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Sounds like you are trying to find a way to “build” your public assets – this is commonly achieved using Task Runners – Grunt or Gulp are two well-known examples. Grunt is part of Node.JS, so you would need to download and install the node.js app and then find the packages you want to use … Read more

Updates for a private theme

How can I (semi) automate a database export and import to a different location?

Well, I think you’ve already alluded to the answer. You need to script your database changes. And then run that script on the live database using phpMyAdmin or something like this command if you have terminal access: mysql db_name < scripted_changes.sql If, however, you’ve referring to CONTENT changes then that’s a different thing all together. … Read more

Update a custom theme with Subversion?

Too late, not implementing all requested functionality, require some actions-in-the-middle (between commit to SVN and checking for update on WP), but: It seems to work It works for themes and plugins, placed at independent sources Own WordPress update-server, reachable from WP-Admin side WordPress Self-Hosted Plugin Update API description of principles and usage Code of project … Read more

loss of theme options while site deployment in production

this has something to do with data serialization and the fact that i have search and replace on my entire database to change the URLs, see the “When Your Domain Name or URLs Change” section of http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

Moving from development while pulling production database without overwriting, to production

If the only changes you have made on your development site are theme and plugin related, those are all file system changes. Pulling in the DB from the current production site would not overwrite your files. Make a fresh backup first but unless you’ve modified the DB there is nothing to worry about.

best practice on pushing staging development (database/uploads) to the live server

You can use WordMove. I have been using WordMove for deployment from last 3 months and it helps easily sync your local and live instance. And its very easy to use as well. Wordmove is a gem that lets you automatically mirror local WordPress installations and DB data back and forth from your local development … Read more

Add a predefined page to site

The best option for you likely is to create a page template. This will allow you to put your code in a php file (the template) and add footer and header information to that page. You then assign this file to a page within wordpress. That ties your new code into wordpress. You still have … Read more

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Preload Cache for thousands of posts may be on non-production environment

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