WordPress: Workflows

Be a more efficient WordPress developer. Discover time-tested workflows for building WordPress sites and themes.

Introduction

• What are WordPress workflows?
• What you should know
• Our workflows

1. Building Your First WordPress Site

• 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

2. Building Your First Child Theme

• 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

3. Developing a Site for a Client

• 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

4. Advanced Build Tools and Workflows

• What are advanced tools and workflows?
• Grunt, Gulp, and other build tools
• Automated testing
• A note on Gutenberg and React
• Static site generators

Conclusion

• Next steps