I’d like to understand how commonly a 3rd party installed/activated plugins will make (structural) DB changes? All the time for non bug fix releases. No matter what the plugin does, there are very few features that do not require some settings. One way around this is to minimize the use of plugins. The other way … Read more
How to Moderate Edits to User Profiles?
WordPress, and many of its plugins, store configuration data in the database. That alone could cause issues for the setup you described, but the urls of every link will also be stored fully canonicalized. So, unless you plan to test your staging setup from “http://localhost“, you will have serious issues trying to click around multiple … Read more
Quickly Maintain/edit 100+ WordPress Forms on multiple websites
I’ll update this answer periodically over time as I lean more about the platform. This link speaks directly to what I’ve mentioned above: The WordPress Database Structure Edit (pretty much answers everything else): https://cadent.com/use-git-to-develop-a-wordpress-site-with-a-team-of-coders/
Hot reload failing to update file changes
Search the Repository for the Edit Flow plugin. It does exactly what you’re looking for and then some.
Unfortunately there are no filters or actions for modifying the post status select in quick edit (WP_Posts_List_Table::inline_edit()) – you’d need to resort to JavaScript: (function($){ $( “select[name=_status]” ).each( function () { var value = $( this ).val(); if ( value === “pending” ) $( “option[value=pending]”, this ).after( “<option value=”status-1″>Status 1</option>” ); else if ( value … Read more
git is probably by far the fastest and easiest way to update anything assuming you use git for development. The alternative you hinted to in the question is to use the wordpress update API, but for this you will need to set up an update server. There is some code for that here https://github.com/YahnisElsts/wp-update-server. It … Read more
In most cases, the database server is not open to remote connections by default, meaning that you can connect to it locally (web server and database server are on the same machine). By default, MySQL is binding to the localhost or 127.0.0.1. Here is one tutorial on how to grant remote access to specific IP … Read more