December 22, 2015 — I knew there had to be a better way. I went on a mission to find the ultimate development and deployment setup. Thankfully there are tons of options out there now (Vagrant, Docker, Capistrano, Ansible, etc) — but it’s still tricky getting them up and running smoothly. Save yourself hours of exploring tools and technologies by learning from my successes and failures. I will present a brief overview of the current state of deployment tools and then walk you through two of my favorites, followed by an open discussion for individuals to share what works well for them and ideas on best practices for the WP community.

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October 28, 2015 — Cowboy code, FTP to a development server, work locally and FTP, work locally and push changes with version control. There are so many different environments available for developing and deploying WordPress sites that it can seem a little daunting, and figuring out how to make it all work is even more so. Explore the different ways to deploy a website from a local environment, and learn how you can exponentially reduce your deployment time with a few scripts.

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June 13, 2015 — Comment utiliser l’intégration continue et la validation des développements, dans le cadre de WordPress?

Comment automatiser les tests, les déploiements, le workflow de développement et les intégrer dans son travail quotidien?

Il n’est pas très courant aujourd’hui de se poser ce genre de question quant à la vie du code d’un site web. Ce ne sont pas des projets qui sont traités avec le même égard au niveau de la qualité du code, parce que c’est « juste » de l’intégration…

Stéphane Hulard propose de revenir sur son expérience autour de la mise en place de pratique pour la fiabilisation des développements autour des projets utilisant WordPress avec une explication détaillée des outils et méthodes qu’il utilise de la mise en place du projet en passant par la mise en ligne jusqu’à la maintenance.

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April 17, 2015 — VCS, deployment, servers, building tools, CI etc.

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March 28, 2015 — A look at how Hawaii State Government has been using WordPress to launch over 450 cloud-based, open-source, mobile first websites. In the fall of 2012, we responded to an RFP by our 1st CIO Sonny Bhagowalia to build a common template for all state agencies. We had <6 months to build and implement EVERYTHING! As of January, 2013, 28 sites were launched. As of 2014, we have over 80 WordPress installs hosting almost 450 sites and all state agencies are now using WordPress. Learn how we did it and hear about our custom solutions and unique updating process that allows the State to push out bug fixes and feature requests with ease.

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March 9, 2015 — Optimizing WordPress Workflow

March 26, 2014 — This talk formulates techniques for professional WordPress deployment using Vagrant, Git and GitHub. It demonstrates techniques on how to use Git to deploy to Linux servers. Following this introduction to deployment with Git, the talk continues to more advanced topics such as setting up Vagrant for WordPress development and using Vagrant for environment simulation and deployment.

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March 3, 2014 — A “deployment” is the process of moving new code into your production environment. Whether this code is a new feature, a bug fix, or any other new modification you would like to make to your live site. Deployments can be stressful events that make the idea of executing a deployment appear to be a big red button. This makes us want to deploy code as little as possible.

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October 25, 2012