Ask HN: Wordpress Workflows, Code/DB Versioning and Deployment

Hello,

I'm investigating about Wordpress Workflows.

It seems that code and database versioning seems to be a problem among Wordpress developers, not to mention deployment between local, staging and production servers.

I will like to know if that's something you also experiment or if you have a Workflow of your own you will like to share.

My end-goal is to research as much as possible about the topic and try to implement the best methods on my own solution in the form of a SaaS platform.

Any feedback is welcome.

Thank you.

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doct15 10y ago ↗

Hi,

This doesn't answer all your questions, but there is an example automated install of WordPress with the Distelli SaaS platform. (The platform offers free accounts.)

Check out my blog here:

https://www.distelli.com/blog/deploy-wordpress-to-ubuntu

Once this is setup, you can deploy to any environment very easily. This is flexible enough that you can easily change the db name|password|user|etc. I've imagined some changes to meet your use case where you can specify these per environment.

I can answer questions if you have any.

Good Luck and I hope to hear back. -B

otto_ortega 10y ago ↗

Thank you, I will check your post.

kjell 10y ago ↗

`wp-cli` comes in handy. It can migrate a database and do a global search and replace (for the millions of URLs in that database that you need to change for the site to work after it's cloned) a lot cleaner than some of the plugins that are out there.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/2b2bdacffaa55998fd94

[1] wp-cli.org

otto_ortega 10y ago ↗

Thank you, sounds interesting. I will check it.