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How do you handle the database in your git Repositories? I'm asking because I never found a good solution for Version control of Systems like Joomla and WordPress. Optimally I'd like to be able to install and Setup a plugin on my Dev machine, then push that to production, as I would do with, for example a Rails App.

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We only version the wp-content folder. We have automated db backups that we retain in multiple locations on a schedule.

Our hosts let us duplicate the db various ways between staging/prod and we just do a copy and search+replace for local development. We used to use WP DB Migrate Pro for that last part but it is buggy to the point of nonfunctional now.

So yes, you do have to do plugin setup/site configuration on dev, staging and prod. I don't see a good workaround for that, but the duplication of work leading up to production has allowed us to catch problems before hitting production.

Take a look at VersionPress.

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