Deprecated

Note: VIP Quickstart is deprecated as of March 13, 2017. Support for Quickstart ends April 21, 2017. For new environments, we recommend using Chassis or VVV as detailed in the Local Environment documentation.

For full Quickstart documentation, see http://vip.wordpress.com/documentation/quickstart/.

Overview

VIP Quickstart is a local development environment for WordPress.com VIP developers. It provides developers with an environment that closely mirrors WordPress.com along with all the tools we recommend developers use. VIP Quickstart should not be used to run a production site.

What You Get

• Ubuntu 12.04
• WordPress trunk
• WordPress.com VIP Shared Plugins repository
• WordPress multisite
• WordPress unit tests
• Custom WordPress.com modifications
• WP-CLI
• MySQL
• PHP
• Nginx
• PHPUnit

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following projects that VIP Quickstart is built on:

• Vagrant
• Puppet
• Varying Vagrant Vagrants
• WP-CLI
• puppet-mysql
• puppet-nginx
• puppet-php
• puppi
• puppet-wp

If you're not developing for WordPress.com VIP, you might want to check out these other Vagrant/WordPress projects

• VVV
• Salty WordPress
• Vagrant Genesis
• VagrantPress