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WordPress Modern WordPress Workflow The Production Server Real-World Scenarios

Sean Clarke
Sean Clarke
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Posted by Sean Clarke
Sean Clarke
10,256 Points

I'm curious, what about using Composer to manage themes, plugins, and even WP updates?

I got into using it along with git and more recently gulp ssh (for running the update commands on staging/live).

Some advantages & the workflow

  • Project repo is tiny and super fast to deploy as it contains only composer.json (a description of the repos and versions you want to include, and no actual files).
  • Manage custom and premium plugins using git/bitbucket, inc branches/versions
  • Keeps everything fairly modular and independent
  • Workflow: Edit your themes/plugins locally, push changes to appropriate repos/branches, then run composer updates on remote servers which 'detects' repo updates (according to versions set in composer.json)

Takes a little setting up and 'getting the concept clear in mind' but could be a useful augmentation and addition to what you've shared in the course here Jesse - which is great by the way, lots of useful gems to work right into my ever evolving workflow : )))

Many thanks!