The Truth About The Environment

A Primer for Professional WordPress Development

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1. The Truth About The Environment A Primer for Professional WordPress Development Practices
2. • I’m Tom (nice to meet you!) • I’m self-employed and blog daily • Married for eight years • Two beautiful daughters • Two crazy terrier mutts Hey, What’s Up? @tommcfarlin | https://tommcfarlin.com | http://pressware.co | https://presswareplugins.com
3. A Primer for Professional WordPress Development Practices The Purpose of This Talk I want to believe there’s a better way to build solutions.
4. 1. Three Environments 2. Why They Matter 3. How They Help Us What We’ll Cover
5. A Primer for Professional WordPress Development Practices Before We Get Started A few questions for all of you.
6. 1. Do you build sites? 2. Do you maintain code? 3. Do you use version control? 4. Do you use deployments? I want to know…
7. A Primer for Professional WordPress Development Practices The Three Environments Development, Staging, Production
8. • Your local machine • Should mirror Staging and Production • This is where development starts. Development
9. • A server for deployments • Accessible by you and your client • Should have the same configuration • This is for testing only • Do not modify code live on this server Staging
10. • This is the live site • It’s for code deployments and users • You do not make live changes • This never includes • test content • untested code Production
11. A Primer for Professional WordPress Development Practices Deploying Code Sending code from your machine to Staging and Production
12. • How most people get started • Clearly delineate Staging and Production • Push to Production on final sign off Deployments via FTP
13. • Tied into version control • Relies on changes in your repository • In WordPress, you’re likely to use Subversion • You may also use Git via GitHub Deployments via Tooling
14. • PhpMyAdmin • Free • Manual deployments • WP Migrate DB Pro • Paid plugin • Handles deployments automatically What About Databases?
15. A Primer for Professional WordPress Development Practices Improving Project Management Streamlining Your Workflow and Keeping Clients Happy
16. • May require a change to your workflow • My approach is not prescriptive: • Set up my development environment • Defines milestones and tasks • Iterate until sign off • Repeat until project completion • Deploy to production Your Project Management
17. A Primer for Professional WordPress Development Practices Thank You! Comments, Questions, Confusion, or Clarity?