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Modern WordPress Theme Development

Development Software

  • VirtualBox - Virtualization software for running local operating systems within your computer. This allows us have a full version of linux within our computers that better match how a live webserver works.
  • Vagrant - A tool for provisioning (creating) virtual machines.
  • VVV - A pre-built, community-supported Vagrant configuration for WordPress development.
  • 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 - (SCSS) A CSS preprocessing implementation that allows us to write much less CSS for a project. This basically makes CSS into a simple programming language.