WordPress for the Modern PHP Developer

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WordPress powers 26% of the web and the claim is concrete: use Git, Composer and environment files to treat a site like an app. Steps include move core into /WordPress and ignore it in git, manage WP core, plugins and themes with Composer and wpackagist plus composer-installers, keep only wp-content (or app) in the repo, store secrets with dotenv and env vars, back uploads to S3, and provision servers with Ansible/Trellis.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:29Configs
3. 8:42Composer
4. 11:10Composer installers
5. 14:24Composer repository
6. 17:28Managing dependencies
7. 19:14Managing uploads
8. 22:48Managing environment settings
9. 25:22Defining environment variables
10. 29:15Summary
11. 30:42Bedrock
12. 31:52Virtual Machines
13. 34:41Ansible
14. 36:04Trellis
15. 39:41Questions
16. 46:37Must Use Plugins

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