Bedrock Roots Powering the Modern WordPress Development

Offers Enhanced Security Compared to Standard WordPress

Let’s start with the most critical topic of huge importance. No matter how good your WordPress website is, it will cost you a fortune if it remains vulnerable. A hacked WordPress website will bring serious damage to your business, revenue, and brand image. Modern WordPress development tools are used to address these vulnerabilities.

WordPress security is an area of concern due to its normal and fixed directory structure. This makes it important for WordPress developers to use advanced tools like Bedrock to enhance security by making it more difficult for hackers to identify things.

Easy to Maintain WordPress Websites

It may seem easy at first, but the actual maintenance of a WordPress website is far from easy. Except for minor version upgrades, other upgrades make it even more complex.

In the case of minor upgrades, a button pops up in WordPress that allows admins to download and implement updates with a single click. Whereas, if a need arrives to update the core, themes, plugins, etc. to the next major version, a WordPress developer will need to connect the server using SFTP and upload the updated packages over that server. These all upgrades are implemented on the file system of the live website.

Bedrock is designed to define themes, plugins, etc. like other dependency components which can be updated and installed with a single command through a package manager. This makes Bedrock an ideal choice for maintaining WordPress-powered websites.

Bedrock nullifies Codebase Bloating

The write access is required in WordPress to update the themes, plugins, etc. and it never tracks code for them in minor version upgrades. It simply swaps them with updated packages. Sometimes this makes a system vulnerable too and the bad thing is that this vulnerability is untraceable. Such version-controlled themes and plugins in WordPress make the codebase bloated.

Bedrock behaves and sees these components as dependencies, nothing is written in runtime. The individual packages do not even need to be committed. This forms a real possibility to eliminate the above vulnerabilities and blot occurring in WordPress.

Better Folder Structure

The folder structure creation in WordPress was quite complex and long. Instead, Bedrock’s programming includes its own structure with a range of improvements in the creation and updating of the subfolders inside the parent folder.

Apparently, we can see here that wp-content/ is renamed to app/ in which all the files of plugins, themes, and uploads are stored. They are also updated simultaneously by updating the parent folder. A simplified folder structure automatically reduces the bloat of this CMS platform significantly.

Bedrock Boosts Performance

Using the simplified folder structure of Bedrock helps, not only to decrease the bloat but also to decrease the number of files requested while loading a website. Moreover, it also helps in optimizing images and minimizing the files to boost the overall speed and performance of the WordPress website. More speed results in a smoother experience on the website.

Safe WordPress Installation with ZERO Downtime

In WordPress, when you update plugins manually through the WP admin, you need to keep your fingers crossed to see if the plugin works or causes a conflict. In the latter, the whole WordPress website goes down as a result of the conflict.

With Bedrock, while installing WordPress, there is no need to manually update the core WP version and the Composer is used to upgrade the plugins and themes. This process you can test locally and make sure everything is working in a smooth manner before pushing the changes to the live website.

Avoids Rework for Version Control

Standard WordPress install makes version control a difficult ask. In the case of version control, WordPress developers will have to test the plugins in the offline version and then repeat it once again over the live website. This doubles the effort and time to push the changes to the live website.

In Bedrock, Dotenv is used to load multiple environment files leveraging the Git repository. Through Git, multiple developers can work on diverse aspects simultaneously and merge the push to the live website, accelerating the whole process.