Wordpress Development Workflow with Git

Question

I am looking to integrate version control into my Wordpress development workflow. I have experience with Git in rails application development, so that seemed like a good option. However, I haven't found any holistic information that pertains to my needs and is in my knowledge level.

I would like to be able to accomplish the following:

• develop site locally(I would only be touching the theme files for the most part, so I would want to look to the production environment for the rest of the files to avoid redundancy)
• have Wordpress look for theme information in my repository (most likely will be on Bitbucket, but am open to server hosting solutions)

I hope that I am describing this clear enough for someone to have insight. If not I am glad to go into more depth of my goals.

Answer 1

You can refer to " WordPress + Composer + GIT "

It uses (in addition of Git) Composer (a dependencies managing tool for PHP), and WordPress Packagist (a repositories site that automatically packages the plugins and themes available in WordPress site in the format required for working with composer)

That way, you keep a declarative approach where you declare ion a composer.json what you need: this is easier to version in a Git repo.