[wp-hackers] WP Development & Production Sites

[Chris Chilcoat]

We are going to need to sync the DB, templates and new plug-ins. The dev and
production sites will need to be exact copies of one another.

Chris

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Vid Luther <vid at zippykid.com> wrote:

> plugins and their settings would need to be exported to production? i know
> some themes have the ability to export and import options, but not sure
> about plugins.
> perhaps they're creating custom post types in dev, and then they just need
> the new post type in production?
>
> I'm running into similar issues as well.
>
>
>
> William Davis wrote:
>
>> I certainly understand wanting to sync production data to the development
>> site, but it sounds like he wants to sync his dev site back to his
>> production site.
>>
>> William P. Davis
>> will.davis at gmail.com
>> 207.660.5342
>> http://twitter.com/williampd
>> http://www.wpdavis.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 19, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Matthew McGarity wrote:
>>
>>  I don't know his specific reasons, but one reason *I* have would be to
>>> setup
>>> a test environment with production data (posts, pages, categories) so I
>>> can
>>> test new functionality against valid data.  Since his question is limited
>>> to
>>> the DB (and not to files), I don't know what other use might be valid.
>>>
>>> MMc...
>>>
>>> Matthew McGarity
>>> http://mcgarity.me
>>> (972) 275-9673
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:10 AM, William Davis <will.davis at gmail.com
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>>  Just out of curiosity, what changes will you be making to the database
>>>> that
>>>> you'll need to be syncing back?
>>>>
>>>> William P. Davis
>>>> will.davis at gmail.com
>>>> 207.660.5342
>>>> http://twitter.com/williampd
>>>> http://www.wpdavis.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 19, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Iain Cambridge wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Simplest way I suspect would be to MySQL replication which is pretty
>>>>
>>>>> well documented over at mysql.com
>>>>>
>>>>> Iain
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Chris Chilcoat <cchilc01 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hello:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am planning on using WordPress 3.0 to power a small university
>>>>>> website.
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> am looking for a way to create a development environment that I can
>>>>>> sync
>>>>>> with a production site. I am trying to avoid exporting the DB from Dev
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> installing on my production box every time I need to make an update.
>>>>>> Dose
>>>>>> anyone know of any software or plug-ins that would help with my
>>>>>> problem?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Christopher C. Chilcoat
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