I am using Bedrock Stack and Sage Starter Theme from roots.io

Bedrock

Bedrock is a complete wordpress boilerplate. It implements the 12 factor app methology

So, why it's cool?

• Dependencies managed over composer, Wp, plugins etc.
• Make use of .env variables so no more flickering in wp-config.php
• Easy deployments with capistrano.

If you want to deploy your project simply type cap staging deploy or cap production deploy and you can even sync (pull /push) database and uploads.

Dependencies got managed with composer. If you want to install wp plugins you can simply composer require packagename which is pretty neat!

Sage

Sage is a starter sceleton theme. It also comes with a ready to go workflow, which includes:

• Sass
• ES6
• Webpack & Browsersync
• And I think they included laravels blade template engine recently
• Theme Wrapper

However I have a fork of it, with some custom addtions. The stack is pretty solid, as it's also generating a manifest.json and hashed assets so you nomrally don't have problems with clearing chache etc.

The Theme Wrapper is also awesome, because you can easily split everything into partials and DRY up your code.

All in all it's a very solid stack which helps you to create a clean codebase and easy workflow. They have also a few awesome plugins like Soil to clean up wp_head()

By far the most important thing by my opinion, is how to start the work. For me this is coffee. I start zipping it behind the computer, while reading support requests, or daily tech news.

Then I turn on terminal and run Gulp and I usually have a second terminal for other things. I use Sublime text, Google Chrome, SASS for CSS, GIT for version control. I use Local by flywheel and MAMP as a server solution.