In part 1 we looked at how to store and manage your WordPress site in Git, however we deliberately didn’t include anything in the wp-content folder in our Git repo. This means that you would need to manually migrate any themes and plugins that you have installed on your site.

One way to get around manually having to migrate your themes and plugins using our method is to use Composer (a package manager for PHP), so in this post we’ll be looking at how you can use it to manage the themes and plugins we didn’t store in our Git repository last time.

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Currently if i register a custom post type, i have not been able to set 'capabilities' to 'attachment' and get an interface in the Admin area. i would like to do this so i can "extend" the type of attachment and make it a specific item that a client can work with. I like the builtin functionality of having attachments with parent posts and all that and i do not want to have to duplicate it on my own.

In order to follow this tutorial, make sure you have Docker installed and working on your development computer (verify it by running $ docker -v in your command line). You don't need to have any prior Docker experience as I will try to explain things from the ground up. via Pocket

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We have already shared a code to help you about passing PHP variables to JavaScript function. Now we are going to share a more practical example by using that code snippet i.e Using Ajax in WordPress.

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As Partner and Technical Lead, I encourage my employees to always be learning with an eye on improving the quality and efficiency of what we deliver to our clients. As an agency, it can be difficult to lock down a workflow. Each project can be vastly different. Yet, we still need to align our workflows and development environments as much as possible to ensure productivity is at its peak. sd

This guide was created to manage varying client work. I’ve spent most of my days recently inside of Vagrant machines banging on Python (Django) and Ruby (Rails). While utilizing MVC patterns and Foundation. Working in these true development environments opened my eyes to where our WordPress workflow failed. This post details how we built an efficient and repeatable workflow for teams developing on WordPress.

This article will discuss how to register fields and field groups via the functions.php file. There are many benefits to using PHP to register fields, the main of which is customization and distribution. The ability to define fields within the theme’s files allows developers to avoid any data loss when working across multiple environments (dev/staging/live). It also reduces calls to the database and can speed up your website.

If you only require a solution for distribution across multiple environments, please familiarize yourself with the local json feature as this solves the issue with minimal effort.

In this article I’ll be taking a look at how to build a simple yet robust workflow for developing sites that require PHP and MySQL. I’ll show you how to use Vagrant to create and run a web server on your own computer, with the version of PHP your live site runs. I also demonstrate a process for using a hosted service to deploy files in a robust way to your live server.

But lately (several months) I’ve been thinking can we use SVG icons in Social Menu instead of icon fonts. Leland Fiegel picked up my question in Twitter and rolled his own idea. It’s not bad solution but what if we could do this without Javascript.

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Adds a user-friendly multilingual dynamic content management. [Free alternative to WPML]

Sage is a WordPress starter theme based on HTML5 Boilerplate, gulp, Bower, and Bootstrap Sass, that will help you make better themes.

Ideally, we should all be developing our code in our own little space on our own little local server. This allows us to easily make changes without messing up production code or stepping over other's work. This is usually cost prohibitive so we're "forced" to use virtual machines to make this a reality.

The problem we face is that each developer needs to have a virtual machine that is setup exactly (or nearly exactly) like our production server. This requires a long list of configuration changes that need to be made on every machine. For example, install the apache package, update this configuration file, setup MySQL so you can access the databases remotely. Then we run into more problems when additional changes are needed because the developer has to take time out of their schedule to make them on each machine. There are also passwords that have to be remembered and /etc/host changes that need to be made. You'll be in even worse shape if the deployment consists of multiple VMs.

The primary goal of Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV) is to provide an approachable development environment with a modern server configuration.

VVV is ideal for developing themes and plugins as well as for contributing to WordPress core.

Redux is a simple, truly extensible options framework for WordPress themes and plugins.

Accessibility ready barebones theme

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I’ll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

Setting up a local environment for WordPress is a common need for developers. Since everything runs on your computer, loading times are significantly lower and you can safely test things before you try them out in a live production environment.
Local WordPress installations aren’t just for coders, though. As a user, local environments let you try out themes and plugins much more quickly, create as many installations as you need, and play around with WordPress without fear of wreaking havoc on your live website.
Many people use XAMPP or MAMP instead of the somewhat newer Vagrant. These are great choices but Vagrant is a lot more flexible and just as easy.
In this guide I’ll give you easy to follow, instructions on how to set up Vagrant you can copy and paste. We’ll go from zero to a fully functioning WordPress installation, so let’s dig in!