Snaky Love

An image you would like to upload to your server might not be an image – there are many ways that this plugin might pull in malicious stuff- from what I see there is no intense checking on what really is uploaded, so with some tweaking bad code might be smuggled on your server via this plug. Good suggestion to take a deeper look inside – but even better would be to know your sources – if you are using this plug to steal random images from the web it might be a kind of “Thank You” by other webmasters to not only send you good images… so only use it for sources you are absolutely sure you are allowed to republish on your site, that is the best method to avoid security problems.

Hi, I do not understand your scenario – you do NOT want the database connection strings to be changed to local databases? If this is right, then maybe this could be more easily achieved via local dns server or hosts files – another nice trick could be tunneling the remote database port via ssh to local developer machines, so “localhost” as a DB_HOST is always valid and never haas to be changed at all.

Would be interesting to read more about your development environment!

Did you implement a sane staging / deployment process with migrations and rollback?

fhsm, could you please describe your dev cycle in detail, that would be very interesting, thanks!

Anybody tried one or both of these plugins:
Dev and Staging Environment Plugin

WP-Deploy

Would like to read about your experiences, as I am trying to build a sane wordpress dev and deployment environment… for me that means I want git as a backend, rsync or git push / pull mechanism for file sync across servers and database migrations – yes, I would like to UNDO any deployment step or change to different versions / tags easily.

I added some TAGS to this thread so more people can find it – you should always use tags here!

Have a nice day!

Ipstenu, I think this is not a valid argument – of course a webapp can be expected to be able to export / import itself from one webserver to another with all plugins + themes + settings and uploaded files, in one word everything – nobody would accept a desktop application that can not save files or settings, would look totally awkward – only webapps still are in a mostly very primitive state regarding basic backup / import / export features that every user is able to use (not only your personal linux admin).

Short-sightedness or better said short-mindedness seems to be a typical predicate of the modern web-app-developer. Would be great to have people learn to program real applications before they start building webapps, just to get the basics right.

For the OP: I found DUPLICATOR to be a really helpful tool – however it is a one-time-copy-the-whole-wp-instance way of moving one site to another server, but it worked well.

I am constantly evaluating automatic-update and deployment options in wordpress-world and it is a very frustrating experience, especially if you take a look into the elegant rails- or django-based deployment options it feels like stone age, very annoying. Aptitude like updates? No. Database migrations? No. Well-thought staging mechanism with git backend? Man, what are you dreaming…? Of course NO!

Seems like millions of admins are wasting days of work building their own custom solution over and over again – what a waste of time! All these guys could be working on a new global financial system or on a way to get rid of corrupt governments instead!

Ironically there is no AUTOMATTIC in WordPress Deployment World.