out during a build using the utf8mb4_unicode_ci DB collation. Updating the wp-cli tool in the .probo.yaml file resolves this issue. You will need to update your wp-cli version if you receive the following error in your Probo build logs for the “Site setup” step:

Workaround:

Update wp-cli in your .probo.yaml steps, or use one of our Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 18.04 images to resolve this issue.

    assets:
      - wordpress.sql.gz
    steps:
      - name: Update wp-cli.
        plugin: Script
        script:
          - wp cli update --allow-root --yes
      - name: Site setup
        plugin: WordPressApp
        database: 'wordpress.sql.gz'
        databaseName: 'wordpress'
        databaseGzipped: true
        subDirectory: 'code'
        devDomain: 'http://example.com'
        devHome: 'http://example.com/'
        flushCaches: true
    

Additional Options

• subDirectory {string}

  The directory of the actual web root. Defaults to docroot.

  Example

  steps:
    - name: Configure web root
      plugin: WordPressApp
      subDirectory: $SRC_DIR/web

• flushCaches {boolean}

  Whether or not to flush the cache. Defaults to true.

  Example

  steps:
    - name: Flush caches
      plugin: WordPressApp
      flushCaches: true

• updatePlugins {boolean}

  Whether or not to attempt to update any WordPress plugins to their latest versions. Defaults to false.

  Example

  steps:
    - name: Update plugins
      plugin: WordPressApp
      updatePlugins: true

Example

Using the Wordpress plugin

 assets:
  - dev.sql.gz
 steps:
  - name: Site setup
    plugin: WordPressApp
    database: 'dev.sql.gz'
    databaseName: 'wordpress'
    databaseGzipped: true
    subDirectory: 'code'
    devDomain: 'http://example.com'
    devHome: 'http://example.com/'
    flushCaches: true

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