Developing our WordPress Theme

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Fun with WordPress Theme Development

This is a quick howto to get started with developing a wordpress theme using Vagrant

Install prerequisites

You'll need all of these:

If you're on a non-Unix workalike, you'll probably also want an SSH client, though it's not strictly necessary.

HOWTO

The steps below were taken on a Macintosh, but should really be more or less the same on any platform that Vagrant runs on.

Start with getting the prerequisites installed.

Then:

  • Make a new directory:
 mkdir sshc-dev
  • Clone the VCCW repo in there.
git clone git@github.com:vccw-team/vccw.git sshc-dev/
Cloning into 'sshc-dev'...
remote: Counting objects: 2362, done.
remote: Total 2362 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 2362
Receiving objects: 100% (2362/2362), 671.00 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (882/882), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
  • Change into that directory
cd sshc-dev
  • Fire the vm up so it can provision everything.
vagrant up
  • Clone the utility repo into your vm:
git clone git@github.com:cswingler/sshc-sitedevesetup.git
  • Check out our wordpress theme into the appropriate directory
cd www/wordpress/wp-content/
git clone git@github.com:sshchicago/untitled.git
  • Then, enter the VM and run the setup script.
vagrant ssh
bash /vagrant/sshc-sitedevesetup/sshc-vccw-setup.sh

And that's it! From there, you should be able to hit the VM and do things. Just go to http://192.168.33.10. Admin panel is at http://192.168.33.10/wp-admin, login/password admin/admin.

TODO

  • Set up Jenkins job to create tarballs of all of our existing assets/db dump
  • Document development flow
  • Automate deployments from our github repo up to test
  • Get test set up!