#Adding second site mamp wordpress install
#Adding second site mamp wordpress update

Less troubles and more automation! Even onboarding a new developer is easier. env text file) and deployed ( cap production deploy). You’ll end up with a self-contained WordPress project that installs an explicit version of WordPress and required plugins ( composer install) which can be easily configured. Easy one-command deploys with Capistrano.Explicit dependencies tracked by Composer.If the issues above sound like something you have dealt with in the past, you’ll like Bedrock.

#Adding second site mamp wordpress update

Or you deploy first and the site throws errors until you update the plugin. For instance, you update the plugin and it’s not backwards-compatible, so it throws errors until the deployment is finished. Most importantly, it can cause downtime or fatal errors. This is a rather manual approach and can be quite error prone.

If it’s a new plugin, make sure it’s been activated on the production site.

Update the theme on the remote server (using whatever deployment method).

#Adding second site mamp wordpress install

Install or update the plugin on the production site (make sure it’s the same version!).You write code based on that new functionality. You update a plugin locally because you need some new functionality that the updated plugin provides. Configuring WordPress is difficult, because the wp-config.php can’t be under version control.You have to manually keep track of WordPress/plugin versions.Updating WordPress/plugins from production may break your production site.For some projects, you might want to keep the entire site (even WordPress files) under git as well. Deployment can be FTP transferring of theme or git pulling the repo from the server. You can have a git repository for your theme. You can download and install WordPress both on your local machine and production server. Why should you care about Bedrock? Let’s take one step back and think about a typical way to work on a WordPress project. It’s not a theme, it’s a way to install, configure, and manage WordPress with security and modern development practices in mind.īedrock is an open source project made by Roots that you use as base for WordPress projects. The following is a guest post by Alessandro Vendruscolo, who wrote to me excited to write a guest post about a WordPress tool that I didn’t know much about: Bedrock.