[wp-hackers] Two new, long-overdue plugins to make your wordpress life a little easier...

[Kevin Miller]

Hi Guys-

What is your process for moving sites from stage to production?   I do it
all the time and it takes me about 5 min or less regardless of the urls.
If anything, the only thing that takes more time is moving over any user
uploaded files but thats still pretty easy with tools like git or rsync.

By the way, interesting points in this thread :)

Thanks,

Kevin


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Dan Smart <dan at dansmart.co.uk> wrote:

> +1
>
> (thanks for writing that, especially regarding staging/test sites. I can't
> imagine I could trust any of my clients to touch a hosts file, even if it's
> easy for techies to do.)
>
> Seriously - most of my clients can't understand why I have to do a load of
> work to move from staging to production, when their experience of other CMS
> systems leads them to think it should be a 5 min job, and to be fair, most
> of the reasons for full URLs are from a single perspective. I love
> WordPress, but this is one of those things that I regularly have to battle
> against, rather than it just working for me and my clients' sites.
>
> Dan
>
> On 28 Oct 2011, at 19:32, Robert Lusby <nanogwp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 28/10/2011 17:44, Otto wrote:
> >> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Marcus Pope<Marcus.Pope at springbox.com>
>  wrote:
> >>> Blown away by the dozens of posts from Core WP developers that root
> relative urls are not possible
> >> A fully qualified URL works every time, everywhere. It's easily parsed
> >> by search engines. It works in feed readers. It works no matter where
> >> your content is displayed.
> >>
> >> You most certainly *can* use relative URLs. You just *shouldn't*.
> >>
> >> -Otto
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> > I disagree on a number of points - once again.
> >
> > While writing this I've just seen "because you might write a book" listed
> as a reason for not changing. Seriously?
> >
> > Relative URL's change. Sites change domain. Your entire DB is then out of
> date.
> >
> > Also - access on different platforms can often end up using different
> URL's - if I want my content avaiable in my native iOS application, I have
> to "strip out" the URLs, and replace them with ones that keep the user
> within my native application (rather than the web browser).
> >
> > Although I feel "because you might write a book", is the poorest reason
> ever, what if I want my book readers to have access to a local version of
> the website (.co.uk VS .com) etc ...?
> >
> > As stressed many times before - relative URL's *don't* break things for
> anyone.
> >
> > If need-be: I'd love for this feature to go to a vote - and be decided
> that way.
> >
> > I beg of the core team to re-think this - the DB overhead that's added on
> our enterprise sites.....
> >
> > Otto - how do you show clients your test site? I'm sorry but you can't
> call that staging method wrong. Working with a big blue-chip, approval often
> has to be acheived from a number of different teams/companies, before part
> of a website can go live - WITHOUT STOPPING THEIR ACCESS to the current live
> site. Do you want me to go round and change the DNS/Host files for *all* of
> these users in often 4/5 different companies? If so - then please also
> explain how do they access the current live site?
> >
> > DB changes are the only way - yes it can be automated. But why should it
> be. Just because you might write a book?
> >
> > Rob
> >
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