Clone plugins (and settings) to new installation?
Usually blog settings, sidebars and plugins option are located in wp_options table. If you copy whole table except option_name IN ( ‘siteurl’, ‘home’ ), You get whole “old” configuration.
deployment
Workflow for working with git and WordPress
The problem with the linked article in your question is that it is suggesting to download WordPress and then create your own git repo – but then this cannot be easily updated. Instead you can have WordPress itself in git. Rather than the default subversion, there is an offical Github repository of WordPress, and in … Read more
WordPress and Git Workflow
I’m one of the developers of WP Migrate DB Pro, and would like to answer @Ennui’s question: “Do you know if the db url replace script it runs takes into account serialized strings?” Yes, it does handle serialized data. In fact, that is the primary reason I developed the free version of the plugin back … Read more
Publishing Markdown posts from bitbucket to WordPress
It is possible although it would take quite a bit of initial setup. I recommend learning about Bitbucket’s webhooks. This is how you would have Bitbucket essentially talk to your WordPress install. You would create a plugin or a theme template that has a physical url to it that you point the webhook to. When … Read more
Trigger Plugin database update after git pull
Trigger Plugin database update after git pull
Deploy WordPress From Local Docker to Hosting Provider
Deploy WordPress From Local Docker to Hosting Provider
Multi-Environment Set up
I’m also using a Deployment process including 3 environments. This is an issue we can’t really address automatically unless you check the difference between 2 sql dumps I guess. The way to go would be to create a bit of PHP to populate your settings on deployment (or on plugin activation). It’ll obviously involve to … Read more
Installation with sql server express edition
We ported WP to SQL Server almost three years and have been maintaining it ever since. Provided you are planning to use SQL Express 2012 or higher, this should be the solution you are looking for: Project Nami Simply put, replacing WPDB isn’t enough. So we went a step further and rewrote any MySQL-specific syntax … Read more
Setting up WordPress playground and deploying to production server?
See Codex for running a development copy of wordpress. You can make all the changes you want on the blog without affecting the production site by testing out new themes/etc which is what it seems like you’re looking to do. http://codex.wordpress.org/Running_a_Development_Copy_of_WordPress#WordPress_2.7_-_3.0
Database sync between local and production
If you have databases reachable from the outside ie: mysql1.example.com you can work on a local development environment connected to that the whole time. I just found a nice thing to put in wp-config.php to be able to change the host depending on your environment $host = $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]; define( ‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://’ . $host ); define( … Read more