Following are the slides from my presentation last night at the Milwaukee WordPress Meetup. Without the context of my talk and the question and answer session that followed, they lack context but nonetheless here they are. The goal of the presentation is being able to do WordPress development on your standalone machine without an internet connection.
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Good notes. Here are few others worth considering:You can use the WP_SITEURL config option to override the wp_options table value for siteurl. This make it a lot easier to have a dev instance using an exact copy of your production database.http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#WordPress_address_.28URL.29Deploying WordPress from SVN is the best deployment method. I recommend pulling plugins from SVN too. Most are on http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ If a plugin or theme is not available via a revision control system I would check these into a local repo. Having everything under revision control make it easy to track changes and deploy with confidence. SVN Externals can be helpful to manage the different checkouts http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.externals.htmlIf your WordPress instance is configured to store uploaded media locally consider using one of the plugins that will place your media on Amazon S3. If you prefer to keep media local, you can manually commit media to your svn repo or setup a script to automate the task.Bottom line: your entire wordpress site should be under revision control (SVN, git, whatever works for you).
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Great additions to the notes I provided. It probably is time to get all my sites under version control. There’s a fun weekend project…