PHPStorm for WordPress Development - A Complete Guide

Why are many of the top WordPress developers using PHPStorm for WordPress development? Prior to that 3 year stint, I was doing WordPress development full time. Let me tell you, a LOT changes in 3 years, especially in the development world. So having been out of the WordPress development space for that amount of time, I had lost touch with a lot of the advancements around WordPress development tools. With half a month left on my employment contract, my new full time WordPress role was fast approaching. I needed to get my development environment setup for maximum productivity so that when I start the new gig, I would be ready for the work that was going to be thrown my way. The most obvious place to start was finding a good text editor (or so I thought at the time). So I started searching for text editors with excellent WordPress support. I was quite surprised to find that during my search, an IDE by the name of PHPStorm kept getting a mention. Stack overflow posts, forum threads, mailing lists, tweets and Quora. I’ve never been a big fan of an IDE. I’ve always felt that they’re bloated, slow and over kill for what I need. Sound familiar? In any case, I was coming back in to WordPress #wordpress #smallbusiness #entrepreneur