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Wordmove is a 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 connections are fully supported, while FTP support is planned to be discontinued when new features will be introduced.

Think of it like Capistrano for Wordpress, complete with push/pull capabilities.

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Installation

That's easy:

gem install wordmove

Usage

> 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

Move inside the Wordpress folder and use wordmove init to generate a new Movefile and edit it with your settings. Read the next paragraph for more info.

See the wiki article: Usage and flags explained for more info.

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Movefile

You can configure Wordmove creating a Movefile. That's just a YAML file with local and remote host infos:

local:
  vhost: "http://vhost.local"
  wordpress_path: "/home/john/sites/your_site" # use an absolute path here

  database:
    name: "database_name"
    user: "user"
    password: "password"
    host: "127.0.0.1"

  # paths: # you can customize wordpress internal paths
  #   wp_content: "wp-content"
  #   uploads: "wp-content/uploads"
  #   plugins: "wp-content/plugins"
  #   themes: "wp-content/themes"
  #   languages: "wp-content/languages"

production:
  vhost: "http://example.com"
  wordpress_path: "/var/www/your_site" # use an absolute path here

  database:
    name: "database_name"
    user: "user"
    password: "password"
    host: "host"
    # port: "3308" # Use just in case you have exotic server config
    # mysqldump_options: "--max_allowed_packet=50MB" # Only available if using SSH

  exclude:
    - ".git/"
    - ".gitignore"
    - ".sass-cache/"
    - "bin/"
    - "tmp/*"
    - "Gemfile*"
    - "Movefile"
    - "wp-config.php"
    - "wp-content/*.sql"

  ssh:
    host: "host"
    user: "user"

We warmly recommend to read the wiki article Multiple environments explained if you need multi-stage support, and the wiki article Movefile configurations explained to understand about the supported configurations.

Supports

OS

OS X and Linux are fully supported.

See the Windows (un)support disclaimer

SSH

  • You need rsync on your machine; as far as we know it's already installed on OS X and Linux.
  • if you want to use your SSH public key for authentication,just delete the production.ssh.password field in your Movefile. Easy peasy.
  • writing the password inside the move file was and is somewhat supported, but we discourage this practice in favor of password-less authentication with pub key. Read here for old informations.

FTP

  • You need to install lftp on your machine. See community wiki article: Install lftp on OSX yosemite).
  • Use the relative FTP path as production.wordpress_path
  • Use the absolute FTP path as production.wordpress_absolute_path (you may need to recover this from the __FILE__ magic constant
  • if you want to specify a passive FTP connection add to the YAML config a production.ftp.passive flag and set it to true.

FTP support is planned to be discontinued at some point of future development.

Multistage

You can define multiple environments in your Movefile, such as production, staging, etc. Use -e with pull or push to run the command on the specified environment.

For example:

wordmove push -e staging -d

will push your local database to the staging environment only.

We warmly recommend to read the wiki article: Multiple environments explained

Notes

How the heck you are able to sync the DB via FTP?

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.

Yanked versions

Wordmove 1.3.1 has been removed from rubygems due to a bug with FTP deploying system. If you are using this version, please update soon (gem update wordmove).

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Credits

Contribute

In order to promote a simpler contribution workflow we have decided to fork and PR the master branch. We will accordingly tag and release or pre-release versions to the rubygems.org repository. Do not consider the dev branch for your forks and PR. We will never more use version-named branches as in the past, but we'll tag release on master and pre-release on dev.

Please, read the full contributor guide.

Feel free to open an issue about contribution if more you need more info

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2013-2015 weLaika

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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