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Discussion on: Pushing WordPress Theme Updates With Git

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Michal Lichwa

Great article! I use similar setup for all web projects (not only WP themes) I have. It is somehow annoying that there are so many great dev tools to automate our workflows yet Wordpress devs usually push their code via FTP. At least that's just my experience at places I worked for.

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Jack Harner πŸš€

For the longest time I was in the boat of "just zip it and upload it through the Admin Panel" until I started working with the customizer. Since those options are theme specific and when you upload a new zip it treats it as a whole new theme. All of the customizer options would be lost. This way's so much more efficient.

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Michal Lichwa

I had a similar approach and it wasn't great. I really wish there were better (easier) and more standarized tools to develop for Wordpress and Wordpress plugins.

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Jack Harner πŸš€

I've definitely started looking in to using Docker for WordPress. It saves a lot of time in the initial install and running of the sites.

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Michal Lichwa

Interesting. I didn't think of Docker so thanks for the tip. I will give it a try!