development-strategy

Migrate php folder to WordPress

I assume that each php file contains the content of a page. It depends a lot on how your content is written in that php page, you should make another php script, go trough all files in that directory. <?php if ($handle = opendir(‘/path/to/files’)) { echo “Directory handle: $handle\n”; echo “Entries:\n”; /* This is the … Read more

Same DB for live and dev versions

It would be bad practice to have two sites running off the same database. This is especially true if you were to perform plugin / core updates on one or the other. You would be much better off using something like migrate-db (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/) to perform a migration. The maintainers of migrate db are also working … Read more

I want to share local developement and staging DB — Is this very smart or very stupid?

WordPress, and many of its plugins, store configuration data in the database. That alone could cause issues for the setup you described, but the urls of every link will also be stored fully canonicalized. So, unless you plan to test your staging setup from “http://localhost“, you will have serious issues trying to click around multiple … Read more

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