Beginners Guide to WordPress Workflow

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WORDPRESS WORKFLOW BEGINNERS GUIDE TO

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ABOUT ME Agency & Community Engineer   Instructor Executive Director / Founder

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REACH OUT @tessak22  me@tessak22.com tessakriesel.com Find me at other WordPress events!

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WORDPRESS CORE

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FOLDER STRUCTURE

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ROOT DIRECTORY

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WP-CONFIG.PHP

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WP-ADMIN

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WP-INCLUDES

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WP-CONTENT

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THEMES

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LOTS OF THEME FILES

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PLUGINS

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UPLOADS

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DATABASE STRUCTURE

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WP_OPTIONS TABLE

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WP_USERS, WP_USERMETA TABLES

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WP_TERMS, WP_TERM_RELATIONSHIPS, WP_TERM_TAXONOMY

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WP_COMMENTS, WP_COMMENTMETA

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WHAT COMES NEXT? NOW WHAT? WHAT COMES NEXT?

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Working Locally Version Control Site Hosting

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VERSION CONTROL

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WHY VERSION CONTROL?

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WHAT IS GIT? Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

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GIT VS GITHUB

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GIT REPOSITORY HOSTING

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COMMAND LINE

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GIT GUI’S

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.GITIGNORE FILE

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EXAMPLE Let’s create a new WordPress repo!

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USING GIT WITH SITE HOSTING

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WORKING LOCALLY

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TOOLS TO WORK LOCALLY

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CLEAN FOLDERS Setup a “www” or “sites” folder in the root directory of your computer. As you create projects, create subfolders for each project and include all project ﬁles in there. This will also be easier for when you start using command line and for your local environment tool.

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INSTALL WORDPRESS 1. Create Database 2. Copy over ﬁles from WordPress.org download 3. Setup your local environment - this varies depending on tool 4. Navigate to the url for your local environment 5. Run WordPress Install 6. If you are using git, you should do your ﬁrst commit of your WordPress site

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EDITORS AND IDEAS

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MORE ADVANCED LOCAL TOOLS

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SITE HOSTING

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SELF VS MANAGED

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SHARED HOSTING ★Cheaper ★Noisy Neighbor Issues ★Learn things - possibly the hard way ★Lots of competition means they work harder ★More Control ★No Limits

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MANAGED HOSTING ★Costs More ★Fast & Secure ★Great Support ★Dev Tools ★3rd Party Integrations ★Automated Updates & Backups ★Less Control