Comments on: Automating My WordPress Workflow

By: funandlearning

funandlearning — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:49:36 +0000

Hi -

I am new to wordpress, and really liking your articles. Just would let you know, the download links in this page seems to be broken. Both HTML/CSS as well as the Starter Theme.

Thanks.

By: Simrandeep Singh

Simrandeep Singh — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:55:48 +0000

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By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:35:29 +0000

I really enjoyed the empty wp theme. I got my own copy-paste folder.
Looks something like:

www\images\
www\styles\include.css
www\styles\reset.css
www\styles\font.css
www\styles\layout.css
www\js\pngfix.js
www\index.html

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By: Armand

Armand — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:50:57 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I think it’s now time returning back to wp theme design…

By: Amir S.

Amir S. — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:11:59 +0000

may i suggest that:
1) try to use a source control (git or svn or cvs or something)
2) use WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL while on dev (i.e. define these variables only if strpos($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"],”localhost”) !== false)

see:
- http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=70
- http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5093

to deploy:
- create a batch script or bash script (depending on your OS) that does a svn deployment (i.e. svn up)
- use mysqldump to deploy blog postings

By: Fausto Pacheco

Fausto Pacheco — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:50:00 +0000

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By: зизи

зизи — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:20:47 +0000

Сперто с лица Земли.

By: JamieO

JamieO — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:47:42 +0000

Building on the concept of a dev environment and fake data – what about a solution for staging / production environments and managing migrations between them? There are 3 scenarios which must be factored:

1) Pure data – Create a new post / page which updates the database.
2) Pure file – Theme file change – no database update.
3) Mixed data / files – Upload a new plugin, activate it, then add the function calls from your theme.

How can you promote these changes without having to re-do the set of actions you did in your dev (or staging) environment in production?

Using staging for all your content changes and then a complete database extract, modify, import while in some form of ‘outage mode’ only works if you don’t have any production data (users) that don’t exist in both.