Have you ever wanted to learn how to use the command line to manage your WordPress website? Look no further! Join Tara King for her talk, “Command Line Basics for WordPress”. This talk will be in our Developer track and is for WordPress Developers of all levels who have yet to embrace the command line in their daily WordPress workflow.
As a site-admin-turned-developer, Tara knows exactly how intimidating the command line can be…and exactly how valuable it is when working with WordPress. In this session Tara will demystify the command line and empower YOU to take advantage of some powerful tools in the WordPress ecosystem. With a basic grasp of the command line you’ll work more quickly, do more, and understand more of the tech behind your WordPress site. She’ll cover:
- What’s a terminal?
- What’s a text editor?
- How do I navigate my file structure?
- How do I find files, remove files, all that fun stuff?
- What are file permissions?
- What’s the difference between SSH and SFTP?
- What is version control and how in the heck do you use Git?
- Why should I use wp-cli and how do I use wp-cli?
- How do I manage configuration via the command line?
This is not a workshop, but feel free to bring your laptop if you’d like to follow along. Please Note: This session focuses on *nix systems. That means Mac OSX, Linux, and other Unix-like systems. If you have a Windows machine, it is recommended that you install VirtualBox in advance of the session if you wish to follow along.