Bronson Quick: My WordPress Development Workflow

MY WORDPRESS
DEVELOPMENT
WORKFLOW
Bronson Quick
sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | [email protected] | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza @bronsonquick

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OVERVIEW
 Who Am I?
 My Tools Of Choice
 Analysing The Photoshop File
 Setting Up The Development Environment
 Making A Starter Theme
 Setting Up Sass Partials & Variables
 Theme Unit Test Data & Tests
 Deployment
 Ongoing Maintenance
 Future Workflow
2 of 34 sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | [email protected] | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza @bronsonquick
Everyone has their own development style and I wanted to share mine!

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WHO AM I?
 Brisbane based WordPress Developer
 Working with different CMS for 12 years
 Die hard Smashing Pumpkins fan!
 Organiser of the WordPress Brisbane Meetup group
 Co-organiser of WordCamp Gold Coast
Just a guy who is obsessed with WordPress!

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MY TOOLS OF CHOICE
 WAMP – Apache 2.2.22, Php 5.4.3, MySQL 5.5.24
 PhpStorm
 Sass + Compass.app
 Photoshop with CSSHat
 Github & Gists
 PNGGauntlet
 BackupBuddy
Use any software that makes you MOAR productive!

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PHPSTORM
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 On The Fly Error Checking
 PhpDoc Support
 Php Refactoring
 Code Formatting Configuration
 Code Completion
 Visual Debugging – Php (Xdebug or Zend Debugger) & JavaScript
 Awesome Merge Tool – Handy for complex Git conflicts
 PhpUnit support – Unit testing
 Frequent Updates 
https://gist.github.com/Rarst/1370155
http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/

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SASS & COMPASS.APP
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 Partials
 Mixins
 Nesting
 Sprites
Protip: Use a typography partial to generate editor-style.scss
http://sass-lang.com/
http://compass.handlino.com/
http://www.codeschool.com/paths/html-css#sass

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CSS HAT
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http://csshat.com/

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GITHUB & GISTS
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 Code on a plane!
 Cloud based
 Private & Public Repos
 Code collaboration
 Branching
 Gists
 Pull Requests!
https://github.com/
https://gist.github.com/BronsonQuick
Make the Octocat your friend!

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MY GITHUB STRUCTURE
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https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress-Skeleton
You might prefer Mark’s structure!

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GIT CRASH COURSE
Each time you do a `git push` it’ll go to the master branch!
 touch license.txt
 git init
 git add license.txt
 git commit –m “Add the GPL!”
 git remote add origin [email protected]:sennza/wordcamp-melb.git
 git push -u origin master
 git add themes
 git commit -m “Adds in the changes to the themes folder”
 git add .
 git commit --amend -m “Add in the changes to the themes and plugins”
 git push

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GIT CRASH COURSE
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http://gitready.com/
Once you go Git, you never go back!
 git checkout -b awesomesauce
Creates a new branch and checks it out so you can start working straight away
 git push –u origin awesomesauce
Pushes the awesomesauce branch to Github
 git checkout master
 git merge awesomesauce
Merge in your new feature to the master branch

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PNGGAUNTLET
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http://pnggauntlet.com/
 Free!
 Compress & convert your images
Because size matters!

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BACKUPBUDDY
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 Have a backup of an image of a ‘clients site’
 Clone and migrate a site to your localhost
 Migrate from localhost to live!
http://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/
Buy BackupBuddy now dammit!

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ANALYSING THE PHOTOSHOP FILE
 List out custom features
 Find the custom fonts
 List out the page templates (Widget Areas)
 Post Formats
 Custom Post Types
 Custom TinyMCE CSS Styles
It’ll only take you 10 minutes but it’ll save you hours!

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CUSTOM POST TYPES
Make them as easy as possible to use!

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CUSTOM TINYMCE CSS STYLES
Better than annoying shortcodes! 

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SETTING UP THE DEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENT – NEW SITE
 Create a new folder in www
 Create a blank database in phpMyAdmin
 Extract BackupBuddy `image` of a typical client install
 Define (‘WP_DEBUG, true’); in wp-config.php
 Git init inside wp-content
 Add items that you don’t want to track to .gitignore
 Add Github remote and Git push!
For a brand spanking new WordPress site!

