Goals: – Keep a local WordPress installation under version control (but ignore WordPress core files) – Use WP-Skeleton (wordpress core as submodule in separated folder, content and config files in root) – Use the starter theme Roots 101 – Deploy to a staging and production server (depending on the current Git branch?) – Keep uploads out of version control, sync them separately – Use a good DB migration strategy – If possible: automate repetitive tasks Read More
Tag: Development Cycle
WordPress, Git and WP-Skeleton – a tutorial
Following a series of videos from Amelia Briscoe to setup a workflow with wordpress and git
1. Importing a wordpress git repository
– Sign up to a bitbucket account
– Import Jaquith’s WordPress-Skeleton into Bitbucket
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Develop an Information Architecture for a complex website
Information Architecture
From: Information Achitecture Resource Pack
Information Architecture involves the organisation of information into a structure that helps people find the information they need. To achieve this on a website, the designer needs to consider:
- The purpose of the website
- How the website content can achieve this purpose
- How to organise the content to ensure it is easy to navigate
- How to ensure that the website content can be easily maintained
Developing website Information Architecture is an important early step in the overall design and development process. Read More
Design & Development of your WordPress CMS
original article by Joost de Valk
1. From Goal to Site Structure
Determining the goal for the site
- Who are your audience?
- What are you going to offer them
- Why would they be coming to your site
- Which actions do you want the to take
Write down all the things the site should do/contain.