Modern WordPress Development

WordCamp Ottawa 2014 talk about development workflow with Bedrock.

Transcript

1. Modern WordPress Development
2. Scott Walkinshaw @swalkinshaw
3. Roots http://roots.io
4. “Live demos are like Global Thermonuclear War: the only way to win is to not do a live demo in front of hundreds of strangers in the first place.” - speaking.io
5. Tools
6. Bedrock + + + + WordPress, but better.
7. 1 Create a new Bedrock project
8. * Better folder structure * Easier WordPress configuration * Dependency Management with Composer * Deployments with Capistrano
9. 2 Create a development environment
10. VirtualBox, but better. Vagrant
11. dev === prod Parity is good.
12. Ansible Server configuration automation.
13. 3 Add a plugin with Composer
14. Composer Dependency Manager for PHP
15. 4 Create a production server
16. 5 Deploy to production with Capistrano
17. Capistrano Remote server automation and deployment tool