Hey there, As you know VIP Quickstart has been deprecated recently. Here is some easy way to get started with VIP development, We hope soon EasyEngine will V4 launch with VIP support but for now, lets do all thing manually.
You need Ubuntu 14 / 16 LTS with sudo access also we need svn and git installed.
For Started let’s install easy engine if you don’t already have one Open Terminal
wget -qO ee rt.cx/ee && sudo bash ee # install EasyEngine
Next step create a multisite website
ee site create example.com --wpsubdom
save username and password somewhere for safekeeping, We are ready with inital setup for VIP now let’s make site real VIP ?
The user www-data has write acess to /var/www/ folder so lets switch user with following command
sudo -su www-data
Goto htdocs folder with
cd /var/www/example.com/htdocs/
Let’s add VIP Plugins and Helper files
svn co https://vip-svn.wordpress.com/plugins/ wp-content/themes/vip/plugins
For next step lets install some mu-plugins
git clone --recursive https://github.com/automattic/vip-wpcom-mu-plugins wp-content/mu-plugins
these repos should be updated daily with svn up and git pull
If you have a theme ready for project lets put that in wp-content/themes/vip/{your-theme}. If you don’t have theme ready right now lets put one of WordPress default theme to VIP directory by simply moving that to VIP directory
mv wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/ wp-content/themes/vip/twentysixteen
Now let’s include vip-init.php to themes functions.php at the beginning of the file and check it by loading facebook instant article plugin.
require_once WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/themes/vip/plugins/vip-init.php'; wpcom_vip_load_plugin( 'facebook-instant-articles', 'plugins','3.3' );
Now visit http://example.com/wp-admin/ and log in by username and password generated and go to sites and activate theme in which you added vip-init.php
We are done!
