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Does anyone have suggestions for setting up version control for developing WordPress plugins? I'm working in a development environment, and I'm trying to avoid having to repo the entire WordPress instance. My ideal solution, is to create a repository for one individual directory that contains my plugin.

What are others using to manage their plugin development? Thanks for the advice!

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  • If you're a sole contributor, you can use any SVN client, and your repository. on your local machine ( eg TortoiseSVN. Otherwise use GitHub or BitBucket for your repository.
    – Frank P. Walentynowicz
    Jun 11, 2017 at 3:37
  • @FrankP.Walentynowicz, it is always better to use github/bitbucket or whatever other service, if only to have a simple off-site backup for your code.
    – Mark Kaplun
    Jun 11, 2017 at 3:59
  • @FrankP.Walentynowicz - so the best thing to do, would be to change directory to my plugin folder, and then run 'git init' to create a new repository, and this repository would live separately from the rest of my development wordpress instance? Does that sound right?
    – go_cuc
    Jun 11, 2017 at 4:21
  • @MarkKaplun, true.
    – Frank P. Walentynowicz
    Jun 11, 2017 at 4:34

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I personally set up a development environment as a base of my WordPress Development, where I've dummy data and some other debugging plugins. I then create my own plugin directory and do git init in it. During plugin development, I set up the Developer plugin to Plugin for a self-hosted WordPress installation. It helps me to understand my plugin's performance with other plugins and themes.

Then I add my test data specific to that plugin, develop it, test it, finalize it - git commit.

For Git remote, I use Bitbucket and Gitlab for private plugins, and Github for public plugins.

When the plugin is ready to deploy, I then test it in other development environments similar to this, with other engines (if possible). Finally release the version git tag -a v1.0.0.

This setup helped me to use a single/duo Development environment for all types of development. And other environments for testing.

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