Motivation for this change

WordPress includes an autoupdater that may attempt to update core files, translations, and in some cases plugins / themes - https://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates - all of which live in read-only nix store.

/cc @basvandijk

Things done

• Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option build-use-sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
• Built on platform(s)
  • NixOS
  • macOS
  • other Linux distributions
• Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
• Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"
• Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.