Adding Automation to your theme development workflow Joshua Ray WordCamp St. Louis 2014 @pdxOllo http://ollomedia.com http://github.com/Ollo 

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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 

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Automate it Install Build Deploy 

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Automation isn't about being lazy its about being efficient. ~Addy Osmani 

As an engineer, there is a short list of tools that you must be rabid about. Rabid. Foaming at the mouth crazy. ~Michael Lopp 

Don’t fear your terminal 

YeoPress 

The officially un-official Yeoman generator for WordPress https://github.com/wesleytodd/YeoPress Requires Node http://nodejs.org/ Requires Yeoman http://yeoman.io/ 

$ npm install -g yo $ npm install -g yo generator-wordpress $ yo wordpress 

Grunt The Javascript Taskrunner 

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 

distributed version control system 

If you’re not already using a version control system START NOW! 

Webhooks http://developer.github.com/webhooks/ 

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Dandelion https://github.com/scttnlsn/dandelion Incremental Git repository deployment for OS X and Linux. $ gem install dandelion 

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 

$ git commit -am “my new feature” $ git push origin master $ dandelion deploy 

Others Beanstalk http://beanstalkapp.com/ FTPloy http://ftploy.com/ Capistrano http://capistranorb.com/ Rocketeer http://rocketeer.autopergamene.eu/ 

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