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DevCraft: ProTips for WordPress Teams
The document outlines essential components of a mature development process for WordPress teams, emphasizing the importance of task management, source control, and configuration management among others. It provides practical tips and tools for effectively managing development environments, automating processes, and ensuring code quality through iterative development and automated testing. The author, Eric Marden, stresses that a reliable process is crucial for delivering consistent results and improving workflow in WordPress development.
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- 1. DevCraft ProTips for WordPressteams Eric Marden http://xentek.net
- 2. Who I Am ChiefTechnology Officer at Blueprint Design Studio 14 years experience WordPress Contributor, Plugin Dev, Theme Author Polyglot Programmer One of the three most important people in WordPress
- 3. any sufficiently advancedtechnology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C. Clarke
- 4. then you needa set of incantations you can count on if your job is to wield that magic for your clients
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- 6. what you needis a process a set of rituals designed to create reliability, predictability, and stability into your workflow
- 7. the development processis fraught with dangers the process is your saving throw
- 8. components of amature development process • task management • source control • multiple server environments • configuration management • data/content synchronization • continuous integration • one step deployments • iterative development • automated testing
- 9. task management the methodby which you describe what you see in your head so that other people know what the hell you’re talking about
- 10. task management break downthe project into discrete tasks
- 11. task management write yourtickets as use cases
- 12. task management every taskon a project should be documented in a system you trust tools: trac unfuddle bugzilla
- 13. task management provides visibility,tracking, and project status
- 14. components of amature development process • task management • source control • multiple server environments • configuration management • data/content synchronization • continuous integration • one step deployments • iterative development • automated testing
- 15. source control the meansby which your cover your collective development ass and ensure that the team is always on the same page
- 16. source control every project,no matter how small, belongs in a repository. no exceptions
- 17. source control commit earlyand often each time you’ve created anything of minor consequence on your project, check it in
- 18. source control commit messagesmatter. they provide the why the tool already provides the what and the where
- 19. source control vendor repositories,svn:externals, and other advanced workflows
- 20. source control there isno other tool more crucial to your development process you owe it to yourself, to your clients, and your teammates to learn your source control system like the back of your hand
- 21. components of amature development process • task management • source control • multiple server environments • configuration management • data/content synchronization • continuous integration • one step deployments • iterative development • automated testing
- 22. multiple server environments thestrategy you use to keep from blowing shit up
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- 24. multiple server environments local→ development → staging → production
- 25. multiple server environments speedsdevelopment and tightens the feedback loop
- 26. components of amature development process • task management • source control • multiple server environments • configuration management • data/content synchronization • continuous integration • one step deployments • iterative development • automated testing
- 27. configuration management the techniqueyou use to avoid clobbering your server environments and breaking your site
- 28. configuration management problem: eachserver environment will likely have different file paths, and database requirements solution: make your wp-config smarter
- 29. configuration management 1. yourserver needs to know who it is
- 30. typical apache virtualhost configuration, with an environment variable set
- 31. 1. your serverneeds to know who it is 2. your site needs to know which server its on configuration management
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- 33. configuration management 1. yourserver needs to know who it is 2. your site needs to know which server its on 3. your configuration should adapt to this knowledge
- 34. replace define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);in standard wp-config.php with this instead
- 35. defining constants overrideswhat’s in the database
- 36. make it easyto move your site from environment to environment configuration management
- 37. use absolute relativeurls where possible and employ built-in variables, functions and options configuration management
- 38. components of amature development process • task management • source control • multiple server environments • configuration management • data/content synchronization • continuous integration • one step deployments • iterative development • automated testing
- 39. data synchronization the processyou use to schlep content from server to server
- 40. data synchronization script it,or use a database tool like navicat
- 41. data synchronization this isa messy problem and requires intimate knowledge of the state of your database
- 42. data synchronization bless oneserver as the source of truth, and guard it with your life
- 43. components of amature development process • task management • source control • multiple server environments • configuration management • data/content synchronization • continuous integration • one step deployments • iterative development • automated testing
- 44. continuous integration the robotsyou employ to keep your dev server up-to-date
- 45. continuous integration ci software: cruisecontrol.rb cijoe integrity hudson xinc
- 46. continuous integration use abuild script to automate tasks build script tools: phing apache ant
- 47. components of amature development process • task management • source control • multiple server environments • configuration management • data/content synchronization • continuous integration • one step deployments • iterative development • automated testing
- 48. one step deployments thesoftware you use to keep you from botching your code deployments
- 49. one step deployments ftpis antiquated and insecure and should be avoided your source control software should be used instead
- 50. one step deployments manualprocesses will always be error-prone, automate as much possible reuse your build script and/or use capistrano
- 51. one step deployments makepublishing code changes dead simple
- 52. components of amature development process • task management • source control • multiple server environments • configuration management • data/content synchronization • continuous integration • one step deployments • iterative development • automated testing
- 53. iterative development a styleof building websites in small increments to improve quality and ensure a clean consistent design to your code base
- 54. iterative development be loose, be flexible, be nimble this is what they mean by ‘going agile’
- 55. components of amature development process • task management • source control • multiple server environments • configuration management • data/content synchronization • continuous integration • one step deployments • iterative development • automated testing
- 56. automated testing the codeyou write, before you write code
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- 58. automated testing lowers thecost of making changes and minimizes the risk that new code will break old code
- 59. components of amature development process • task management • source control • multiple server environments • configuration management • data/content synchronization • continuous integration • one step deployments • iterative development • automated testing
- 60. getting started care aboutyour craft learn your tools implement in small steps keep improving. always. your process is your product
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