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WordBox—A truly modern development environment for WordPress and PHP
WordBox is a portmanteau of WordPress and Sandbox. Although the name implies WordPress, you can really put in any PHP script using WordBox just as easily.
WordBox is a truly modern WordPress site development (and deployment) environment.
Bring the power of Node.JS to your WordPress environment!
Running the server
Steps 1-3 will have an automated option later.
- Download php zip from https://php.net and place the extracted files under
/php. - Download WordPress from https://wordpress.org and place the extracted files under
/public. - [Optional / Haven't tested] If you're on Linux, edit the config file to point to your
php-cgibin file. - Run
npm installto install dependencies (Express). - Run
node .to start the server.
Versioning
Thanks to @wbhob for donating the npm w package to me.
Because npm versions are immutable, our public version number starts directly to v.1.1.0. The project should be considered unstable until v.2.0.0 which will be WordBox's first stable release version.

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