Tune PhpStorm for WordPress Development

As a professional developer, you spent an incredible amount of time in your editor. You want a tool that supports the way you work, makes you better and faster. You want that tool to demand very little of your valuable time. And you want it to give you a delightful experience. Meet PhpStorm. This is a serious tool for professional developers, like you. Right out-of-the-box, without plugins or complicated setups, PhpStorm is ready for your projects and you. Let’s take a little time to get familiar with this invaluable tool and tune it specifically for your local WordPress development environment and workflow.

I use PhpStorm. It’s my editor of choice for all of my PHP-powered projects. It literally saves me time, effort, and frustrations with its integrated suite of tools. Everything I need is a keystroke away.

New tools take time to setup and tune for your specific needs. They take time for you to learn the keystrokes and get proficient using it. Right?

But hold on! PhpStorm is fully configurable. That means you can setup the keystrokes, formatters, sniffers, DocBlocks, refactors, etc. to bend it to the way you like to work. That means you can be productive right away after you tune it up.

Come spend this time with me. Let’s get PhpStorm rocking for you. Set it up once. Then just use it. Bam, you will wonder how you ever built projects without it. I’m just saying…

Benefits of PhpStorm

PhpStorm is packed with productive and automated workflow features that will save you a ton of time, frustrations, and money. For example:

• With one keystroke, bam, you can reformat an entire file to the WordPress Coding Standard or whatever standard you define in your project.
• The refactoring tools automate refactoring processes.
• Define where the phpcs.xml.dist file is in your project, and bam, it will alert you to violations as you are writing and testing your code.
• Terminal is built right in.
• Debugging tools are baked into it too.
• PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, etc. autocompletions and hints help you to know what arguments you need to define.
• and so much more.

Prerequisites

Make sure you’ve already setup your local development environment and installed PhpStorm. Need help? Go do this free setup lab: Mac or Windows.

What to Do Next?

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Check out the Local Development Environment & Workflow for more hands-on labs, insights, Docx, and more.

Additional Resources

• Be Awesome in PhpStorm – Laracasts
• How We Use PhpStorm For WordPress Development – Delicious Brains