Comments on: Tracking WordPress using Git

By: Ian McKellar

Ian McKellar — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:30:06 +0000

@Jerry,

I’m not sure what the best approach to that would be – perhaps maintaining a wp-content directory template (with the right plugins & themes in there) would be your best bet.

With WordPress’s new upgrade system I’ve given up on maintaining the source in git.

By: Jerry Lee

Jerry Lee — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:13:11 +0000

I am wondering if you would know how to create a custom WordPress installation ( with custom plugins/themes/directories ), and store it on GIT, so I can grab it from command line, and not have to install all the plugins/theme and make all the settings every time?

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By: narm

narm — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:28:22 +0000

Good article. One question. How do you track the wordpress database changes? If you use a bunch of plugins that modify the database and then move to a new version of WP that also modified the DB (let’s say significantly) then what problems you will encounter. One idea I thought was to take a mysqldump with every commit, but manual merging of mysqldump(s) is not trivial either during a rebase or merge.

By: Mike Post

Mike Post — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:34:09 +0000

Great article, it answered several questions I’ve had for a while. Please continue posting these. Regards, Mike

By: Ian McKellar

Ian McKellar — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:23:52 +0000

@TrinitronX, git’s a little confusing till you get used to it.

I like github, but there are some good alternatives. If you want to keep stuff private you can get a premium github account for that, or you can just use any unix account. If you have ssh access you can use that as a git repository. If you want a web gui there are couple you can run on top of a self-hosted git repo too.

By: TrinitronX

TrinitronX — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:47:45 +0000

This is exactly what I’ve been thinking of doing for my site! I had no idea where to start though, and still need to learn how to use git. It’ll probably be easier since I’ll be starting from scratch. Would you recommend github as a repository source? I’m not sure if I want to open source everything that will go on my site for security reasons. Are there any alternative free git providers that allow private repos?