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ss install wordpress hovercraft

This command will install or reinstall the free HoverCraft theme, latest version directly from GitHub. This is sometimes useful in case you are trying to rapidly reinstall it several times, and the GitHub access window is limiting you, or Git Updater cache has not refreshed yet, etc. Most of the time you shouldn’t need to […]

ss install wordpress cli

This command will reinstall WP-CLI from their own mirrors, which means it will always be the latest official stable version. It will install not only the .phar file but also the required configuration files that SlickStack uses to slightly customize WP-CLI for our purposes. There is not a separate command for installing the WP-CLI config, […]

ss install wordpress config

Reinstalls the wp-config.php file using the boilerplate that SlickStack maintains on GitHub. The boilerplate will be downloaded to your localhost server, then using the settings you’ve chosen in your ss-config file, a unique and secure wp-config.php file will be generated. Keep in mind that wp-config.php is meant to be read-only on SlickStack servers, and should […]

ss install wordpress packages

Reinstalls WordPress core (all files, default plugins and themes, etc) but doesn’t touch wp-config.php … since SlickStack sets our free HoverCraft theme as the default theme, that means that brand new installs of SlickStack (WordPress) will result in the HoverCraft theme being activated. However, for existing WordPress installs that have already been configured to use […]

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