This tutorial uses Linux Mint 18.
For development and testing, you’ll often want to run WordPress on a local machine. In Linux Mint we can get up and running quickly using a few packages and settings changes.
GitHub Pages is a GitHub service that will host your static website files, if you push them to a specific git repo or branch. This is one of the easiest ways for git users to host static HTML, CSS, and JS files.
This makes a perfect pair with a static site generator. In this article I outline a method to keep your entire static site project in one git repository.