The Swiss Knife of a
WordPress Developer
Technical Tool Guide

In the beginning

Then automation take over

Goals
➔ Less time to develop the
code
➔ Easier way to track errors
➔ Standards check
➔ Version control
➔ Testing
➔ Deploy safe and quickly

How many tools do you
need to start developing?
communicate with
the rest of the world?

Just enough!

Editor
➔ Light
➔ Open Source
➔ Extendable

Meet Atom.
“A hackable text editor for
the 21st Century”

Your Friends - the
editors plugins.

Terminal
plus

AutoComplete

Documentation

Keep the
standards
Keep the standards

PHP
CodeSniffer

Linter
A linter is a small program that checks code for
stylistic or programming errors

JS Hint

“is a toolkit that helps you
automate painful or time-
consuming tasks in your
development workflow.”

“The Grunt ecosystem is huge
and it's growing every day. With
literally hundreds of plugins to
choose from, you can use Grunt
to automate just about anything
with a minimum of effort.”

Version Control All the Things

Git time machine

Merge
conflicts

Local install
➔ Easy set up
➔ Quick ways to switch
between WordPress
versions
➔ DataBase migration

Capistrano
As an automation tool

Switch between WordPress Versions

Mercury Vagrant
“Mercury project is meant
to allow people in the
WordPress community to
run a single Vagrant for
developing, debugging,
and deploying HHVM
based code.”

WP CLI
WP-CLI is a set of
command-line tools for
managing WordPress
installations. You can
update plugins, set up
multisite installs and
much more, without using
a web browser.

wp core
wp plugin install
wp theme
➔ Download, install, update and
otherwise manage WordPress
proper.
➔ Installs a specific plugin
➔ Manage themes.(activate, delete,
disable)

WP REST CLI

//When I wrote this, only God and I
understood what I was doing
//Now, God only knows

Tests
➔ Check new features
➔ Test compatibility
with old code
➔ Try different roles
and actions

Php Browser

Web Browser and Selenium

WP Browser
● WPBrowser
● WPWebDriver
● WPDb
● WPLoader
● WPBootstrapper
● WPQueries
● WPRequests

Deployment

Capistrano
As a deployment tool

Git push
Add remote locally
- check remotes – git remote -v
- add remote – git remote add
<your repo ssh link>
git push <branch name needed>

Thank you!
Pros and Cons

Thank you!
@iv_wp

Resources
http://capistranorb.com/
https://wp-cli.org/
https://github.com/danielbachhuber/wp-rest-cli
https://github.com/wpengine/hgv
http://gulpjs.com/
http://gruntjs.com/
http://codeception.com/
https://github.com/lucatume/wp-browser
http://codeception.com/for/wordpress
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