You’re a WordPress professional. It’s time that your WordPress coding and deployment practices moved beyond manual backups and editing files on the server. Mistakes happen. You need a workflow that is ordered towards minimizing and recovering from mistakes, rather than one that embarasses you and makes changes stressful. This talk will examine the pitfalls of “winging it” when it comes to changing and deploying code, and will showcase multiple paths to the promised land of confident commits and delightful deploys.

1. Confident
Commits
Delightful
Deploys
Mark Jaquith
“JAKE-with”
@markjaquith
mark@jaquith.me
markjaquith.com
Friday, July 26, 13

2. Confident
Commits
Delightful
Deploys
Mark Jaquith
“JAKE-with”
@markjaquith
mark@jaquith.me
markjaquith.com
Friday, July 26, 13

3. Confident
Commits
Delightful
Deploys
Mark Jaquith
“JAKE-with”
@markjaquith
mark@jaquith.me
markjaquith.com
Awesome Alliterations
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4. Hobbyist
Professional
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5. How it can all
go wrong
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6. WSOD
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7. Fat-fingered
MySQL
Commands
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8. Untraceable
Bugs
?
?
? ? ? ?
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9. Meddling
Clients
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10. Dependency
Gotchas
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11. Deployment
Regrets
“Undo. UNDO!”
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12. Deploy-Related
Errors
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13. “I have no idea
how I set up
this server”
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14. “Gotta change
nginx.conf.
Better do it at
4am.”
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15. CDN Issues
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19. WAT.
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20. The Dreaded
— DNS —
Changeover
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21. Sound
familiar?
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22. How it can all
go right
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23. Version
Control
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24. git bisect
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25. git bisect start
git checkout bad-point
git bisect bad
git checkout good-point
git bisect good
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26. Test, then:
git bisect bad
— or —
git bisect good
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27. Code
Deployment
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28. Beanstalkapp.co
Deployhq.com
&
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29. Beanstalkapp.com
Deployhq.com
&
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30. WP Stack
&
Capistrano-WP
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31. DIY Auto
Deploy
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32. Just a Git
Checkout?
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33. Server
Configuration
Management
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34. Puppet
&
Chef
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35. Local
Development
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36. Vagrantup.com
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37. Vagrantup.com
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38. VVV
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39. Packer.io
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40. Packer.io
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41. Content
Deployment
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42. RAMP
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43. option_name
&
pre_option_name
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44. add_filter(
'pre_option_comment_registration',
'__return_true'
);
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45. Dependencies
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46. CDN
Configuration
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47. DNS
Changeovers
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48. Thanks!
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49. Questions
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50. Confident
Commits
Delightful
Deploys
Mark Jaquith
“JAKE-with”
@markjaquith
mark@jaquith.me
markjaquith.com
Friday, July 26, 13