Tortilla deploy

This tool will help you create a development enviroment for a divi-child theme in Wordpress. I expect you have wordpress already running on your server. This tool is made to help you create a local enviroment to develop, while concatting SCSS & JS, and compiling it to single usable files.

Step 1 - Installation

First, we will need to install / download certain tools to make this whole thing work.

• MAMP
• Wordpress
• NodeJs
• Git for Windows

Install MAMP, NodeJs & Git, the order doesn't matter. Watch out with MAMP for installing ad-ons. Just choose default settings on everything. Make sure Git for Windows adds the path so you can use it in CMD.

Step 2 - Preparing Wordpress

Once MAMP is up & running, you'll need to install Wordpress on the localserver. For this you need to turn on the localhost.

Preparing the Database

Press Open Webstart page in the UI. It should look something like this: MAMP start page Press the 'phpMyAdmin' link under the MySQL header. Create a new database, I called it wordpress for the ease of it. The name doesn't matter, as long as you remember what it is.

Installing Wordpress

Move to the directory htdocs. If you installed MAMP in the default location, your path on windows should be something like C:\MAMP\htdocs. Once you've found the folder, drop the unzipped folders of Wordpress into it. Now go to the MAMP GUI and press on Start Servers. From here just follow the installation process of Wordpress. Remember the name of your database. Check if Wordpress actually works.

Step 3 - Installing the Divi theme

Go to Divi theme and download the zip. Install the theme on your server, by opening the wordpress dashboard and in the themes section uploading the zipped Divi folder. For the localhost, unzip the folder, and drag and drop it in the C:\MAMP\htdocs\wp-content\themes. The theme should be working. Try it out via wordpress.

Step 4 - Downloading the package

Move back wp-content\themes and open this folder in your CMD or powershell (e.g. in Visual Code) & run this code git clone https://github.com/khualu/tortilla_deploy.git. Wait untill it's done cloning the repository. You should see a new folder called Tortilla-deploy (or something like it) with a bunch of different files and directories in it.

Step 5 - Installing the dependencies

Move into the new directory, open your CMD and in the same directory execute npm install. This should take bit. After it's done, you can test if it works, by executing gulp watch. The terminal should show that it's working properly. The gulp deploy command doesn't work yet.

Step 6 - Making the credentials file

For this step you're gonna need to make a config.json file. This file has the FTP credentials needed to make connections and push changes to the live version of the site. In the same folder you're already working in, create a file called config.json. Copy paste the json object shown here. And change what's between the quotation marks on the right side to your credentials. Save it.

{
    "host": "host link",
    "user": "name of the user",
    "password": "your password"   
}

Step 7 - Setting the path for pushing

If you open gulpfile.js, you'll see in the deploy function that the path to push content to is set to /domains/andrespinto.nl/public_html/wp-content/themes/divi-child. This might need to be changed for your server. This is the path from the root of my server to where the theme folder is.

If everything is installed correctly, the tool should work now.

gulp watch to start developing and make changes to the scss. gulp deploy to push the changes to the live server.