Be a more efficient WordPress developer. Discover time-tested workflows for building WordPress sites and themes.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- What are WordPress workflows?
- What you should know
- Our workflows
- Your project checklist
- Tips for choosing a domain
- Setting up WordPress on a live host
- Working with content in WordPress
- Evaluating themes and plugins
- Managing media in WordPress
- The customizer and advanced customizing methods
- Launching and other resources
- What is a child theme?
- Setting up a local dev environment
- Defining our child theme
- Migrating a live site to local
- Testing our theme with extreme content
- How to handle new content locally
- Moving our child theme live
- Wrapping up
- Building custom sites with Wordpress
- Defining roles and responsibilities
- Creating multiple environments
- Publishing content to the staging server
- Setting up a local dev environment
- Syncing content between environments
- Using version control
- An example theme development workflow with Git
- Testing the site
- Taking the site live
- Wrapping up
- What are advanced tools and workflows?
- Grunt, Gulp, and other build tools
- Automated testing
- A note on Gutenberg and React
- Static site generators
- Next steps
Taught by
Joe Casabona