WordCamp St Louis 2014

My chat on speeding up your theme development workflow with automation. I showed some tools I use regularly YeoPress Grunt and Git for installation, live reload and compiling as well as basic deployments.

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1. Adding Automation to your theme development workflow Joshua Ray WordCamp St. Louis 2014 @pdxOllo http://ollomedia.com http://github.com/Ollo
2. Hi
3. Take the repetitive tasks for every WP project set up localhost set up local database find WP core or download again because you can’t remember where you saved it last. run 5 minute install install favorite theme or boiler install favorite plugins build push to git set up WP on remote server { dev, staging, production } install favorite plugins use ftp? to upload modified theme / boiler for review
5. Automate it Install Build Deploy
7. Automation isn't about being lazy its about being efficient. ~Addy Osmani
8. As an engineer, there is a short list of tools that you must be rabid about. Rabid. Foaming at the mouth crazy. ~Michael Lopp
9. Don’t fear your terminal
10. YeoPress
11. The officially un-official Yeoman generator for WordPress https://github.com/wesleytodd/YeoPress Requires Node http://nodejs.org/ Requires Yeoman http://yeoman.io/
12. $ npm install -g yo $ npm install -g yo generator-wordpress $ yo wordpress
13. Grunt The Javascript Taskrunner
14. Already Installed by Yeoman :D Grunt Cli http://gruntjs.com/getting-started#installing-the-cli Plugins http://gruntjs.com/plugins $ npm install -g grunt-cli
15. distributed version control system
16. If you’re not already using a version control system START NOW!
17. Webhooks http://developer.github.com/webhooks/
19. <?php // Init vars $LOCAL_ROOT = "/var/www/my_new_site"; $LOCAL_REPO_NAME = "public_html"; $LOCAL_REPO = "{$LOCAL_ROOT}/{$LOCAL_REPO_NAME}"; $REMOTE_REPO = "git@github.com:jonathanstark/my_new_site.git"; $DESIRED_BRANCH = "dev"; // Delete local repo if it exists if (file_exists($LOCAL_REPO)) { shell_exec("rm -rf {$LOCAL_REPO}"); } // Clone fresh repo from github using desired local repo name and checkout the desired branch echo shell_exec("cd {$LOCAL_ROOT} && git clone {$REMOTE_REPO} {$LOCAL_REPO_NAME} && cd {$LOCAL_REPO} && git checkout {$BRANCH}"); die("done " . mktime());
20. Dandelion https://github.com/scttnlsn/dandelion Incremental Git repository deployment for OS X and Linux. $ gem install dandelion
21. scheme: sftp host: example.com username: user password: pass path: path/to/deployment exclude: - .gitignore - dandelion.yml - folder/ additional: - public/css/print.css - public/css/screen.css - public/js/main.js
22. $ git commit -am “my new feature” $ git push origin master $ dandelion deploy
23. Others Beanstalk http://beanstalkapp.com/ FTPloy http://ftploy.com/ Capistrano http://capistranorb.com/ Rocketeer http://rocketeer.autopergamene.eu/
24. Questions?