Advanced WordPress Development Environments
Beau Lebens
Wow, pretty dry title huh? There’s no hiding from the fact that this will be a very technical session, but that’s what the people asked for, so that’s what they’ll get. I’ve been involved in web development for around 13 years now, with 10 of them being in PHP/MySQL development. The last 4 years have seen me spending inordinate amounts of time working specifically on WordPress/WPMU projects. I’ve picked up a few tricks along the way, and I’d like to share some of them with you in this session.
The plan is to take you all through some of the tools, tips, tricks, techniques and approaches towards development that might make your life a little easier, more efficient and generally less frustrating. We’ll look at, amongst other things:
- Setting up a local development environment the easiest way possible
- Database management
- Working with Subversion (specifically in relation to WordPress)
- DNS tricks
- Advanced WordPress installations
- Working with WordPress code
- Secure development environments
- Developing for multiple versions of WordPress
- Testing code and UI
The assumption is that people in this session are already developing themes or plugins, and that they’re looking for a little something extra to up their game. I have a LOT to cover in 30 minutes, so I’m going to blaze through what I’ve got and then take some questions, but slides will definitely be available afterward, as well as the outline I used to put this together (some parts didn’t make the cut). I’m hoping there are some folks attending who have a few tips of their own that we can collect as well.
If you’ve got anything in particular you’d like to see covered then feel free to post it in the comments here, and I’ll see you all in a few days now!
