I’ve also posted this question on discourse and @fullyint has answered it in detail. So I’m just posting a link for the answer and some excerpt Helping Ansible and ssh to find the necessary private key This means that you are manually specifying the private key with each ssh command, and yes, the corollary of … Read more
Generally, there are two sets of data you want to control with WordPress: Files Database So, in theory, you can do it all by hand copying your filesystem and database every day. Now, let’s go to the tools you may want to check to make this faster, I will focus on three of them so … Read more
I have a similar problem, and the issue is resolved. Follow the steps: Login to database phpmyadmin. Click on your database and find a table with the name “wp_options” and click on it. Click on Browse at the right top side. Find “upload_path” and click on pencil icon to edit field. Cut the file location … Read more
Not very well. There are issues with not only WordPress but plugins in general when moving databases on the fly, as for as I know, there is no seemless (or effortless) way to do this, it’s hacky at best, for that reason most people still use database dumps. If you just care about preserving db … Read more
Couple different things going on here, but my two cents: 1) Philosophically: if a file may be modified somehow in any of its remote deployment contexts, don’t keep it in the repo. Since W3TC keeps its settings in a flat file (and that flat file is updated every time you go into the W3TC settings … Read more
The answer is to try and avoid relaying on configuration changes via the admin interface. Don’t use plugins that you can not configure by filtering options, or better, use only those that have an official API and use the API. For example if a plugin has an option “pl_option” with which you are happy when … Read more
I fixed this by running this command: cd /var/www/html/ sudo chown -Rv www-data:www-data * Changed ownership back to www-data instead of root. This article helped me: http://johnqunknown.me/fixing-wordpress-a-mini-tutorial/
Externals, definitely. Set up your own SVN repo, then make WP as an external in the repo. I put it into a /wp directory. You can access the WP SVN as an external here: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/ I tend to use trunk. You can use a branch, if you really, really want. Branches get auto updated with … Read more
Yes, these queries still work. This is a complete how-to: http://web-kreation.com/tutorials/migrating-a-wordpress-site-ftp-phpmyadmin-and-sql-queries/
I always develop the webiste locally on my machine with the setup mydomain.dev and using svn or git to save versions of the code. The next step is to put it on a test domain like stage.mydomain.com and after that mydomain.com I use this to change the url:s in the database: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ Its a search … Read more