I maintain a handful of open source tools, most started as a way to save myself time on a build, before proving useful to others too. Tools like Claude Code have since helped me find and fix bugs faster.
They are the parts of a WordPress project I wanted to automate: getting a live site onto a local machine, standing a new install up from nothing, and starting a theme with a common package set.
A WP-CLI command that pulls a live site down to a development environment in a matter of minutes.
It talks to the host over SSH, brings the database and the uploads folder across, and leaves the plugin state how a local build wants it — all from one command.
○ WP-CLI Sync jonbp.co.uk → dev.jonbp.co.uk › Connection ✔ Connected to web@pablo › Database ✔ Imported 2.7 MB › Site URLs ✔ jonbp.co.uk → http://dev.jonbp.co.uk, 400 replacements › Uploads ✔ Already up to date › Plugins ✔ Already up to date › Deactivate Plugins ✔ Deactivated wp-cloudflare-page-cache, all-in-one-seo-pack ✔ Sync complete in 8.1s
A command line tool that stands a WordPress site up in minutes, on Bedrock or a standard install.
It asks a short set of questions, then creates the site, the admin user, the base pages and the plugins I reach for on every project.
○ Ignition Bedrock installation › Database Database name: jonbp › WordPress Admin User Username: jonbp Email address: [email protected] Forename: Jon Surname: Beaumont-Pike › Site Site URL: http://dev.jonbp.co.uk Site name: Jon Beaumont-Pike Tagline: Full Stack Web Developer Base pages (separate page names with commas): About Me, Open Source, Portfolio › Common Plugins Install Classic Editor? (y/N): n Install WooCommerce? (y/N): n Install Disable Comments? (y/N): y Install Disable Search? (y/N): y › Final Check Are you ready to proceed? (y/N): y
A Tailwind v4 and Vite starter theme for WordPress, and the theme this site runs on. Inspired by the underscores theme.
Templates live in template-parts/ to keep the root clean, jQuery is deregistered, and the build is a watch step that stays out of the way.
A local LEMP stack in Docker for running PHP sites: nginx, PHP-FPM from 7.4 to 8.5 and MariaDB, with a small CLI that does the setup for you, from adding a site to switching its PHP version.
Every site gets its own .localhost address with a trusted HTTPS certificate and its own PHP version, with Xdebug built in and no hosts file to edit.
A WordPress plugin that packs away the parts of WordPress a site never uses: comments, search, the blog and XML-RPC. It keeps them out of the admin, the editor and the front end, and can close off the REST API one route group at a time.
Nothing is deleted. Each feature is a single switch, set on its settings screen, in wp-config.php or with WP-CLI, and switching one back on returns the site exactly as it was.
An elegant display for periodic speedtest results. A scheduled speedtest-cli run appends to a CSV.
Rush reads the latest results and turns them into a latest reading and a run of history, so it’s easy to track a slow connection. This was created when I didn’t have the best home internet connection!
