As a freelancer there hasn't been too much need for me to use Git - But all that's about to change. I'm jumping into the deep end, and documentaing my journey. here we go:

Here's an excellent overview of what we will be doing. It includes links to two developers solutions:
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/git-for-wordpress-development/

The first solution detailed in the above blog post is quick linked here:
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/improve-wordpress-development-workflow-local-server/

Wordpress Desktop Server

It suggests using Wordpress Desktop server to create a local environment. I'm already used to using wamp and mamp - but in order to follow the instructions in the blog post I decided to give Desktop Server a shot.

I was successfull in creating a new local wordpress environment, although importing an existing website into Desktop Server has proved to be a pain. The frontend and backend are displaying PHP warnings, and the wordpress login isn't displaying at all.

<?php
$counter = 0;
$Accordion_heading_1 = get_field('Accordion_heading_1');
?>

<section id="accordion-1" class="accordion">
    <div class="container">
        <?php if ($Accordion_heading_1) { ?>
            <h2><?php echo $Accordion_heading_1; ?></h2>
        <?php } ?>
        <div class="accordion" id="accordionexample">

            <?php

            // check if the repeater field has rows of data
            if (have_rows('tab_1')):

                // loop through the rows of data
                while (have_rows('tab_1')) : the_row(); ?>

                    <?php
                    $counter++;
                    ?>

                    <div class="card">
                        <div class="card-header" id="heading<?php echo '-' . $counter; ?>">
                            <h2 class="mb-0">
                                <button class="btn btn-link" type="button" data-toggle="collapse"
                                        data-target="#collapse<?php echo '-' . $counter; ?>" aria-expanded="true"
                                        aria-controls="collapse<?php echo '-' . $counter; ?>">
                                    <?php the_sub_field('question'); ?>
                                </button>
                            </h2>
                        </div>

                        <div id="collapse<?php echo '-' . $counter; ?>" class="collapse"
                             aria-labelledby="heading<?php echo '-' . $counter; ?>" data-parent="#accordionexample">
                            <div class="card-body">
                                <?php the_sub_field('answer'); ?>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                    </div>

                <?php endwhile;

            else :

                // no rows found

            endif;

            ?>

        </div>
    </div>
</section>

See the Pen Dynamic bootstrap 4 carousel using wordpress advanced custom fields by shannon briggs (@shandb) on CodePen.

Uses:

• Bootstrap 4 to create the grid columns
• Flexbox to create the perfect responsibe squares that contain content
• Wordpress plugin: Advanced Custom Fields to create a repeater field. The repeater field creates a pair of squares (an image square, and a text square). The repeater field contains sub fields for the various elements of the content (background image, heading, text, link etc)

Code over here

Use the following snippet to display the URL of a custom post types taxonomy term. Just replace the word position with the name of the taxonomy.

<?php
$terms = wp_get_post_terms($post->ID, 'position');
foreach ($terms as $term) {
    echo get_term_link($term);
}
?>

To display the results of a Toolset Types checkbox field, use the following in your PHP template:

$checkbox_value = types_render_field( "my_checkbox_field", array( "separator" => ", " ) );
echo $checkbox_value;

Taking it a step further, we can create conditionals based on values collected. In the following example I have four values:

$blacktown = types_render_field( "localities", array( "option" => "0" ) );
$carlingford = types_render_field( "localities", array( "option" => "1" ) );
$emerton = types_render_field( "localities", array( "option" => "2" ) );
$penrith = types_render_field( "localities", array( "option" => "3" ) );

if ($blacktown) {
    // do something
};
if ($carlingford) {
    // do something
};
if ($emerton) {
    // do something
};
if ($penrith) {
    // do something
};

1. Open a plain text editor like notepad
2. Paste this line there: 
   Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex"
3. Save as .htaccess (yes, there is no "file name" and after the dot, the htaccess part seems to be the extension)
4. Place it into the wp-includes directory on your server.

Here's a handy conditional snippet to target specific archive or single pages from a custom post type.

Recently I needed a wordpress plugin that allowed me to import a CSV file and store the data into a SQL table. Not knowing any particular plugins I decided to to download, install and test a whole bunch of them - and the results, whilst not always providing a solution to my original problem where still very interesting.

Import CSV files

Download: https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/import-csv-files/

A very simple plugin that efficiently imports data from a CSV file and matches it against a variety of post/page related fields. I can see that this plugin would be extremely helpfull for creating pages or posts from a spreadsheet of data. I can already forsee a potential use for this plugin in an upcoming project where I need to migrate much content from static HTML website into a wordpress site.

ImportWP

Download: https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/jc-importer/

Another great content importer that matches the CSV data to a variety of wordpess fields. This plugin is very simple to use, and has a number of advanced features in the free version such as the ability to not only map the content to a wordpress post or page, but also a user, taxonomy, or custom post type. The premium version of this plugin allows automated scheduled importing.

Tablepress

Download: https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/

TablePress allows you to easily create and manage beautiful tables. You can embed the tables into posts, pages, or text widgets with a simple Shortcode. Table data can be edited in a speadsheet-like interface, so no coding is necessary. Tables can contain any type of data, even formulas that will be evaluated. An additional JavaScript library adds features like sorting, pagination, filtering, and more for site visitors. Tables can be imported and exported from/to Excel, CSV, HTML, and JSON files.

WPtables

Download: https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/wptables/

Need to insert a table into your page or post? WordPress Tables plugin will take your data in CSV/JSON format or directly from MySQL table and create an interactive data table. With WPTables plugin, you can easily create and manage your tables from the WordPress administration. Simply insert a shortcode into your page, article or post, and you are ready to go. That’s it! Enjoy your new table.

WP CSV to DB

Download: https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-csv-to-database/

WP CSV to Database plugin allows you to insert CSV file content into WordPress database. You can selectively insert data into a particular database table. You can also export any WordPress database table content to a CSV file using this plugin. Useful when you want to bulk upload data from your CSV file (example: product details) to the WordPress database in one go. Bulk data import from CSV (Microsoft Excel) file. Bulk data export from your database to CSV file