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<div>My skills may not be on-pr with what you are asking, but I have generally behaved conservatively about making certain updates (themes, plugins, core…) until I have tested them out in one form or another. I had some major problems with the NextGen Gallery
major 2.0 update and had to revert back to 1.9, for example.</div>
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<div>So if your plan involves tying into updates in a way that manages these tasks automatically, then you may run into trouble.</div>
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<div>I apologize if I am misstating what I think your proposed configuration is intended to do, but just in case it does involved automating update processes, this is a word from the trenches.</div>
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<div>Thx – Steve </div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><Thorp>, Timothy <<a href="mailto:timothy_thorp@brown.edu">timothy_thorp@brown.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>"Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education." <<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, September 25, 2013 8:50 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[wp-edu] Managing the WordPress System<br>
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<div>Hi. I am a bit new to this list but am writing to discuss methods of maintaining the system including its themes and plugins. </div>
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<div>We currently have everything (core, plugins, themes and local solutions) installed in one subversion repository of our own. However, upon discovering that Wordpress maintains its code in subversion, I have been considering rebuilding our system using the
WP Subversion repos and using svn:externals to manage plugins and themes. reference: <a href="http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/04/svnexternal-wordpress-plugins/" target="_blank">http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/04/svnexternal-wordpress-plugins/</a><br>
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The one problem I have seen in this model is that (so far) when I switch WP versions, the WP svn externals file in wp-contents/plugins (which references Akismet) conflicts with my externals file and it is difficult to manage that conflict. It generally seems
like a great way to go but it is a lot of work to rebuild the whole system in this way.
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Along the lines of ongoing maintenance, there is the question of whether to use JetPack or not and I also just discovered a neat wordpress command-line interface app at <a href="http://wp-cli.org/" target="_blank">http://wp-cli.org/</a> and wonder if anyone
out there has been using it.<br>
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<div>Tim Thorp | Web Developer<br>
Direct: 401.863.2798 | Fax: 401.863.7908<br>
Brown University Office of Continuing Education / CIS Web Services<br>
<a href="http://www.brown.edu/ce" target="_blank">www.brown.edu/ce</a><br>
<a href="http://www.brown.edu/cis/webservices/" target="_blank">www.brown.edu/cis/webservices/</a><br>
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