Set the constant DISALLOW_FILE_MODS to TRUE in your wp-config.php: const DISALLOW_FILE_MODS = TRUE; See the Codex for background information: Setting this constant also disables the Plugin and Theme editor (i.e. you don’t need to set DISALLOW_FILE_MODS and DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT, as on its own DISALLOW_FILE_MODS will have the same effect). It will also prevent installing or uninstalling … Read more
The reliable two–way sync is simply not something that have happened in WordPress. The typical way is in line with what you are doing — pulling a copy of production database into development environment. Note that this is commonly the one direction it goes. It’s much more problematic to try sync development back to production. … Read more
I use WP-SuperCache and since I just use (don’t hack it), then it’s deactivated when I’m on development. I only activate it on production. This might not be quite effective, because you may want to test how caching works on development. However, I found (at least for me) testing in development to be useless since … Read more
I have been working on a simple and pluggable command line interface. The basic work is done but we now need to start writing more commands (and implement it in plugins). Please feel free to fork and contribute! You can find the code on Github.
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
I have a setup I’m pretty proud of, and it works extremely well for my team. General Structure I keep the entire installation under git. All changes, be it a system update, adding/updating a plugin, adding/updating a theme, go through the same workflow. Changes can be rolled back at a moment’s notice. I have a … Read more
I use git for this and find it works really well. A few suggestions: Add your uploads directory (wp-content/uploads) directory to your .gitignore file. Run a web server and database server on your development system so you can test changes locally before pushing them to production. Keep your database connection settings consistent beween dev and … Read more
@Insanity5902: Deployment of a WordPress site from one box to another has been a PITA since day one I started working with WordPress. (Truth-be-told it was a PITA with Drupal for 2 years before I started with WordPress so the problem is certainly not exclusively with WordPress.) It bothered me that every time I needed … Read more
The reason you remove it is because define(‘RELOCATE’,true); will point every visitor of your site to the admin login. If you are still getting re-directed to the dev server then you need to re-configure your database.
got the correct parameters(JAVA_OPTS) from here. I’ve set them in setenv.bat.