Wordmove

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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 server.

Wordmove has also a neat hook system which enables you to run arbitrary commands before and after push/pull actions. Local and remote commands are both supported, but remote ones will be run only if using SSH protocol. Read the dedicated wiki page for more info.

FTP support has been discontinued, thus most recent features won’t work, while base functionalities are granted.

Build Status Slack channel Gem Version

Installation

That’s easy:

gem install wordmove

And to update:

gem update wordmove

Peer dependencies

Wordmove just acts as automation glue bewtween tools you already have and love. These are its peer dependencies which you need to have installed and in your $PATH:

Program Actions Mandatory?
rsync Push and pull files and dirs Yes for SSH connections
mysql Import and dump database Yes
wp-cli DB adapt Nope (but soon will be)
lftp all Yes, for FTP connections
ssh all Yes, for SSH connections

Usage

> wordmove help
Commands:
  wordmove --version, -v    # Print the version
  wordmove doctor           # Do some local configuration and environment checks
  wordmove help [TASK]      # Describe available tasks or one specific task
  wordmove init             # Generates a brand new movefile.yml
  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.yml 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.yml

You can configure Wordmove creating a movefile.yml. That’s a YAML file with local and remote host(s) infos:

global:
  sql_adapter: default

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: localhost

  # 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
    - movefile
    - movefile.yml
    - movefile.yaml
    - wp-config.php
    - wp-content/*.sql

  ssh:
    host: host
    user: user

  # hooks: # Remote hooks won't work with FTP
  #   push:
  #     before:
  #       local:
  #         - 'echo "Do something locally before push"'
  #       remote:
  #         - 'echo "Do something remotely before push"'
  #     after:
  #       local:
  #         - 'echo "Do something locally after push"'
  #       remote:
  #         - 'echo "Do something remotely after push"'
  #   pull:
  #     before:
  #       local:
  #         - 'echo "Do something locally before pull"'
  #       remote:
  #         - 'echo "Do something remotely before pull"'
  #     after:
  #       local:
  #         - 'echo "Do something locally after pull"'
  #       remote:
  #         - 'echo "Do something remotely after pull"'

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.

Multistage

You can define multiple environments in your movefile.yml, 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

Supports

OS

OS X and Linux are fully supported.

See the Windows (un)support disclaimer

SSH

FTP

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

Notes

Mirroring

Push and pull actions on files will perform a mirror operation. Please, keep in mind that to mirror means to transfer new/updated files and remove files from destination if not present in source.

This means that if you have files/directories on your remotes which you must preserve, you must exclude those in your movefile.yml, or they will be deleted.

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).

Need more tools?

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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

Author

made with ❤️ and ☕️ by weLaika

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2013-2018 weLaika

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