Sal Ferrarello has shared a super…
Brian Krogsgard
Sal Ferrarello has shared a super in-depth and well explained sample .gitignore file that will help you avoid several common pitfalls working with Git and WordPress.
Contributing to Twenty Seventeen
Sami Keijonen
Sami Keijonen shares his experience as a first time contributor to the WordPress default theme building process. He primarily worked within the realm of SVG icons for the Twenty Seventeen theme.
I loved these charts from Yoav…
Brian Krogsgard
I loved these charts from Yoav Farhi on the "half-life" of WordPress code. The charts were generated from scrips authored by Erik Bernhardsson that he used to analyze Git projects. They show WordPress's growth (by lines of code) over the…
Tom McFarlin reminded me recently about…
Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin reminded me recently about a site that shows how you could write Git commit messages and why it matters. I'm guilty of this at times, when I have to fight against being a little lazy in my messages, especially…
VersionPress, which does Git version control…
VersionPress, which does Git version control for WordPress, has gone fully Open Source. Borek Bernard documents the history of the plugin and what the new direction means for VersionPress's development, including the release of a beta of VersionPress 3.0. I'm…
Upsource is a developer tool that…
Upsource is a developer tool that provides IDE-level code insight to help developers understand and review code changes. It supports both Git and SVN. I haven't used a tool exactly like this before, but it's features look pretty awesome. And Upsource is…
WordPress.com VIP is close to launching VIP Go — their next generation of hosting
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress.com VIP is working hard on launching new infrastructure that allows for a more traditional WordPress setup for VIP clients, and makes a variety of improvements that their service partners will enjoy. Called VIP Go, it's basically a VIP 2.0.…
Chris Reynolds goes mega in-depth with…
Chris Reynolds goes mega in-depth with a new post on WebDevStudios blog on their Git workflow.
Enterprise hosting options
Brian Krogsgard
Chris Lema wrote a post sharing his experiences with enterprise hosting options for WordPress, specifically options beyond WordPress.com VIP, which is often folks' go-to recommendation. He covers three specifically: Microsoft Azure: They have a long history of enterprise products and…
The ABCs of the web
Brian Krogsgard
We like to say it's easy to build a website, and to build it on top of WordPress. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But for just about anyone, it can be intimidating when you're just digging in. You've got to learn your ABCs before you can tell a great story. On the web -- especially as it gets more complicated -- there's a lot to learn to build and maintain a modern website.
Pagely has new plans, a new dashboard, and a new Amazon Web Services infrastructure
Brian Krogsgard
Pagely has made some drastic changes to their hosting platform over the last few months. They've moved from Firehost to being fully powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), led by their new CTO, Joshua Eichorn. Measuring tiers of hosting by…
Pantheon for WordPress: a website hosting and management platform
Brian Krogsgard
Pantheon is a website development, deployment, and hosting platform. But they aren't just any host. They like to think of their product as a hosting killer, because in their mind, they do much more than just hosting. I heard about…
How to properly change and reference various WordPress directories
Brian Krogsgard
Using WordPress, it's a poor assumption to assume the wp-content, plugins, and uploads folders are always in the same place, or even always called by those names. The configuration you see above is a sample WordPress root directory. This isn't…
Beanstalk’s guide to deploying WordPress
Curtis McHale
There are lots of ways to deploy WordPress and now Beanstalk has added their own take on deploying WordPress with Git and their deployment tools.
Seriously awesome tutorial on Git branching
Curtis McHale
It's a given that you need to know SVN to work with WordPress, but more and more developers are starting to use Git. If you're just starting out then here is an awesome interactive tutorial on Git branching.
Automate Git to SVN with Scatter
Brian Krogsgard
Evan Solomon has completely rewritten a command line automation tool for deploying to SVN with Git. It's called Scatter, and it looks pretty awesome. He's also got usage examples and a fully updated readme. This looks like a nice way…
