SolidBunch WordPress Core

A Composer-compatible repository of WordPress core distributions maintained by SolidBunch for the StarterKit.

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🧩 Available Packages

This repository provides two variants of the WordPress core:

• solidbunch/wordpress-core – full WordPress archive (identical to wordpress.org)
• solidbunch/wordpress-core-no-content – lightweight archive without wp-content/, ideal for CI/CD or StarterKit use

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✅ Usage

Add the repository to your composer.json

"repositories": [
  {
    "type": "composer",
    "url": "https://solidbunch.github.io/wordpress-core"
  }
]

Install full WordPress

"require": {
  "solidbunch/wordpress-core": "^6.8"
}

Install minimal WordPress (no-content)

"require": {
  "solidbunch/wordpress-core-no-content": "^6.8"
}

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📆 About the Packages

Package name	Contents	Target use case
solidbunch/wordpress-core	Full WP archive	General usage, classic setup
solidbunch/wordpress-core-no-content	No wp-content/	DevOps, CI, custom themes

All packages include:

• Correct PHP version requirement (parsed from official WordPress metadata)
• license: MIT
• Optional extra.mysql_version field for advanced tooling

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🔧 Custom Install Paths with solidbunch/composer-installers

To control where the WordPress core is installed (e.g. web/wp-core/ instead of vendor/), use the optional Composer plugin:

composer require solidbunch/composer-installers

Then add the installer path to your composer.json:

"extra": {
  "installer-paths": {
    "web/wp-core/": [
      "type:wordpress-core"
    ]
  }
}

This plugin recognizes type: wordpress-core and places the archive into the specified directory.

❗ solidbunch/composer-installers is not required inside the WordPress core package itself. It should be used by the consuming project.

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⚙ Automatic generation

The packages.json is updated automatically using:

• Official WordPress API: https://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.7/
• Node.js script generate-packages-json.js (included in this repository)
• Optional GitHub Actions trigger (e.g. daily schedule)

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StarterKit Integration

Website | Documentation

See the StarterKit installation guide.

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