The document details a presentation by Ivan Kristianto at the Jakarta WordPress Meetup about local WordPress development using VVV (Varying Vagrant Vagrants). It highlights the advantages of VVV over other options like XAMPP or MAMP, outlining its features and providing a step-by-step setup guide. Additional tools such as WP-CLI and Xdebug for debugging, along with MailCatcher for email handling, are also discussed.

1. JAKARTA WORDPRESS
MEETUP #9
Local WordPress Development With VVV

2. WHO AM I?
My Name is Ivan Kristianto
Jakarta WordPress Meetup Organizer
WordPress Core Contributor
WordPress Plugin Author and Contributor
WordCamp Organizer

3. BEFORE WE START
Please visit our website:
https://wp-id.org
Please join our Facebook
group:
https://www.facebook.com/
groups/WordPressDevID/
Please join our Slack:
https://chat.wp-id.org

5. OK, LET’S START

6. VVV 2 JUST RELEASED!

7. WHY USE VVV?
The XAMPP or MAMP? It’s limited
and complex setup for WordPress
development.
Ready out of the box, customized
and built for WordPress development
It has everythingYou need for
WordPress Development
A recommended setup for
WordPress Developer and for
WordPressVIP.

8. WHAT IS INCLUDED?
Nginx: The Web Server
MariaDB 10.1.x (drop-in replacement for MySQL): Database Server
php-fpm 7.0.x: Well You know it, to run PHP
WP-CLI: WordPress Command Line Tools
Memcached: Memory Caching System
PHPUnit: To Unit Test your code
Composer: Dependency Manager for PHP
NodeJs: Server-side Javascript environment
Mailcatcher: Catch mail and servers

9. SETTING UP VVV
1. Download & Install VirtualBox and Vagrant
2. Install vagrant host updater:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
3.Install vagrant triggers:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-triggers
4. Clone VVV:
git clone git://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV.git vvv
5. Startup VVV:
vagrant up
6. Get a cup of coffee, and listen to your favorite music! It will take a while to finish.

11. SETTING A NEW SITE
I recommend to setup a new site for each project You
work, for example: localdomain.dev
Setting up a new site is “tricky” at this time. We need a
workaround a little
I recommend to use: Variable VVV ( https://github.com/
bradp/vv )
Let’s create a new site.

12. WP-CLI IS THE BEST
WP-CLI is ready out of the box
It take sometime to learn, but when You know it, It is faster for
development
To use WP-CLI:
vagrant ssh
cd /srv/www/<yoursite>/htdocs
wp —version
Checkout WP-CLI available command:
http://wp-cli.org/commands/

13. DEBUGGING WITH XDEBUG
Still using var_dump to debug your code? Let’s take debugging to
another level!
Debugging in WordPress is never been easier using XDebug
You can trace your code execution and do profiling as well
Setup your XDebug with PHPStorm
How to setup click here
Demo

14. CATCH EMAIL WITH
MAILCATCHER
Most of the time your website will send email. And to
debug it from your local env, you need to catch those
emails. This is what Mailcatcher for.
Go to: http://vvv.dev:1080
Just try to send any email, and You will see it will catch
there.
Demo

15. MORE VVV INSTALLED
PACKAGES
Git
Subversion
Phpmyadmin
Memcached
Webgrind
Grunt-CLI
PhpMemcachedAdmin
Etc..

16. –Ivan Kristianto
“HappyVVV!”