Around After Dark

A WordPress site for travel and food after the sun sets.

Setup Local Environment

1. Install PHP 7.4, Composer, and MySQL to your system first.

2. Run the background service of MySQL.

brew services start mysql

3. Run the MySQL prompt.

mysql -u root

4. Create the database for WordPress.

CREATE DATABASE aroundafterdark;

5. Check if your database was successfully created.

SHOW DATABASES;

6. Go to the theme folder wp-content/themes/after-dark and install the theme dependencies. You can view the list of dependencies in package.json located in the theme's folder.

npm install

7. Run Sass to automate compiling of the theme's style.

npm run sass

8. Run Parcel to automate rebuilding of the theme's JavaScript files.

npm run watch

9. Run the PHP server.

php -S localhost:8000

10. Install PHP_CodeSniffer using Composer.

composer global require "squizlabs/php_codesniffer=*"

11. Install the PHP_CodeSniffer Composer Installer along with the WordPress Coding Standard.

composer global require wp-coding-standards/wpcs dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer

12. Check if the WordPress Coding Standard was added to PHP_CodeSniffer. ``.

phpcs -i

13. Setup WordPress database by going to localhost:8000 on your browser. Follow the instructions carefully.

14. You can check your codes if they follow WordPress Coding Conventions.

phpcs --standard=WordPress path/to/file

15. Don't forget to compress the JavaScript files before you push any changes to the remote repository.

npm run build

License

This page is published under GNU General Public License