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Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2022

Delicious Brains has a new tutorial about Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo that's worth a look. Robo is an open-source task runner like Gulp and Grunt using PHP instead of JavaScript. It's used by Drupal's Drush, that project's…

Developers who use Grunt can rejoice…

April 8, 2016

Developers who use Grunt can rejoice that the 1.0.0 version has been officially released (and no longer supports Node.js v0.8).

I was looking around today to…

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2015

I was looking around today to see what people have come up with for solid starter themes based on Underscores, but with some more opinions built in. Surprisingly, I didn't find as many as I hoped, but the one from…

Takeaways from interviewing 13 great WordPress developers

Fred Meyer

August 10, 2015

Development

After interviewing thirteen WordPress developers for a book on getting up and running with WordPress development, I have some key takeaways that I'd like to share with you.

The ABCs of the web

Brian Krogsgard

January 7, 2015

DevelopmentPlanet

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.

A new look and a new domain

Brian Krogsgard

January 7, 2015

BusinessDesign

The new Post Status design is an alpha, but I wanted to show readers as soon as I could. Also, the site has a new domain and utilizes HTTPS everywhere. A lot has gone into it so far, and there is much left to do.

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

Brady Vercher

July 8, 2014

DevelopmentPlanet

According to the Polygots Make blog, WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. To put that in perspective, more than a third of existing WordPress installations are non-English and in his keynote at WordCamp Seattle,…

Make your own WordPress admin themes

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2013

Design

As I noted in my feature post on WordPress 3.8, the new WordPress build tools (using Grunt) and the port of the admin CSS to Sass make it much easier for WordPress core to make new admin themes. Well, with…

New tools for WordPress core development

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2013

WordPress News

Daryl Koopersmith posted on the Make Wordpress Core blog about some new tools and strategies for WordPress core development. The new setup will allow code, testing mechanisms, and build tools to all be under one roof. WordPress core is also…

Automated WordPress development

Brian Krogsgard

June 8, 2013

Development

Want to stop wasting time manually linting, concatenation, and minifying style and script files in your WordPress theme or plugin? Then you should start using Grunt - a cool tool that does it all for you. 10up has even released…