Registering a new user – database Adding a post or comment – database Changing to a new theme – database(yes) Changing a theme’s settings – database Installing or removing a plugin – file system,database Activating, or deactivating a plugin – file system,database Updating a plugin – file system and database (DB structure may change if … Read more
If you just merge the local DB into the production DB it actually means that your local install is a production as well. The problem is not with the ability to perform merge, the problem is that you don’t have a separation between production staging and dev servers. DB on dev installs are likely to … Read more
How can I invoke an action after a CiviCRM triggering event?
For any project i work i have the following workflow, first what i have setup: Dev environment, local for your own changes, in a server for testing, code review, if you are only one person you can just do it in the server, there is also multisite. Production, or live environment. The project is versioned … Read more
The answer is to try and avoid relaying on configuration changes via the admin interface. Don’t use plugins that you can not configure by filtering options, or better, use only those that have an official API and use the API. For example if a plugin has an option “pl_option” with which you are happy when … Read more
(I realize this question is five years old, and that the OP probably found a solution already.) I work on a team that manages a large WordPress website. We have tens of thousands of custom posts, with data being entered/edited dozens if not hundreds of times a day. We actually break things down a little … Read more
I recommend you install the Editflow plugin, it lets you add arbitrary post statuses so that you can customise your workflow as you wish http://editflow.org/
If you are comfortable with a source control system such as git – one approach I have used successfully is to create a ‘lowest common denominator’ theme with all the standard functionality shared between the sites and nondescript styling (black and white, standard reset and typography styles etc). Then to do a new site, branch … Read more
First of all, you need to recognize that there are two workflows here: yours and your client. Your Workflow Receive PSD Code HTML/CSS Code WordPress template Deploy theme to live WordPress site Their Workflow Devise required changes and email you Write posts Upload photos The Issue Implementing version control here has absolutely nothing to do … Read more
General Questions answered Nr.1. Would like to have my git environment on my own server internally, not using Github to handle repos. The first thing I’d do is to check out composer and how it works with WordPress, which is a project by Andrey “@Rarst” Savchenko. Nr.2. Automatic creation of subdomains upon git branch creation … Read more