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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 [https://docs.civicrm.org/sysadmin/en/latest/install/wordpress/#InstallingCiviCRMforWordPress-PluginIssues instructions] are well-written and easy to follow <ref>There is an issue on GitHub discussing simplifying the instructions down to the "essentials for routine installs"; with notes about edge cases. https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-sysadmin-guide/issues/52#issuecomment-404952171</ref>. | ||
Some of the '''help''' content from `wp civicrm --help` | |||
<pre> | |||
wp civicrm install | |||
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Command for to install CiviCRM. The install command requires that you have downloaded a | |||
tarball or zip file first. | |||
Options: | |||
--dbhost MySQL host for your WordPress/CiviCRM database. Defaults to localhost. | |||
--dbname MySQL database name of your WordPress/CiviCRM database. | |||
--dbpass MySQL password for your WordPress/CiviCRM database. | |||
--dbuser MySQL username for your WordPress/CiviCRM database. | |||
--lang Default language to use for installation. | |||
--langtarfile Path to your l10n tar.gz file. | |||
--site_url Base Url for your WordPress/CiviCRM website without http ( e.g. | |||
mysite.com ) | |||
--ssl Using ssl for your WordPress/CiviCRM website if set to on ( e.g. | |||
--ssl=on ) | |||
--tarfile Path to your CiviCRM tar.gz file. | |||
</pre> | |||
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 <pre>cd /var/www/html</pre> | ||
cd /var/www/html | # update all the plugins with wp-cli <pre>sudo -u www-data wp plugin update --all</pre> | ||
# update all the plugins with wp-cli | |||
sudo -u www-data wp plugin update --all | === Using WP-CLI to upgrade CiviCRM === | ||
<pre> | |||
wp civicrm upgrade | |||
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Take backups, replace CiviCRM codebase with new specified tarfile and upgrade database by | |||
executing the CiviCRM upgrade process - civicrm/upgrade?reset=1. Use civicrm-restore to | |||
revert to previous state in case anything goes wrong. | |||
</pre> | |||
=== | === Traditional-style procedure === | ||
< | <syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | ||
sudo su - | sudo su - | ||
/home/greg/bin/backup.db.sh wordpress | /home/greg/bin/backup.db.sh wordpress | ||
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rm ~/civicrm.settings.php.bak | rm ~/civicrm.settings.php.bak | ||
rm -rf $backup | rm -rf $backup | ||
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