Fresh off the heels of WordCamp US, here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space. There were several fantastic talks about design, accessibility, WP-CLI, blocks, and FSE at the event. We’re looking forward to highlighting some videos once they’re online.
Taylor Lovett posted on the 10up blog the release of WP Docker, an open source Docker configuration optimized for local WordPress development. WP Docker is meant to address shortcomings of running multiple VVV and Vagrant instances while providing greater flexibility in environment creation and distribution. WP Docker includes support for PHP7, MariaDB, NGINX, Elasticsearch, Gearman,…
Varying Vagrant Vagrants has released version 2.0.0, and this official release post goes into some of the new bits. There’s a new method for configuring VVV, including the ability to choose PHP 5.6, 7.0, or 7.1 for your project and let the VVV Custom Site Template repository provide “a flexible base for new projects.” In…
Tom J Nowell, VIP Wrangler at WordPress.com VIP for Automattic, covers what’s new in Varying Vagrant Vagrants (version 2.0). Tom states that it’s “undergone a small transformation for the better” and i would agree. The provisioning system for VVV has been rewritten along with updates to the configuration file. If you use VVV now or…
Gilbert Pellegrom compares local development with Vagrant versus Docker. He concludes that while Docker is interesting, Vagrant is a bit easier to get going, and I quite agree. There are also more mature and well developed tools for WordPress with Vagrant. And, one of the nice features of Docker is not needing a VM, except…
Use Vagrant. No, use Docker. No, Docker requires Vagrant for most people. No, Otto is the new Vagrant that uses Vagrant and does what Docker does but is less complicated. Sounds complicated. Call me when you get it figured out.
Post Status Draft is a podcast about WordPress news and events hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week we discuss strategies for working locally, Underscore.js templating, and transparency in WordPress businesses.
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.
I’ve used local development environments for as long as I can remember. They’ve always been a fluid part of being a developer. The biggest pain point was keeping everything upgraded at all times and switching from one stack to another. In case you didn’t notice, I said ”was”. This is because in the Spring of…
Believe it or not, some WordPress developers code on Windows. This can cause problems with Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV) using VirtualBox if Hyper-V is also enabled. I’ve taken the time to implement a VVV setup on top of Hyper-V to reap the benefits of both local WordPress development and Windows’ native virutalization layer.
Here we learn to do your own custom WordPress install in Varrying Vagrant Vagrants on a custom domain for a client site.
An overview of using Varrying Vagrant Vagrants as your local development environment.
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