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A GOOD WORKFLOW SAVES YOUR TIMES & MONEY.
Development Process
Develop the entire website in localhost Commit changes to git and push to Bitbucket or github.
1. Starter theme
Make Your Own Starter theme based On Underscores or Twenty Seventeen (New version of Wordpress default theme) and Underscores (made by Automattic)
After Complete your starter theme save this on GitHub or Bitbucket.
Theme Option Framework
Great way to include theme customization options that non-developers can manage and understand. Many users don’t have a clue what CSS is – but they can use tabs, toggles, drop -downs and color pickers.
Create own custom framework are time consuming. So we prefer readymade Option framework Like
Customiser Framework
Provides a simple and intuitive API for registering Customizer settings, including advanced control types. Automatically sanitizes settings based on the control type.
Gutenberg Helper
Page Builder
Page builders allow you to create, edit, and customize your site layout without writing any code.
Most Popular Page builders:
2. Start Work For New Project
Cloning your starter theme (or a fork of it) into /wp-content/themes/ folder
3. Use task runner Like Grunt or gulp
For What ?
- Prefixes to use in CSS
- Compressing my images
- Linting and minifying JS files
- Creating sprites
- Constantly refreshing my browser
- Create .pot file for translation
GULP RESOURCES
- Getting started with gulp
- An Introduction to Gulp.js
- Using Gulp for WordPress Theme Development
- WordPress theme development with Gulp, Bower, and Sass
- Youtube
- WPGulp
GRUNT RESOURCES
4. Use Preprocessor Like Sass Or Less
4. Use git
Why Use Git:
- Never have to remember which files you changed
- Super easy to keep all copies in sync
Git Resource:
Desktop Tools
- For Github : Github for desktop.
- For bitbucket: Sourcetree for bitbucket
WORDPRESS-SPECIFIC GIT RESOURCES
- Version Controlling WordPress
- A WordPress & Git Workflow
- WordPress Development and Deployment With MAMP, Git and Dropbox
5. Use Trello
Theme development is managed with Trello. Trello is a task management app that gives you a visual overview of what is being worked on and who is working on it. The team sets about beta testing the theme. A list of bugs, tweaks and solutions is compiled, a hackathon is scheduled, and everything is completed by the developer.
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-use-trello-to-organize-your-entire-life-1683821040
6. Clean Up Your Source Code
- Messy source code is a developer’s nightmare. It makes finding things difficult, and it makes it extremely difficult for anyone else to work with it.
- Indent nested lines.
- Indent tabs always.
- Be consistent with formatting.
- Include concise, descriptive comments.
- Mind your line breaks.
- Strive for clean markup.
7. Keep In Mind While Developing a theme:
Add this to wp-config.php define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
Escape Everything
// Use anytime HTML element encloses a section of data:
echo esc_html( $no_html );
// Use on all URLs, including those in the 'sr####c' and 'href' attributes of an HTML element:
<img src="<?php echo esc_url( $escaped_url ); ?>" />
// Use for inline Javascript:
<a href="#" onclick="<?php echo esc_js( $escaped_js ); ?>"><?php esc_html__( 'Click Here', 'text-domain' ); ?></a>
// Use for an HTML attribute:
<div class="<?php echo esc_attr( $escaped_class ); ?>">
Prefix Everything
// Functions
function prefix_setup()
Prefix_Class {}
// Global Variables
global $prefix_passengers;
// Action Hooks
do_action( ‘prefix_start_engine’ );
// Filter Hooks
$register = apply_filters( prefix_register );
// Non Third-Pary Script Handles
wp_enqueue_script( 'prefix-functions', get_theme_directory_uri() . 'js/custom/functions.js' );
// Non Third-Pary Style Handles
wp_enqueue_style( 'prefix-minified-style', get_theme_directory_uri() . 'style.min.css' );
// Images
add_image_size( 'prefix-large', 800, 600 );
Do Not Prefix Third Party Scripts
// Incorrect
wp_enqueue_style( 'prefix-font-awesome', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/font-awesome.css', array(), '4.2.0', 'all' );
// Corrrect
wp_enqueue_style( 'font-awesome', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/font-awesome.css', array(), '4.2.0', 'all' );
// Incorrect
wp_enqueue_script( 'prefix-fitvids', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/jquery.fitvids.js', array( 'jquery' ), '1.1.1', true );
// Corrrect
wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery-fitvids', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/jquery.fitvids.js', array( 'jquery' ), '1.1.1', true );
Properly Include Plugins Using TGMPA
// Include a plugin from the WordPress Repository:
array(
'name' => esc_html__( 'WooCommerce', 'text-domain' ),
'slug' => 'woocommerce',
'required' => false,
),
// Include a plugin bundled within a WordPress theme:
array(
'name' => esc_html__( 'Example Plugin', 'text-domain' ),
'slug' => 'example-plugin',
'source' => get_template_directory() . '/inc/plugins/example-plugin.zip',
'required' => false,
),
Provide Offline Documentation
Offline documentation ensures that your customers are not hanging when there is not an Internet connection available or when your files are inaccessible – for any reason. Additionally, you do not have to ensure the assets will be infinitely accessible.
Test theme
8. Run Tests
- Run Envato Theme Check. Must meet all Theme Check requirements
- Run Theme Mentor for themeforest
Check Plugins
- Theme Sniffer Plugin - WordPress Coding Standard
- Developer Plugin
- Monster Widget Plugin.
Conclusion
If your theme complies with the following Workflow, you’ll probably have a much quicker time getting your WordPress theme approved on ThemeForest.
Credits:
Rich Tabor, Dara Skolnick