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{{CompanyName}} setup CiviCRM on top of WordPress for Coastal Trails Coalition in order to substantially improve operations. | {{CompanyName}} setup CiviCRM on top of WordPress for Coastal Trails Coalition in order to substantially improve operations. | ||
| − | CiviCRM gives us all benefits and capabilities of a large commercial CRM and donor management system completely free of licensing costs. CiviCRM allows non-profits to benefit from an integrated solution for donor management, events, bulk email, etc. substantially increasing their effectiveness as compared to managing a variety of non- | + | CiviCRM gives us all benefits and capabilities of a large commercial CRM and donor management system completely free of licensing costs. CiviCRM allows non-profits to benefit from an integrated solution for donor management, events, bulk email, etc. substantially increasing their effectiveness as compared to managing a variety of non- |
So, what in particular did I need to do in order to setup CiviCRM, and test or convert operations? This article with explore and document that effort. | So, what in particular did I need to do in order to setup CiviCRM, and test or convert operations? This article with explore and document that effort. | ||
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== Installation == | == Installation == | ||
| − | The [ | + | The [http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Installing+CiviCRM+for+WordPress#InstallingCiviCRMforWordPress-PluginIssues instructions] are well-written and easy to follow. On DreamHost, I logged in to my [https://panel.dreamhost.com control panel] and created a new database called ''coastal_crm'' The only downside was that the very popular "JetPack" plugin for WordPress is listed as incompatible with the CiviCRM plugin. So I disabled the JetPack plugin. |
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| − | On DreamHost, I logged in to my [https://panel.dreamhost.com control panel] and created a new database called ''coastal_crm'' The only downside was that the very popular "JetPack" plugin for WordPress is listed as incompatible with the CiviCRM plugin. So I disabled the JetPack plugin. | ||
== After initial install == | == After initial install == | ||
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=== Using WP-CLI to upgrade plugins === | === Using WP-CLI to upgrade plugins === | ||
| − | # go to the document root | + | # go to the document root |
| − | # update all the plugins with wp-cli | + | cd /var/www/html |
| + | # update all the plugins with wp-cli | ||
| + | sudo -u www-data wp plugin update --all | ||
| − | === | + | === Start with a db backup === |
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<source lang="bash"> | <source lang="bash"> | ||
sudo su - | sudo su - | ||
/home/greg/bin/backup.db.sh wordpress | /home/greg/bin/backup.db.sh wordpress | ||
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| + | # Ctrl+D logout | ||
# set some variables | # set some variables | ||
docroot=/var/www/html | docroot=/var/www/html | ||
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# make sure you have a backup of your civicrm.settings.php file | # make sure you have a backup of your civicrm.settings.php file | ||
cp $config ~/civicrm.settings.php.bak | cp $config ~/civicrm.settings.php.bak | ||
| − | + | mkdir html.backup && sudo chown www-data:www-data html.backup | |
| − | + | sudo -u www-data cp -ar /var/www/html html.backup | |
| − | sudo -u www-data cp -ar /var/www/html | + | wget https://download.civicrm.org/civicrm-4.7.16-wordpress.zip |
| − | + | sudo -u www-data unzip civicrm-4.7.16-wordpress.zip -d /var/www/html/wp-content/plugin | |
| − | + | rm -r $templates | |
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| − | rm - | ||
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# test and then cleanup or revert | # test and then cleanup or revert | ||
| − | rm | + | rm civicrm-4.7.16-wordpress.zip |
rm ~/civicrm.settings.php.bak | rm ~/civicrm.settings.php.bak | ||
| − | rm -rf | + | sudo rm -rf html.backup |
</source> | </source> | ||
