UnleashWP Learn | Vol. 1

Late-night deployments. A staging environment that doesn't match production. Standards that only exist in one person's head. Anyone running WordPress projects professionally knows these situations – and knows how costly they can be.

Vol. 1 of the UnleashWP Learn series by Benjamin Zekavica – WordPress Core Team Member and active developer – brings together years of real-world project experience in a structured reference book for developers, freelancers, agencies and software companies.

The book assumes WordPress experience and picks up where most resources leave off: at the processes that determine quality and efficiency in daily project work.

What Vol. 1 covers:

• Project Foundation: Structured workflows, local development environments, Bedrock vs. classic WordPress setup, Composer and dependency management
• Automation: WP-CLI scaffolding, asset management, advanced Git workflows and live-to-local syncing
• Release & Deployment: Staging, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, deployment strategies and monitoring
• Quality & Testing: Playwright tests, performance optimization and crisis management
• Scaling: MU plugins, theme and plugin release management, team organization and documentation

Included: release checklist, CI/CD pipeline template, Docker setup and repository blueprint – ready to use and adapt.

Who is this for? For WordPress professionals, agencies and software companies with active projects – who know what they're doing and want to do it more efficiently.