Quick Development and Deployment practices?

  • Hi there,

    We(small and young social deign company) develop about 2-3 wordpress websites per week. nothing special. most of them template based.
    Our boss wants to speed up this process and increase our output.
    So I am looking for some ideas how to streamline design, implementation, tweaking and deployment process. Our goal is to get website up and running 2-3 days.(only template and structure, no content or some custom features)

    Currently each project we install WP into some subdomain.ourwebsite.com, and after a client is happy we zip all directories and export db drop.
    This process has too many the same repetitive moves: installation of WP for each new project and exporting of it on production hosting.

    What do you think how would work Multisite WP installation? I’ve never tried it.
    And is there something a little bit less complicated as WP stack?

    Perhaps someone could share their dev process?

    I’d be happy to chat about it.

    Regards,
    Alex

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  • Thread Starter AlexReds

    (@sr-2)

    Well.. so no one wants to share their experience at all?

    It’s quite difficult to move single sites out of Multisite so I would not go there.

    I don’t think there is a one-size approach to this kind of question – it depends on MANY variables. Lots of people do it the same way you do or some have the client set up hosting first and develop it on the client’s server.

    Thread Starter AlexReds

    (@sr-2)

    Thanks WPyogi for your respond..

    Well.. since I started topic.. many things changed.. as one of them I quit that job :)) and started work again as freelancer.
    But I am still improving and streamline my own development process

    So just to keep this post useful and updated I will edit from time to time..

    Now my best and easiest way is to use ManageWP solution.
    They have site clone, import and export feature..
    I have fresh clean install snapshot.. which I clone in couple clicks for each new project.
    Once the project is finished I export it in couple clicks to any ftp…
    So far that’s best and smoothest process I found..

    But I am still believe there are some ways to streamline this process even more..
    I haven’t tried SVN (beanstalkapp) solution yet.. Looks like with SVN/Git I could just create a branch from original wordpress instance, deploy it onto stage server..
    Once I finished with site, deploy it onto production server..
    So this approach gives 2 in 1.. versioning and deployment

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