I fear that there does not exist an answer that is going to make you happy. There is no (easy/good) solution for this problem. In most cases, the production (staging) environment does only touch the code (FTP-files) of a WordPress website, while the live version makes changes to the database (e.g. adding content to it). … Read more
How to sync staging to production but keep plugin settings
Multiple users working on WordPress admin at the same time [closed]
Staging environment for pages only
I just set up a dev.domain.com subdomain and mirror everything there, doing a find/replace on the sql export for www > dev, and of course changing wp-config. I used to have a staging server I mirrored things on, but I’ve since learned that a change in length of the domain name will invalidate any serialized … Read more
There’s a good article at WP Tavern that suggests some good methods. There is also a plugin called WP Pusher. With regard to using the different domains, like dev, staging, production, etc. you could set up different remote repos for dev, staging, production, etc. And then you can push to them individually depending on what … Read more
First off, you need to set your global WP settings under the “WordPress” heading in config/deploy.rb: set :wp_user, “aaronthomas” # The admin username set :wp_email, “[email protected]” # The admin email address set :wp_sitename, “WP Deploy” # The site title set :wp_localurl, “localhost” # Your local environment URL These are the settings used for your inital … Read more
The reality is that what we want is this: http://www.liquibase.org/ Liquibase is an open source (Apache 2.0 Licensed), database-independent library for tracking, managing and applying database changes. It is built on a simple premise: All database changes are stored in a human readable yet trackable form and checked into source control. However our development process … Read more