Introduction
WordPress Build Procedures
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:
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