WordPress development workflow

WordPress + Bootstrap + Visual Composer

For most of the standard websites, I use the following workflow.

1. Generate a WordPress starter theme in Underscores. Upload and activate the theme.
2. Install and activate Visual Composer plugin (I’m slowly adapting the Guttenberg plugin instead).
3. Import Bootstrap to the theme folder.
   
4. Import Visual Composer fix that integrates the Visual Composer with Bootstrap https://github.com/b0gucki3/vs-bootstrap
   
5. Point WordPress to the new styles.
6. Compile and test Sass.
7. Start the theme development, normally incrementally. Use git for version control of the theme folder.
   

This workflow is very flexible and not over-engineered.