Situation: I have a Git repository with files already in the index. I make changes to several files, open Git and add these files to my staging area with “git add .” Question: How do I remove one of those files from the staging area but not remove it from the index or undo the … Read more
Question has been asked before about how to synchronize files as well as the database between two WordPress installations. For the database level, the answer is usually to basically dump one database and insert it onto another server. The problem with this is that you end up losing any changes that have potentially been made … Read more
I have a problem with WordPress database synchronization between development and production and I am wondering how other people solving it. I am aware about this question but it doesn’t really cover the nastier and more realistic use case. Say I have a live WordPress website. I took a dump of everything, replicating it on … Read more
So I need to be able to have dev/stage/production iterations (over separate servers) for a WordPress website, I use git usually but this obviously isn’t going to work with WordPress sites because of the reliance on the database for the main configuration of… well, almost everything. So my question is how do you guys do … Read more
I do development on one box and use a second for production. Right now I just dump the database and then do a find a replace for the URL changes; then copy over the files and import the new SQL. Are there better ways of doing this? @Insanity5902: Deployment of a WordPress site from one … Read more
Generally speaking other “answers” here are correct, there are alternatives to WordPress that have better built-in support for staging environments and build migrations. However the suggested alternatives aren’t exactly equal substitutes to the WordPress platform, so I think it’s best to answer the question at hand instead. WordPress does not natively support hosting the same … Read more
