This document discusses various technical tools that can help WordPress developers work more efficiently. It recommends using Atom as a hackable text editor, PHP CodeSniffer and JS Hint to check code standards, and Grunt to automate tasks. It also recommends version control with Git, switching WordPress versions locally with Vagrant, using WP-CLI for managing WordPress installations from the command line, and testing with PHP Browser and Selenium. Capistrano and Git are presented as options for deployment.

1. The Swiss Knife of a
WordPress Developer
Technical Tool Guide

2. In the beginning

3. Then automation take over

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

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

6. Just enough!

7. Editor
➔ Light
➔ Open Source
➔ Extendable

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

9. Your Friends - the
editors plugins.

10. Terminal
plus

11. AutoComplete

12. Documentation

13. Keep the
standards
Keep the standards

14. PHP
CodeSniffer

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

16. JS Hint

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

18. “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.”

19. Version Control All the Things

20. Git time machine

21. Merge
conflicts

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

23. Capistrano
As an automation tool

25. Switch between WordPress Versions

26. 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.”

27. 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.

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

29. WP REST CLI

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

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

34. Php Browser

35. Web Browser and Selenium

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

37. Deployment

38. Capistrano
As a deployment tool

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

40. Thank you!
Pros and Cons

41. Thank you!
@iv_wp

42. 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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