Why Does Automattic use SVN for WordPress Instead of Git?

More then likely it is personal preference. Some people like the workflow introduced by SVN, and some just don’t like the distributed model of Git. Some like the way commits, branches, tags etc are handled in one revision control over another. It could also be that they where using SVN before Git was stable enough … Read more

Banner not visible after plugin publishing

The problem was : I generated images with Illustrator, I got this before saving the image : translation : “Some file names contains caracters no latin. These names won´t be incompativĂ©l with servers and Web browsers” The problem was, I copied the name from a Web page and that created a non latin caracter. When … Read more

Why does WordPress redirect when I separate wp-core and wp-content?

wp-login.php is an actual file that is directly loaded up instead of using a rewrite rule. If you look at file listing in /var/www/vhosts/www.example.com/, you’ll probably will not see the wp-login.php file. But if you check /var/www/vhosts/www.example.com/wp-core/, you’ll probably find it if I understand your configuration correctly. This means your login URL is actually: http://www.example.com/wp-core/wp-login.php … Read more

What’s the best way to go about updating WordPress plugins when using SVN and multiple environments?

It’s a bad practice to use version control for site deployments/updates. Consider using a deployment tool which uses SVN like Capistrano. Start Googling around and you’ll articles like this one. Advantages of using Capistrano Easy deployments (more error proof than vcs deployments) Easy rollbacks (maintains previous versions of your codebase) More secure (doesn’t expose a … Read more

Update a custom theme with Subversion?

Too late, not implementing all requested functionality, require some actions-in-the-middle (between commit to SVN and checking for update on WP), but: It seems to work It works for themes and plugins, placed at independent sources Own WordPress update-server, reachable from WP-Admin side WordPress Self-Hosted Plugin Update API description of principles and usage Code of project … Read more