My team will be working on a Wordpress project (theme), and we're looking to build using the Foundation CSS framework. Additionally, we will be making use of Git as source control.
We've discovered the Foundationpress theme, and would like to use it as a starting point: https://github.com/olefredrik/FoundationPress
We would only want to do this once in a while, ie maybe there is a bug in the current version that gets fixed.
My question is, how can we keep up to date with changes to the Foundationpress theme selectively?
ie: Should I fork the project, and change the remote origin to our Github repository, and add a secondary remote for the Foundationpress repo, and then only pull down changes from the Foundationpress remote when needed? I'm just not really sure what the best practice is.
Maybe there's a better way to handle this entirely. Thank you!
Even if you fork the olefredrik/FoundationPress, your fork repo will not contain the update changes that olefredrik/FoundationPress made.
If you don’t need to contribute for olefredrik/FoundationPress, and you already have your own remote repo you want to work on, you can directly add remote by git remote add upstream https://github.com/olefredrik/FoundationPress.git, and check if there has update by
git fetch upstream
git log master..upstream/master
If there has output, that means olefredrik/FoundationPress has new commit(s) which is(are) not contains in your local repo. You can use git pull upstream master to pull the new changes.
If you need to contribute for olefredrik/FoundationPress or you don’t have your own remote repo, so you can fork it and check if there has update changes by the same way above.
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I'm new into Git and I'm working with Wordpress themes.
I was always using FTP client to push every small change into my remote server... I mean sometimes it was just one line of code to check the change of CSS. It was easy and nice but there will be always problem with reverting changes and since I'm learning Git, I want to change it.
I've found two ways to do it:
git-ftp
i've tried to connect my local respository with GitHub and my intention was to automatic pull changes into my remote server from GitHub (it's not working yet, i need to configure it better)
BUT, do I have to commit every single small change? Because I cant just save file and check changes with Browsersync on second monitor, I will have to commit so many times. Also which way will be better for me - maybe there are another, better ways?
I really want to improve my performance, but it looks like that's not easy or I'm doing something wrong? I know about existence things like WP-CLI, webpack, gulp but often I'm creating small websites and probably I will spend more time on configurating those things than create theme. Also I thought about working on localhost, but I really think that I'm complicating things and my job.
Really sorry if it's wrong section, but I'm new on stackoverflow - hey! I will be really thankful if you can help me, because I think that i need knowledge of someone experienced.
I'm not sur to be helpful but I'll try :
First, even for a small project, I always prefer to install a local environment for testing. It avoid risks on your remote server !
You can take a look here : https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/tutorials/installing-a-local-server/
Then, if you have an SSH access to your server, may be you can try to configure it to push directly from your local environment to your remote server. Here is a simple tutorial : https://gist.github.com/noelboss/3fe13927025b89757f8fb12e9066f2fa
It depends on what remote system or vps you are using.
It could be from GCP, AWS, DIGITAL OCEAN, or WP itself.
It looks like that you are using the wordpress hosting your website.
If so, you might use wp cli to login the server.
①As for the frequent testing and updating, it is a good idea to copy the remote project to your localhost. Run your web app using wampserver. And create a new repository in the github and connect it with your local folder.
Then you could use git to version control your codes, do pull and push, stash or whatever.
And after testing, you could upload the specific files or folder to the remote server via ftp or sftp periodically.
②Another way is to install the git bash or git software in your server side.
It depends on the OS you are using. If it is a win or linux.
$ add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
$ apt update; apt install git
and create new user, add it into the sudo group
create a repository in your server side and link it to the github remote repository.
I am not sure whether the second way would work.
I recommend you try the first method.
Hope this could help. Happy coding.
I work alongside two other developers and we seriously need a method of version control implementing within our workflow. Currently we're centralising data using a Synology NAS (which is backing itself up to Google Drive) but the bulk of our development work is done on our local machines just to speed things up.
We've been running into issues lately where we have lost track of file versions when moving between local, centralised and live copies due to our set up. We have suggested, between ourselves, using Git but none of us are experienced with it and after spending today doing some research I feel as though it is not going to actually help. It feels quite clunky and as though it slows the process down. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong?
Anyway, if anybody could suggest a better way/optimal git config they have used or had experience with I would be greatly appreciative.
Thanks in advance,
Ethan.
If you don't want to use git, then I suggest to use SVN. You can find a free SVN repository here: https://riouxsvn.com/
Hope it works!
Preparation to use git to version control your WordPress theme:
1. Remote repo. This is the place where the versions to be managed and controlled. You can create a remote repo by git init --bared. Or you can use github, bitbuckte etc to host your remote repo.
