Author: Drew Jaynes

Drew is a former Core Developer for the WordPress open source project, and he works on cool plugins like AffiliateWP, Easy Digital Downloads, and Restrict Content Pro.

New local-to-live deployment plugin falls a bit short

A new local-to-live deployment plugin called WP Live Server Deploy was brought to my attention last week by a post over at WP Force.

The plugin boasts an automated set of features to handle the menial tasks of MySQL dumps + find & replace, plus handling your file transfers. Out of the box it seemed pretty promising. I’d say the biggest disappointment out of the box is a complete lack of SFTP/SSH support for the transfer. You can only do so much over FTP alone and the plugin failed miserably to handle the MySQL part of the equation.

Along that vein, there’s a so-called “Manual” option for handling the MySQL dumps. This would be fine, except that it doesn’t work — it nets an empty SQL file. I’d say @sagetarian has some work to do yet, but I’m looking forward to seeing another iteration. You can download the plugin via the WP.org repo and/or follow development on Github.

The Quest to Manage Code

In the last several years I’ve fostered a particularly nasty habit of neither organizing nor collecting all of my code snippets into a centralized place.

I’ve gotten into the habit of using live sites as living repositories that I just visit when I need something. A friend of mine just started using something called JCodeCollector (Mac) I thought I’d take for a spin.

If I’m not mistaken, TextMate also has a snippet manager built into it. I guess I’ll check back with how my “organizational” project goes in a future post. What do you use to manage your code snippets?