[wp-edu] Managing the WordPress System

[Ken Newquist]

On Sep 25, 2013, at 8:50 AM, Thorp, Timothy wrote:

> Hi. I am a bit new to this list but am writing to discuss methods of maintaining the system including its themes and plugins. 

We're a git shop, so we import the SVN repos into git and then go from there. In git we use a main repo for the wordpress code, plus submodules for individual plugins and themes. It required some work to get the import set up, but we found it works very well for our purposes (especially since all of our custom code and themes is managed in git as well). It'd be happy to put you in touch with our git guru if you'd like to know more.

> 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 http://wp-cli.org/ and wonder if anyone out there has been using it.

We found the CLI to be very limited, but then again, we were hoping for something along the lines of Drupal's drush.


Ken Newquist
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