Declare required plugins as required plugins

[tomjn]

Plugins should be declared as dependencies in composer.json, not links in a readme to zip files. This would allow them to be auto-installed, eliminating at least 3 setup steps

[tomjn]

as an aside, since WP Env allowed setting up config statements, those could be used to override the theme used and skip another step

[michalczaplinski]

Hi Tom!

Plugins should be declared as dependencies in composer.json, not links in a readme to zip files. This would allow them to be auto-installed, eliminating at least 3 setup steps

I'm not familiar with how this is configured. Can composer dependencies be just URLs that point to a ZIP file? Could you point me to an example?

as an aside, since WP Env allowed setting up config statements, those could be used to override the theme used and skip another step

Yes, that's true and in fact it's configured in the wp-env.json file:

wp-movies-demo/.wp-env.json

Line 8 in 0a465bb

"themes": ["./wp-movies-theme"],

but it doesn't seem to reliably activate the theme so we've made sure to add that step in the README.