Agency work is hard for developers. If there is an opportunity or new technology available to you that can make your life easier and make your company more money you should be investigating whether or not the new technology can work for your own agency.
Over the past 6 months we have migrated all of our self hosted WordPress sites and developed all of our new WP sites on Pantheons agency platform, Pantheon One for Agencies. By moving to Pantheon we were able to cut our development time in half on new sites and have been able to reduce labor spent on maintenance by 40%. I want to teach you all how you can use Pantheon’s free agency platform to cut your costs and raise developer moral with little to no onboarding involved.
We will be discussing some advanced workflows that revolve around a Git Flow workflow. We will discuss how to set up and maintain a custom Git upstream that you can use as a common codebase to give your projects a head start. This leads into how you will never have to update 20 separate sites again whenever there is a new WordPress update or any of your favorite plugins. We will talk about a cloud based multienvironment workflow that allows you to develop locally or on a dev server in the cloud. All of the environments are under version control and even when you aren’t using Git, all of your changes are still being recorded to version control. Finally we will discuss how Continuous Integration can bring all of this together in an automated fashion.
Never again will you deploy a new feature branch into a production environment without first testing those changes on a test server. Did I mention that’s automated. This session is geared towards agencies, but anyone who handles more than a few WordPress sites can benefit from this.
Links from Presentation:
https://pantheon.io/resources/pantheon-development-cycle
https://pantheon.io/docs/guides/create-a-wordpress-site-from-the-commandline-with-terminus-and-wp-cli
https://pantheon.io/docs/guides/ssl-with-cloudflare/
https://pantheon.io/docs/articles/wordpress/clone-a-wordpress-site-with-duplicator-plugin/
https://pantheon.io/docs/articles/wordpress/configuring-phpstorm-on-pantheon-for-wordpress/
https://pantheon.io/docs/articles/sites/code/developing-directly-with-sftp-mode/
https://pantheon.io/docs/articles/