From the course: WordPress: Workflows

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From the course: WordPress: Workflows

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Our workflows

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- [Instructor] This course is going to cover a number of different seemingly unrelated topics. So let's go through each workflow and what you'll learn. Then, you can decide how you'd like to take this course. First up is building your first WordPress website. We won't write any code here. We'll just explore resources for putting together a WordPress site. This includes creating a project checklist of everything we need, choosing the right domain and hosting, how to evaluate themes and plug-ins, using the customizer and other customizing methods, and more. This workflow is great if you've used WordPress, but want to set up your own site for the first time. Next up we have building a child theme for WordPress. We'll dive into setting up a local environment, including how to migrate a live site to local, how to test our themes with content and add new content, as well as how to make the child theme live. While we won't cover exactly how to develop a child theme, you'll have everything else you need to develop a child theme the right way. The third workflow takes you through developing a client site. We'll cover such complexities as clearly defining roles for you and your clients, and their teams in some cases, creating multiple environments for developing and testing, using Git for version control and pushing changes to a staging server, testing the site, and finally taking it live. You'll get lots of resources for learning the specifics, like Diving into Git, but this workflow will give you a good overview of how you should run your WordPress development project. Our final workflow, advanced build tools, will give you a look at what kinds of tools are being used in professional development settings, as well as what's becoming popular. You'll learn about build tools like Grunt and Gulp, React and developing for Gutenberg, and static site generators. If you have experience creating client sites with WordPress and you're wondering what's next, this workflow is for you. So now that you have an idea of what you'll learn in each workflow, it's time to decide how you'll take the course. You can take it in order, learning about each workflow, or you can bookmark this course and take each workflow when you are ready to implement. So if you're building a child theme, you can jump right to that today and save the client site workflow for another day. No matter what, this course can serve as a reference as you go deeper into your professional web development career.

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