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A pipeline that treats WordPress like code — local environment, