Wordmove is a nice little gem that lets you automatically mirror local Wordpress installations and DB data back and forth from your local development machine to the remote staging server. SSH and FTP connections are both supported.
Think of it like Capistrano for Wordpress, complete with push/pull capabilities.
That's easy:
gem install wordmove
Beware!
From version 1.0 we have decided to change wordmove flags' behaviour: they used to tell wordmove which options to skip, now they tell instead which options to include. In the Movefile, we have also changed all "username" fields to be just "user".
So please, be very careful when upgrading ❤️
> wordmove help
Tasks:
wordmove help [TASK] # Describe available tasks or one specific task
wordmove init # Generates a brand new Movefile
wordmove pull # Pulls WP data from remote host to the local machine
wordmove push # Pushes WP data from local machine to remote host
You can configure Wordmove creating a Movefile
. That's just a YAML file with all the local and remote host infos:
local:
vhost: "http://vhost.local"
wordpress_path: "~/dev/sites/your_site"
database:
name: "database_name"
user: "user"
password: "password"
host: "127.0.0.1"
staging:
vhost: "http://remote.com"
wordpress_path: "/var/www/your_site"
# paths: # you can customize wordpress internal paths
# wp_content: "wp-content"
# uploads: "wp-content/uploads"
# plugins: "wp-content/plugins"
# languages: "wp-content/languages"
exclude:
- ".sass-cache"
- ".git"
- "bin"
- "tmp/*"
- "wp-content/*.sql"
- "Gemfile*"
- "Movefile"
database:
name: "database_name"
user: "user"
password: "password"
host: "host"
# ssh:
# host: "host"
# user: "user"
# password: "password" # password is optional, will use public keys if available.
# port: 22 # Port is optional
# gateway: # Gateway is optional
# host: "host"
# user: "user"
# password: "password" # password is optional, will use public keys if available.
# ftp:
# user: "user"
# password: "password"
# host: "host"
# passive: true
# production: # multiple environments can be specified
# [...]
Just not use the remote.ssh.password
field on your Movefile
. Easy peasy.
Please take a look at the various gotchas of the underlying photocopier
gem.
We're glad you asked! We basically upload via FTP a PHP script that performs the various
import/export operations. This script then gets executed via HTTP. Don't worry
too much about security though: the script is deleted just after the usage,
and can only be executed by wordmove
, as each time it requires a pre-shared
one-time-password to be run.
Just add in the remote section of the Movefile a wordpress_absolute_path
field
specifying the absolute path (you may need to recover this from the __FILE__
constant),
while using wordpress_path
for the relative folder path.
Add to the YAML config a passive
flag set to true
.
- The dump script is the
MYSQL-dump
PHP package by David Grudl; - The import script used is the BigDump library;
(The MIT License)
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