Monday, October 03, 2016

Wordpress to survive the most difficult hurdle

A legend in the making. Wordpress, as popular as it is among content writers, it is also one of the most cubersome platforms to deploy on. And when it comes to merging more than one wordpress sites, the biggest hurdle is the Database. Well, VersionPress is coming to the rescue.

What VersionPress (VP) attempts to do is make the whole Wordpress installation version controllable. Now, it's one thing when you are merging files but it's completely different monster when you want to take on the Database. Sure, merging 2 DB dumps cannot be an issue for git but what about context?

Imagine this scenario where you have developers making your site look and work awesome and content writers writing away on live production server. Now the day comes when you have to pull the changes from the development version to the production. Well several things get intertwined here
  • Posts having same IDs
  • Plugins having custom tables
  • Options and Meta
Now that's a real spaghetti you got there. When you think about it, you feel like nothing short of a magic is going to be needed for that right? Well, if that's so, VersionPress is magic. Here's how they are supporting plugins in their new alpha. If you are late to the show, you might want to read their past release notes too.
https://github.com/versionpress/versionpress/blob/1036-plugin-support/docs/Plugin-Support.md

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