I recently spent some time developing a WordPress theme for this blog. On the one hand, I needed a local environment for development and testing, in order to avoid frequent remote server updates. On the other hand, as understanding and wading through all the WordPress php template files can be overwhelming—especially the first time—, navigating and accessing the framework code was an issue, as well.
Luckily, there are tools out there that, once together, make the development less tedious and much more productive.

Here are the pieces I pulled together as my “WordPress theme development” environment:

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