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Version controlling WordPress themes on simple hosts

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 [...]

Installing MySQL, Apache2, PHP, and WordPress with MacPorts

I’ve recently started working on a website project using WordPress.  I’ve got a production environment where I run this blog on my ubuntu server (VPS) hosted by slicehost.  But because I’m going to muck around with themes and plugins I decided that I’m better off doing that locally on my Mac.  So this is the [...]