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Git, Capistrano, SSH, and WordPress: Revisited

In my last Git, Capistrano, SSH, and WordPress tutorial, I showed you how to setup your WordPress theme to be easily deployable. Now, I’ve simplified the process even more by eliminating a large amount of duplicate code. Continue reading…

Clearing Floats With WordPress

Using a “float” in a web design is fairly common these days; it is used to float images for wrapping text, as well as being one of the easier, standard-compliant methods to achieve columns. For example, if you want to have a content column, with a sidebar column floating to the right, you would probably have something similar to this (example after the jump):

Graphic Arts Association

Site Launched: October, 2009

Possum Tales

Site Launched: June, 2009

Git, Capistrano, SSH, and WordPress

Update: This tutorial has been updated! Several bugs have been fixed, please be sure to read all of the updates (especially if you’ve referenced this tutorial before).

Also, there is now a gem to help with the deployment script. Please visit the new tutorial after reading this one for more information.

I’m not going to lie: lately I’ve been on quite the WordPress-kick. I love being able to create a design, cut it up into HTML-ready chunks, and then use a standard WordPress template to get it into production and on the web ASAP! Generally, my workflow looks like this:

Create the design
Cut it up for a web layout
Create a sample web layout and test across browsers
Cut the HTML up into a standard WordPress template
FTP the design to a WordPress install (into the wp-content/themes directory)