Automatic updates and merging manual changes
Automatic updates and merging manual changes
version-control
Updating WordPress core with zero downtime – I mean zero
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
Version control with a team of non-developers
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
How can I edit commit messages in my wp-hosted plugin repo?
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”
WordPress script file version numbers changing in live environment
I have not directly an answer to solve your issue as it (please take a look at the edit part I add), but this codesnippet (function) could maybe help you to solve the version issues for .js as well for .css files. /** * Remove query (output)string from .js / .css * Using filters */ … Read more
How should I be handling my theme version numbering?
It is good practise to use semantic versioning e.g. 1.0.1 MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH MAJOR version when you make incompatible changes, MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes. Don’t update the version on every code commit in git (just do it manually), rather on every group … Read more
Manage base theme with version control?
Perhaps write your custom themes as a child of the base theme, then set up a self-hosted theme update. Whenever you make changes to your base theme, push it to your update server with whichever version control you opt for (SVN, Git etc.), and it’ll become available as a “regular” update to all your sites … Read more
How to make my plugin able to be updated from admin panel?
If my guess is right that you think you add your site URL inside the plugin’s head and it will magically update everyones plugin, then I have to tell you that wont work. You have choices: Either you host your plugin on wordpress.org and updates work pretty much without you doing anything then pushing your … Read more
How to make changes on WordPress site locally on live site?
To make changes in live site with local install you need to setup a synchronization system. which synchronize static files and database files. You can use Git for version control. Here is a great article for Sync A Local and A Remote WordPress Blog using version control.
How do I implement a .diff changeset from core.trac.wordpress.org locally?
The command you need is patch which is not specific to SVN. It’s really easy to do. See this article: http://jungels.net/articles/diff-patch-ten-minutes.html