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
Automatic updates and merging manual changes
There is no general solution to this problem. Your solution will be specific to your situation, and unusable for many other users, and vice versa. All with their own varying tradeoffs. For example, some hosting companies spin up new instances with the new update, that then replace the old instances, but this is not possible … Read more
You can try using Source Tree https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/, no need to learn heavily the command line git, all the non coders need to do is copy their files to your repo, then commit and push if there are no complications that will arise. The only bad side of this is if there will be merge issues … Read more
what’s the best way to go about editing commit messages? Don’t worry about it, don’t make such mistake in future “ask the administrator to create a pre-revprop-change hook”