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SETTING UP THE DEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENT – REDESIGN
 Create a new folder in www
 Create a blank database in phpMyAdmin
 Extract BackupBuddy backup of existing site
 Define (‘WP_DEBUG, true’); in wp-config.php
 Git init inside wp-content
 Add items that you don’t want to track to .gitignore
 Add Github remote and Git push!
For a redesign of a WordPress site!

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MAKING A STARTER THEME
 Use Underscores or Twenty Twelve
`Start from scratch every time` - Said no one ever!
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http://underscores.me/
https://github.com/Automattic/_s

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SETTING UP SASS PARTIALS & VARIABLES
 Setup scss partials
 Setup variable for colours & layout
 Make mixins – Buttons
CSS that’s easy to maintain and faster to write!

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SASS PARTIALS
Break your CSS into logic files!

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SASS VARIABLES
Let Sass keep track of colours and widths

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SASS VARIABLES
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/* Tablet Widths */
$tabletBaseWidth: 768px;
$tabletContentWidth: 451px;
$tabletSidebarWidth: 255px;
.primary {
width: percentage($tabletContentWidth / $tabletBaseWidth);
}
.primary {
width: 58.72396%;
}

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SASS MIXINS
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@mixin buttons {
@include inline-block;
@include border-radius();
@include background-clip();
color: #fff;
font-size: ( $base-font-size / 16px ) * 1em;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 6px 24px;
margin: 0 10px 10px 0;
cursor: pointer;
@include text-shadow(0 -1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, .3));
}

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SASS MIXINS
These 8 CSS lines create 32 lines of cross browser CSS!
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.blue-button {
@include buttons;
@include filter-gradient(#0071bf, #0083c5); // prevents bg color from leaking outside the border
background-color: #0071bb; // layer fill content
@include box-shadow(0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, .25), inset 0 2px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, .25), inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, .1));
// drop shadow, inner shadow and inner glow
@include background-image(linear-gradient(bottom, rgba(0, 0, 0, .35) 0%, rgba(255, 255, 255, .35) 100%)); // gradient overlay
&:hover {
@include filter-gradient(#0083c5, #0071bf);
@include background-image(linear-gradient(bottom, rgba(255, 255, 255, .35) 0%, rgba(0, 0, 0, .35) 100%));
}
&:visited {
color: #fff;
}
}

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THEME UNIT TEST DATA & TESTS
 Pretend that your theme is going onto WordPress.org
 Use the test data in the Codex
 Follow the checklist of testing
 Make sure your designer styles the Layout Test
 Make sure your designer styles the Images Tests
 Gravity Forms Layouts
 Your clients will be happier and won’t ‘break it’
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http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test
http://developer.wordpress.com/themes/
https://gist.github.com/BronsonQuick/5334350
https://gist.github.com/BronsonQuick/5334781

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LAYOUT TEST

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IMAGES TEST

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RESPONSIVE TESTING
http://html.adobe.com/edge/inspect/

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DEPLOYMENT
 VPS - BackupBuddy
 WPEngine – Staging or Production
Deployment always varies!

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ONGOING MAINTENANCE
 InfiniteWP
 Automatic Upgrader
Mad props to Gary Pendergast for Automatic Upgrader!
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http://infinitewp.com/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/automatic-updater/

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FUTURE WORKFLOW
 Vagrant + Puppet
 Auto Deployment with Github or Beanstalk
Keep refining your workflow! Try new tools!
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https://github.com/10up/varying-vagrant-vagrants
http://beanstalkapp.com

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CREDITS
 Settings designed by Michael Zenaty from The Noun Project
 Test Tube designed by Benton Rochester from The Noun Project
 Food Mixer designed by Simon Child from The Noun Project
 Hard Hat designed by Jon Trillana from The Noun Project
 Rocket designed by Cris Dobbins from The Noun Project
 Oil from The Noun Project
 Tardis designed by Michael Howarth from The Noun Project
 Like designed by Marwa Boukarim from The Noun Project
Mad props to The Noun Project crew!

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THANKS ALOT
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http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13237

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Bronson Quick: My WordPress Development Workflow

Bronson Quick: My WordPress Development Workflow

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