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Hi guys,

using a theme doesn’t mean that I don’t code. so I don’t want to copy a file via ftp edit and upload it again via ftp and refresh the browser anymore. so I wanted to ask you if you know a better workflow for these small tweaks.

At work we are doing RoR developing with git github and jenkins for deployment. so when commiting some stuff jenkins is doing a buildtask and then deploying to staging enviroment.

I had a look and found bitbucket with free privat repos. this okay so far. and i think i will also be able to set up a local enviroment. but the problem is to find a way to deploy the code in bitbucket to the server …

so setting up jenkins, don’t know if i’m able to do that. do you know an easy way to do that, at best for free.

how is your workflow?

thank
yasin

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Yasin,

Thank you for your questions!

I have rather simple workflow:

  • I develop everything locally and use MAMP (WAMP and XAMPP for Windows) for Apache, MySQL, and PHP to run WordPress on it.
  • As code editor I use Sublime Text with several extensions (for Sublime they are called packages). Here you can see most of them:
    Sublime Text Packages
    Sublime Text Packages476×578 44.2 KB

    This helps me with code styling, code suggestions, WordPress related function suggestions and much more. Packages are they key here as I also have Browser refresh that automatically refreshes my browser once I save changes.
  • For version control I use Git. I am not huge fan of terminal style, so I use Github’s official application.
  • I also use Chrome Dev Tools a lot. Dev Tools are opened all the time for testing on different resolutions and devices etc.

I almost never work on a website while it is online unless I need to make some minor changes that would require to edit one file or even a single line.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

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thanks for reply. guess the auto refresh after saving is pretty cool :slight_smile:

so you are using git with github?

and I’m not sure if i got the last sentence right; you just change minor things on live websites? and this means you are doing it via ftp? so you don’t have a automated deploying after commit and push to remote (github/bitbucket)?

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Yes, if I need to make changes I usually do them via FTP but it doesn’t happen often. The thing is that I am mainly working with WordPress themes that can be entirely tested locally and I don’t need to deploy them anywhere. I push them for review at WordPress.org, ThemeForest or elsewhere and then I can install them on my demo sites or they are automatically downloaded from WordPress or ThemeForest.

So my themes basically lives as a .zip files on are waiting for users to be downloaded as I no longer do any custom development work for my clients. If you need something for rapid deployment this approach is definitely not for you.

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yep, anyhow, thank you for this

and have a nice week :slight_smile: