This session delves into innovative techniques for managing WordPress dependencies with Composer while incorporating advanced workflows for automation and deployment. It highlights the importance of Composer as the backbone of modern WordPress development, ensuring stability, scalability, and security through effective dependency management, repeatable builds, and version locking.
Participants will learn to handle WordPress core, plugins, and themes as Composer dependencies, integrate tools like wpackagist, and maintain an efficient codebase. The session also covers setting up CI/CD pipelines using platforms like GitHub Actions, GitLab, or Bitbucket for automated testing, building, and deployments, ensuring error-free workflows.
Additionally, it focuses on implementing unit testing with PHPUnit to enhance code reliability, managing plugins and themes with version control, and automating processes with tools like WP-CLI and Composer for seamless deployments. Guidance on structuring wp-content directories, handling sensitive data securely, and leveraging .gitignore for scalability is provided, along with pro tips to overcome challenges, optimize workflows, and boost productivity.
Designed for both small-site managers and enterprise developers, this session offers actionable strategies to modernize WordPress development by automating, optimizing, and innovating processes.