I'm new to wordpress, coming from the python/django world where there are pretty established standards for development workflows and site deployment, so I'm trying to find some guidance on how to manage a deployment. For some background on what I'm trying to do: I'm taking over an e-commerce wordpress deployment hosted on Digital Ocean. The site is live, and although in the long term we will likely migrate to a different platform, so this is a somewhat temporary solution to be able to make some customizations to the installed themes and easily deploy to digital ocean while keeping things under (version) control. I've been trying out [Efeqdev's method][1] setting up wordpress as a submodule. After running into issues serving static files in MAMP on OS X, I finally got it working. Now I'm getting these problem with installed plugins: Strict Standards: Redefining already defined constructor for class WXR_Parser_Regex in [...]/project-wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-importer/parsers.php on line 408 Strict Standards: Declaration of WP_Import::bump_request_timeout() should be compatible with WP_Importer::bump_request_timeout($val) in [...]/project-wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-importer/wordpress-importer.php on line 38 Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at [...]/project-wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-importer/parsers.php:408) in [...]/project-wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ninja-forms/ninja-forms.php on line 638 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [...]/project-wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-importer/parsers.php:408) in [...]/project-wordpress/wordpress/wp-includes/option.php on line 750 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [...]/project-wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-importer/parsers.php:408) in [...]/project-wordpress/wordpress/wp-includes/option.php on line 751 Of course, once I did all the work and reading through the comments on post, it seems like the they had moved onto deploying using [Bedrock][2]. My hesitation about using Bedrock is that it seems like Composer will manage the plugins for me and might wipe out any customizations I may have made to them. As I said, not extremely familiar with PHP/Wordpress, so if I'm wrong about that, and it seems like a saner option, please do let me know. [1]: http://efeqdev.com/website-development/this-is-how-we-version-control-and-deploy-our-wordpress-websites-with-git/ [2]: http://roots.io/wordpress-stack/