Git WordPress workflow for Local Development to Staging Site

This guide shows a Git WordPress workflow and demonstrates version control using Git from a local development environment on macOS to a staging site web server. For the Database control and pushing to staging, we will use WP Migrate Pro. A second remote repo…

Script a WordPress Valet Install on macOS – bash/wp-cli/wp-cli-valet

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By creating a bash script with wp-cli and wp-cli-valet commands on macOS you can create a streamlined and tailored WordPress install using Valet on your local development, this reduces repetitious tasks after a site installation – similar to a blueprint in…

Hiding a WordPress Development Site from Googles Search Engine Index

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Hiding a WordPress development website from the Google search engine index is something you need to do and can be done in a couple of ways. Why you need to do it is that once your pages are indexed they’ll…

Background Images Disappearing in Beaver Builder on Site Deployment

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Having a WordPress website built with Beaver Builder may lose its CSS background images when deploying from one location to another, this may be from local/staging to production or swapping between webhost environments. This can be typically resolved by nuking the…

Install and set up wp-cli WordPress on shared and local hosting

WordPress has a command line tool called wp-cli which operates similar to what Drush does for Drupal, it runs on OSX/Linux operating systems with a minimum of PHP 5.3.2 or later and WordPress 3.5.2. This guide will go through getting and installing wp-cli and…