Reply To: Pro License Key in config?

• Idealien

• April 9, 2020 at 12:56 am

I don’t see the wp-config concern as enough of a reason to prevent this given how many other plugins and values such as DB credentials are already following that pattern.

It would be great if WP supported .env files natively, it’s definitely the proper place for config values.

Agreed. Until that is part of core, using https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv isn’t that much overhead as an included composer package. The roots.io team has a good write-up of how they’ve incorporated into their repo structures, build pipelines, etc. But chances are if wp-config has been committed with values to git, adding a composer dependency may be beyond the same user base :/