115: Bryan Jones and Guy Meyer

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This week we were joined by Bryan Jones and Guy Meyer. They are the creators of the fantastic web development app Codekit.

We talked about (roughly in order):

News’n’Links’n’Drama:

  • 10:15 WordPress mentorship initiative going on at http://wpmentor.org
  • 13:25 GiantConf blows up

Q & A:

  • 23:09 I use Grunt, but I also own a copy of CodeKit (1 & 2). I can never figure out a decent workflow: is there a plan for some Grunt integration in CodeKit?
  • 43:07 What are your thoughts on HTML pre-processing languages?
  • 49:30 What is your workflow when deploying from local to remote, and how do you handle working with another developer on a WP project, for version control especially again with the DB?
  • 56:22 Have you had any success or desire to template in Jade within WordPress?

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  • codekipple

    In regards to the listener question about using a templating language when using WordPress there is a really good option for this!

    Timber – http://jarednova.github.io/timber/ can be installed via a WordPress plugin and let’s you write in Twig – http://twig.sensiolabs.org/

    Twig is a templating language built for writing PHP and its beautiful, i can’t recommend it highly enough, makes writing the views for php really fun. A major benefit of using a templating language in a WordPress site is being able to reuse html patterns easily.

    • asecondwill

      seconded. Timber is so good. I don’t think i could cope with WP without it. “‘Cos wordpress is awesome, but the loop isn’t”

  • For the question about a plugin in Grunt that does simple HTML pre-processing , check grunt-bake ( https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-bake )