WordPress Workflows

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What is a Workflow?

Theme Dev

Dev

Live

Local

Remote

Plugin Dev

Staging

• Collaboration

• Tracked changes

• Code recovery

• Distribution

• Consistency

Stack

• OS agnostic

• Automated provisioning

• Consistent

• Instantiable

• VagrantPress

Codebase

Version Control

Provisioning VC

• wp-config.php

• upgrade

Optional:

• blogs.dir

• uploads

• htaccess/web.config

Provisioning VC

WordPress Skeleton – Mark Jaquith

• Github

• Bitbucket

• Beanstalk

• Direct remotes

Shared hosts

Staging

Live

Bitbucket

Environments

Code host

Dev

Database

1. Shared Database

2. WordPress post import/export

3. WP Migrate DB Pro

Staging

Live

Dev DB

Dev

Live DB

Shared Database

• Keeps everything consitent

• Depends on common URLs

• Users can overwrite one another

Shared Database

Remote

Local

Export

Import / Export

WP-CLI WP-CLI

• Simple post-based sites

• Transfers media

• Doesn’t migrate options and widgets Widget Settings Importer/Exporter

Define settings as config constants

Import / Export

WP Migrate DB Pro

Remote

Local

HTTP

• Full HTTP(S) DB transfer

• Replaces site URLs and filepaths

• Requires same table prefix

• Media library add-on

WP Migrate DB Pro

MISSING

MERGES

• Consistent local and remote

environments

• Version control

• Database migrations

• Start well

Summary

• Code Deployment (Capistrano)

• Provisioning (Puppet + Chef)

Final thoughts

Questions?

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