Workflow – Page 2 – The Smithy

WordPress Deployment

Maybe the hardest part of the WordPress workflow: deployment from a local server to a remote server.

Some ideas and tricks I found around the web.

Put everything in the repo (not just the theme)
His ideal:
– WordPress in a subdirectory
– index, wp-config, themes and plugins in root. Ignore uploads (.gitignore) Read More

So, people seem to be exited about something called ‘Grunt’…

Let’s explore.

From the Grunt website:

Why should you use a task runner like Grunt?
In one word: automation. Automation of what? Well, such repetitive tasks as: minification, compilation, unit testing, linting etc.
Why Grunt?
The Grunt ecosystem is huge with hundred of plugins. Coffeescript, handlebars, jade, JS Hint, {less}, require.js. SASS, Stylus etc.

First create the folder you want as the web site root folder. Let’s say D:/MyNewTest/

then do: Apache > Alias directories > Add an alias

Next choose an alias: Read More