2. Local repo. make changes the develop on it. You can use below commands to work with your remote repo:
git clone /path/to/remote/repo
git add filename #after you add/modify a file
git commit -m 'message' #commit your changes in local repo
git push #push your local changes to remote repo
More details about git, you can refer git book .
I have a WordPress website up and running with many plugins installed on it and a huge database, I need to use chef-solo in order to create an environment in which can install the same website with all its plugins and and also importing its database.
I need it to be like, using chef to install the same website on a different server, exactly the same
Now here are my questions:
I know we can use chef to install WordPress but can we set it in a
way that we don't need to configure the the WordPress and everything
is already set once its running?
What to do with the plugins? can we install them using the chef or
now that should be done manually?
How about importing the database, that can be done with chef-solo
as well?
The whole website is on git, can I somehow import the whole
thing?
is there any other issue I may possibly face? if I want do that?
There is a wordpress cookbook openly available for chef.
When you mean configure, I take it you mean setup data in the database. Assuming that you've separated the database instance from the server instance, and you're attempting to scale up the number of servers then you should be able to skip data setup. You should be configuring the new server instance (node) to point to the same database via Chef.
I stumbled into this question looking for the answer to this question. From what I can tell the start may be here.
Kind of hand-wavy, but this should enable you to do some wordpress stuff via the command line with Chef, rather than the point and click it prefers.
As per #1, you should not need to import the database. If the database goes down, you'll want to focus on that as a separate but connected recipe, since then you'll want to be taking snapshots and uploading them somewhere like S3 via a cron job. I believe there are plugins that can enable this.
You'll have to be a little more clear by "import". If it's in a code base you may be able to short-cut your cookbook path by pulling down the git repo onto the host. You may want to look at git-archive.
Other issues that I'm looking at are images. We're migrating from a hosted solution to AWS, and it appears that instead of storing the images in the database, word-press pulls them into a local directory. This means that if we scale to > 1 host, we'll have issues with images. Something to think about, there's a wealth of plugins that can probably solve this.
Hope this is helpful,
Ben
How do I pull from heroku?
I have wordpress running in my heroku app and i changed some stuff via the template editor.
I'd like to have these changes also locally.
When i try to pull from heroku i get the message:
Already up-to-date.
But I don't have these changes locally
It's normal to get the Already up-to-date message, since the remote changes weren't commit and pushed.
Since you cannot commit and push from Heroku, you need work locally and then deploy. And that's how you should work at first place.
What did you change with the template editor? Probably configuration, and not code right? So if you do a pull from Heroku, you're not going to see changes? (I'm not familiar with wordpress - but I doubt the template changes result in code changes). So I guess I'm hypothesising that it's right: there are no changes.
Perhaps what you really want are database changes?
By the way, you can now clone a Heroku app with the new heroku git:clone
What does git branch -r --no-merged return? If it returns any branches, it means those branches have changes you don't have in the current branch yet. Merge them to get the changes.
Otherwise, the thing you are pulling does indeed not have any changes. That can mean that the changes you are looking for in another branch.
What you might want to do in that case is git fetch <heroku> where heroku is the name of the remote pointing to the heroku repository. That'll fetch all banches from heroku, which you then are able to merge.
I like to use a simple Git workflow for static web sites but I build Joomla and Wordpress sites a semi-regular basis too. However I am at a loss as to how to use Git with with database driven site development.
For a static site I would 'Push' to dev.websitename.com, then push to www.websitename.com once the dev site checks out. How would I mimic that process with database driven site like wordpress or joomla.
Thanks in advance for you insight!
You can definitely use Git with your website code, such as changes to your WordPress theme/plugin, exactly as you would if you are developing a static website.
However, you wouldn't use it for your database. Git provides version control for code, while WordPress and Joomla already manage content stored in the database. Plus, Git wouldn't understand a database, so it wouldn't have any advantage over a periodic backup, which you should already be doing. Take a look at running a dev copy of your site for how to download your database directly from your server.
By the way, if you use Git with WordPress/Joomla, you should add e.g. cache, logs, tmp to .gitignore. There are also lots of tutorials out there--try searching e.g. http://google.com/search?q=wordpress+git.
In addition Chris, you may want to embark on your Git workflow without the handy script approach (at least initially). The script approach and using Git hooks can sure seem sexy (well, because they are) and handy too, but initially why not go with a more manual cmd line approach, which will also help you familiarize yourself with Git.
Once you've got your repo setup (GitHub, Bitbucket, somewhere else) and you've pushed your latest to it and are ready to deploy to production or staging, just login to your host and from wherever you've initialized the git repo (site root, example: /site) just do a:
git pull origin master
This will fetch and merge your code. Good idea to test this on a dev/staging environment and if the merge goes well then do it in production.