Setting up Version Control for WordPress plugin development

I personally set up a development environment as a base of my WordPress Development, where I’ve dummy data and some other debugging plugins. I then create my own plugin directory and do git init in it. During plugin development, I set up the Developer plugin to Plugin for a self-hosted WordPress installation. It helps me to understand my plugin’s performance with other plugins and themes.

Then I add my test data specific to that plugin, develop it, test it, finalize it – git commit.

For Git remote, I use Bitbucket and Gitlab for private plugins, and Github for public plugins.

When the plugin is ready to deploy, I then test it in other development environments similar to this, with other engines (if possible). Finally release the version git tag -a v1.0.0.

This setup helped me to use a single/duo Development environment for all types of development. And other environments for testing.

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