WordPress

One of my customers has a WooCommerce webshop with a high revenue. They also have quite a few plugins, and manually updating takes quite a lot of time. Let's see how we can change that.

A client of mine runs on WordPress. But this has a lot of privacy-sensitive data in their backups. I don't want this data in my local system. Let's see how we can solve this.

It took me a while before i finally found the right combination, but i now have a full working setup where is manage my WordPress dependencies using Composer. Before this i used to have a local copy of my WordPress site where i run all updates, and then committed all code that was changed so i could get deployed. I knew this was dirty, but i've tried on multiple occasions to find a better solution but my Google fu failed me.

This always bites me when setting up a Wordpress site on Laravel Forge: You get a redirect loop. This article is therefor mostly written for myself.

Deploying an application can be hard. The new code must be pulled in, permissions must be set, migrations must be run, etc. In some cases the whole website goes down while deploying a new version. And the more that must be done manual, the more can, and eventually, will go wrong.