A couple of good reasons to create a WordPress child theme for your WordPress site are if you update the theme, all customizations like CSS and custom functions will likely be lost because these files will be overwritten. The other reason is that development is usually faster because you don’t have to search through a …
I am an independent developer and creating a simple WordPress development workflow has been a challenging topic for me. What I needed was a way to develop a new site locally and easily move it to a the production server when it was ready to publish. I also needed a way to test the site …
When I start working on a new site for a client, I like to setup a local subdomain based on the client’s domain like dev.yourdomain.com. Make sure you add this domain to the Settings > General page in WordPress. To do this, you will need to edit the hosts file. Here are some basic directions: …