[Online] Introduction to GitHub

In this Zoom presentation, Doug Yuen will explain the basics of GitHub (and Git, the version control system that GitHub is built around). This presentation is designed for people who have never used GitHub, or tried to learn but got confused.

GitHub is a popular service that is commonly used to track changes to code you write. In WordPress, some uses would be a custom plugin you wrote, your changes to a child theme, or even just additional CSS you're adding in the Customizer.

I'll explain some of the key concepts, demo the GitHub website and the GitHub Desktop client software, and share specific examples of how GitHub has helped me on some projects. It's much more than just a place to back up your code. I won't be going into technical stuff like the command line interface, but I'll mention some of the powerful things you can do with Git/GitHub, and I encourage you to learn more as you get comfortable with it.

GitHub has a generous free plan that's sufficient for most users. If you're writing or editing code, I think you should be using GitHub, especially for larger projects. And if you have a developer writing code for you, getting them to use GitHub could be very useful in case someone else needs to take over or collaborate.