Unfortunately you had to learn the hard way 🙁 This is not about that version 4 sucks, actually, version 4 comes with great new feature, like the new advanced orderby function in WP_Query, it is more about an outdated website. Downgrading will not solve your problem in the long run, it might even create more … Read more
You need to change “Theme Name”, “Theme URI”, and “Version” in style.css file of anotherDuenaTheme so that it does not give update notifications belonging to original Duena Theme. Please refer the guidelines here
This is not specifically a GIT question so much as a development workflow question (GIT vs. SVN will produce similar WordPress workflows given the details you provided). If the changes the client wants to make don’t depend directly on specific DATA then you don’t need to sync your PROD data down to your local environment … Read more
I personally set up a development environment as a base of my WordPress Development, where I’ve dummy data and some other debugging plugins. I then create my own plugin directory and do git init in it. During plugin development, I set up the Developer plugin to Plugin for a self-hosted WordPress installation. It helps me … Read more
Since its been so long without an answer I take its already solved, but I’ll leave something here for posterity. I run a Multisite to a client at the agency I work for, and the setup is kinda complicated to keep up. They way I see it, the workflow you presented is pretty much spot … Read more
Will there be any issue while importing?(since all are on localhost) Yes and no. The content will be fine, as will the posts. Any images uploaded on the other hand will be problematic. This is because it will need to download those images from the original host, which won’t be possible when using a local … Read more
Mark Jaquith maintains a git repo of WordPress, synced with the SVN every half hour. https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress He also describes how to work with WP in git here: http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/developing-on-wordpress-using-git/
You could hook into the action add_attachment and perform an SVN commit. add_action( ‘add_attachment’, ‘svn_commit_attachments’ ); function svn_commit_attachments( $attachment_ID ) { // collect data about the attachment, for example its path, the user and so on. shell_exec ( ‘$ svn commit -m “$user added file $filename.”‘ ) }
You should familiarize yourself with a Version Control System. Most people are using Git these days, however, there are other systems such as Subversion CVS Mercurial And plenty of others. The way I typically see WordPress projects in Version Control is the following: Everything in your /wp-content/ should be in your repository Things like wp-config.php … Read more
There are open-source solutions out there to migrate database changes and WordPress configuration (WPCFM) in the way you’ve described, but I’m going to answer this by giving insight into the most common practice in a simple scenario. Updating plugins Let’s assume all 3 environments are the same except the database on production which has new … Read more