WP CLI The easy way; use the WP CLI (also available as wp-cli.phar) to get a solid, maintainable solution for this requirement. More for this topic you will find at the command wp plugin <command> WP API If you will need a custom script is is necessary to load the WP API, via wp-load.php and … Read more
Deploying roots/bedrock to WPEngine
Have you tried going to Settings->Permalinks and hitting ‘Save’? You don’t even need to change anything, but I’m pretty sure it refresh’s WordPress’ .htaccess file.
The problem ended up being that the wp_rewrite was not flushed on the push to the Heroku server. So, what I ended up doing was creating a file in the root directory with the following code: <?php global $wp_rewrite; $wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); ?> Then I added a deploy hook for heroku via command line heroku addons:add deployhooks:http … Read more
WordPress theme change and deployment using addon domain
You can just swap them out. Make sure you delete the old plugin files first though, in case the new version of the plugin doesn’t have that file anymore. The downside to doing it this way instead of using the gui is that if someone was to come to the site during the update there … Read more
I just understood what happened: The custom widgets were using short tags (<?) to split up the HTML output, which directive (short_open_tag) is disabled by default in the production environment. Problems like this are a pain to spot and I can do nothing but laughing thinking what we tried to understand the issue.
I made a WordPress development stack using Shipit JS. Maybe that can help. Feel to use it and/or post some issues if needed. Regards. WP-Jungle / Bonzai
How to redeploy a free WordPress site to another IP?
I’d like to understand how commonly a 3rd party installed/activated plugins will make (structural) DB changes? All the time for non bug fix releases. No matter what the plugin does, there are very few features that do not require some settings. One way around this is to minimize the use of plugins. The other way … Read more