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.
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.
That's easy:
gem install wordmove
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: experimental and optional |
| lftp | all | Yes, for FTP connections |
| ssh | all | Yes, for SSH connections |
> 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.
- Push all WordPress, including database and uploads: http://vimeo.com/74648079
- Pull database and uploads, adapting paths and urls: http://vimeo.com/74646861
- Push only theme, transfer only modified files: http://vimeo.com/74647529
You can configure Wordmove creating a Movefile. That's just a YAML file with local and remote host 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: "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.
OS X and Linux are fully supported.
See the Windows (un)support disclaimer
- You need
rsyncon 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.passwordfield in yourMovefile. 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.
- You need to install
lftpon 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.passiveflag and set it totrue.
FTP support is planned to be discontinued at some point of future development.
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
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.
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).
Visit Wordpress Tools.
- The dump script is the
MYSQL-dumpPHP package by David Grudl - The import script used is the BigDump library
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
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