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Jonathan Daggerhart edited this page Oct 25, 2015
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Let's be honest, this guide is for beginners who are ready to jump into the deep end of best practices.
This document aims to get new WordPress developers up to speed by providing straight forward instructions for creating a theme using modern tools and workflow. By following along with this document you will end up with a local development environment, and a custom WordPress theme that uses SASS and lives within a git repo.
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VirtualBox - Virtualization software for running other operating systems within your computer. This allows us have a full version of linux within our computers that better matches how a live web server works.
- Vagrant - A tool for provisioning (creating) virtual machines.
- VVV - A pre-built, community-supported Vagrant configuration for WordPress development.
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Git - Version control system for managing code during development. Easily allows for tracking changes, and merging new code into an existing project.
- SourceTree - A GUI available on Windows and Mac for managing Git projects. This makes Git much easier to use, as we won't have to learn the command line interface.
- GitHub.com - A website that provides free Git repositories for both open source and private projects.
- SASS - A CSS pre-processing implementation that allows us to write much less CSS for a project. This basically makes CSS into a simple programming language. We will be using the SCSS flavor (supported by the SASS team), because it looks more like regular CSS.
- _s - (Underscores) is a very simple WordPress starter-theme. Perfect for creating a brand new theme from scratch as it is completely unopinionated in its structure, and adheres to WordPress best practices out of the box.
- Bootstrap - A CSS framework for easily making great responsive websites.