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Wordpress tools list focused on local dev, from a guy that do not use Wordpress
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Warning: I am not a Wordpress dev or user, I try to avoid working with it as much as possible. So some asumptions may be trolling or totally wrong because I overlooked something. You may give feedback if you wish.

Assumptions

Recently I got to work with a Wordpress instance. When I work, I work locally, but Wordpress is thought like an online tools only, for example:

  • Working locally mean that you need to modify some DB fields when you export it to live
  • By default there is no dev server provided directly with WP you have to install/provide your own
  • Wordpress seems to not work with an arbitrary port, it always redirect me to :80/:430 (depending of its config), thus you can not simply do something like php -S localhost:8080, and since :80/:443 need root, it means running sudo php -S localhost:80 (HAHA NOPE)
  • Working with dev/staging/production seems not trivial
  • As far as I know and find, the official doc is rather sparse on those issues

Other assumptions:

  • I am used to the shell
  • I do not like clika-clika interfaces, I work with a keyboard not a mouse
  • My dev machine is not even close of the production env. So...
  • ... dealing with a local install of a server+config on my dev machine is a no-no (VM/container were invented for that)
  • I work on GNU/Linux
  • I am not a fan of PHP (but that should be the obvious feeling about PHP for any serious dev)
  • As much as possible I want to avoid ugly hacks like modifying the source code for my dev thingy to work

So I was looking for tools that can help making modern dev workflow with Wordpress bearable.

Result

After some research and some lazy Twitter asking I find all those ressources. (in no particular order)

Note that I did not use those tools yet, this is just what I found. Some may be good, some may be lame. Dunno.

Tools

Plugins

Tutorials

Dirty hacks

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