Keeping your Trellis Server Updated

When you manage client servers with Trellis you will every now and then have to update the server. This to keep Ubuntu, NGINX, MariaDB and PHP updated. But also to patch security holes and update the latest Linux libraries. So keeping your Trellis server updated is pretty important. And fortunately with Trellis it is all […]

Setting up a Trellis Server at Digital Ocean including SendGrid and Google Mail

Here is a the story of setting up a Trellis server at Digital Ocean including SendGrid and Google Mail for a client. I took care of this recently to move him from a shared Dreamhost server (testing ground) to a Trellis LEMP with Digital Ocean using the Bedrock Modern WordPress Stack. This post also includes dealing […]

Trellis Media Migration

When you work with a Trellis WordPress LEMP setup to manage a client site migration is set up pretty well. You can use scripts for server provisioning and site deployment. However, there are certain things that will / should not be in your git repository. These items will not be synched. Media in the uploads folder […]

WPLMS Setup on Trellis

Been working on getting WPLMS to run on Roots Trellis. It is for a new exciting startup project I have been working on. To quote WPLMS: WPLMS is a Learning Management System for WordPress . It is suitable for Training Centres, Corporate trainings, Course tutors, College, Academy, University, School and MOOC platform. It is an […]

Disable Xdebug running Composer on Trellis

When you use Trellis for local WordPress development, Xdebug is installed for debugging. This can be very useful. But when you run composer to update plugins, WordPress and so on and use Xdebug composer will become very slow. And you will get this warning You are running composer with xdebug enabled. This has a major […]

Trellis and Sequel Pro for OSX

If you are working with Trellis LEMP Stack on a Mac to create beautiful and professional WordPress themes on blazing fast and secure servers you are bound to wind up needing to manipulate the database. Many developers are used to PHPMyAdmin. Well, you should not install it and it has not been installed on Trellis. Install Sequel […]

WordPress LEMP Stack Management with Trellis

A few months ago – 8 months already yikes! – I wrote a great post on Bedrock Modern WordPress Stack and as is it became a rather long post I decided to indicate I would write on Bedrock Ansible – now Trellis a little later on. Well time has come and gone and the only item […]

Roots Trellis Errors

In this post I will be collecting Roots Trellis local and remote provisioning, deployment and general setup errors with solutions I came up with. The list is growing and growing so make sure you press control or command f to search for your specific error or use the search box. Local Setup Errors I have had quite a […]