# Introduction

This knowledge base has been created to assist you in developing a WordPress website with efficiency, security and scalability in mind.

If you read through this and think, "well yeah, no brainer", then mission accomplished.  Happy coding.  However if you've done things a little different in the past and some of this looks new, that's why it's here.  There are 100+ ways to build out a WordPress website.  This documentation elaborates on how **The Grove** builds a WordPress site.  

Our goal is to provide a clear and easy-to-comprehend process for implementing some of the more common technologies used with all of our WordPress builds.  For the time being this documentation is solely related to developing a WordPress site from scratch, using the Underscores (\_s) starter theme and the Bootstrap responsive framework.

In keeping our build process standardized and up-to-date we have decided to use the following technologies as part of our new WordPress build process:

* WordPress CMS
* Underscores "\_s" Starter Theme by Automatic
* Bootstrap
* Advanced Custom Fields Pro

We have developed a WordPress Boilerplate with the above technologies integrated into the latest version of WordPress.

If you have a local dev environment where you can quickly spin up a new WordPress instance we recommend cloning the theme into the `/wp-content/themes/` directory of your instance.  If you're working off of a remote server and need to manually configure WordPress we recommend cloning the entire WordPress directory.  Please choose an option below:

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>I need the entire WordPress Instance</strong></td><td>This includes the Underscores theme along will all of our standard plugins.</td><td></td><td><a href="getting-the-files/wordpress-instance">wordpress-instance</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>I just need the Underscores Theme</strong></td><td>I already have WordPress installed and just need the theme</td><td></td><td><a href="getting-the-files/underscores-theme">underscores-theme</a></td></tr></tbody></table>