Beginners Guide to WordPress Workflow

Are you new to WordPress and unsure how to migrate a site manually? Do you want to start working locally but have no idea what tool to use and what needs to go where?

This session will talk about migration, local environments and how to connect everything together to find your perfect developer workflow.

Topics Covered:

WordPress Core Folder Structure & Database Structure
Version Control
Local Environments
Site Hosting
Migration Process

Transcript

1. WORDPRESS WORKFLOW BEGINNERS GUIDE TO
2. ABOUT ME Agency & Community Engineer 
 Instructor Executive Director / Founder
3. REACH OUT @tessak22
 me@tessak22.com tessakriesel.com Find me at other WordPress events!
4. WORDPRESS CORE
5. FOLDER STRUCTURE
6. ROOT DIRECTORY
7. WP-CONFIG.PHP
8. WP-ADMIN
9. WP-INCLUDES
10. WP-CONTENT
11. THEMES
12. LOTS OF THEME FILES
13. PLUGINS
14. UPLOADS
15. DATABASE STRUCTURE
16. WP_OPTIONS TABLE
17. WP_USERS, WP_USERMETA TABLES
18. WP_TERMS, WP_TERM_RELATIONSHIPS, WP_TERM_TAXONOMY
19. WP_COMMENTS, WP_COMMENTMETA
20. WHAT COMES NEXT? NOW WHAT? WHAT COMES NEXT?
21. Working Locally Version Control Site Hosting
22. VERSION CONTROL
23. WHY VERSION CONTROL?
24. WHAT IS GIT? Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
25. GIT VS GITHUB
26. GIT REPOSITORY HOSTING
27. COMMAND LINE
28. GIT GUI’S
29. .GITIGNORE FILE
30. EXAMPLE Let’s create a new WordPress repo!
31. USING GIT WITH SITE HOSTING
32. WORKING LOCALLY
33. TOOLS TO WORK LOCALLY
34. CLEAN FOLDERS Setup a “www” or “sites” folder in the root directory of your computer. As you create projects, create subfolders for each project and include all project files in there. This will also be easier for when you start using command line and for your local environment tool.
35. INSTALL WORDPRESS 1. Create Database 2. Copy over files from WordPress.org download 3. Setup your local environment - this varies depending on tool 4. Navigate to the url for your local environment 5. Run WordPress Install 6. If you are using git, you should do your first commit of your WordPress site
36. EDITORS AND IDEAS
37. MORE ADVANCED LOCAL TOOLS
38. SITE HOSTING
39. SELF VS MANAGED
40. SHARED HOSTING ★Cheaper ★Noisy Neighbor Issues ★Learn things - possibly the hard way ★Lots of competition means they work harder ★More Control ★No Limits
41. MANAGED HOSTING ★Costs More ★Fast & Secure ★Great Support ★Dev Tools ★3rd Party Integrations ★Automated Updates & Backups ★Less Control
42. AWESOME SHARED HOSTING PROVIDERS
43. AWESOME MANAGED HOSTING PROVIDERS
44. MIGRATION
45. MOVING FILES
46. MOVE DATABASE
47. SEARCH & REPLACE URL’S
48. WP MIGRATE DB PRO
49. FIND ME AT THE HAPPINESS BAR!
50. TESSAKRIESEL.COM/FEEDBACK