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Version controlling WordPress themes on simple hosts

July 17th, 2010

Here’s a quick tip if your WordPress host is quite simple and only provides FTP access and no version control tools (svn, git) or specific syncing tools (rsync)

Use version control for the theme on your local machine (where you run your dev WordPress environment), then use syncing capability of FTP tool (Cyberduck for MacOSX has this feature) to promote the changes to your host.

Remember, version control is the only way to sensibly manage changes to your theme – editing through the WordPress theme editor on your host is a really bad way to manage it!

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Git for dummies

January 31st, 2009

Only just started to finally get stuck into learning git. It certainly seems to be revolutionising the way we do version control. I’m pretty hooked on subversion and I have to admit, I thought that was as good as it gets! But the hype around git to much to ignore.

Here’s some resources I’ve found really useful to get (git) going:

Resources

  • GitCasts by Scott Chacon. Screencasts are for me one of the best ways to learn things, these casts, although very quick, give you that good leg up.
  • Git from the bottom up by John Wiegley. There is a link from his blog entry to a paper he has put together on his understanding of Git. Always good to read some theory!
  • Git – SVN crash course from the offical git site. A great place to start if like me, you’re already familiar with svn.
  • Github’s Git Cheat Sheet is a good resource too!

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