Late-night deployments. A staging environment that doesn't match production. Standards that only exist in one person's head. Anyone running WordPress projects professionally knows these situations – and knows how costly they can be. Vol. 1 of the UnleashWP Learn series by Benjamin Zekavica – WordPress Core Team Member and active developer – brings together years of real-world project experience in a structured reference book for developers, freelancers, agencies and software companies. The book assumes WordPress experience and picks up where most resources leave off: at the processes that determine quality and efficiency in daily project work. What Vol. 1 covers: - Project Foundation: Structured workflows, local development environments, Bedrock vs. classic WordPress setup, Composer and dependency management - Automation: WP-CLI scaffolding, asset management, advanced Git workflows and live-to-local syncing - Release & Deployment: Staging, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, deployment strategies and monitoring - Quality & Testing: Playwright tests, performance optimization and crisis management - Scaling: MU plugins, theme and plugin release management, team organization and documentation Included: release checklist, CI/CD pipeline template, Docker setup and repository blueprint – ready to use and adapt. Who is this for? For WordPress professionals, agencies and software companies with active projects – who know what they're doing and want to do it more efficiently.