Native WordPress import/export file is focused very tightly on content. It is not meant and cannot (or at least no one bothers to try bend it that way) accurately represent the state of whole site. The missing storage you are looking for is likely Options API, which is heavily used by core and third party … Read more
How to make a copy of a local wordpress build in MAMP?
Is it possible to checkout a beta version of WordPress via github?
Revision History for Entire WordPress Site
It sounds like you need to update the database to replace the guids and base URL. I recommend WP Migrate DB Pro to quickly sync two databases. Otherwise you need to run a few SQL statements to find and replace the old domain with the new domain. In PHPMyAdmin run the following statements from the … Read more
It turns out all that is required is a .deployment file in the repository [config] DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = D:\home\site\wwwroot\path\to\theme
Could not find wp-load.php issue
You can just swap them out. Make sure you delete the old plugin files first though, in case the new version of the plugin doesn’t have that file anymore. The downside to doing it this way instead of using the gui is that if someone was to come to the site during the update there … Read more
version control for wordpress? (wordpress folder and database at same time)
You questioned: How to use wordpress with Git? Actually your question is a bit wrong, and should actually be: How to use Git with WordPress? As git is for controlling versions so using it depends upon you what actually you want to take under version controlling. I personally develop WordPress themes and plugins so I … Read more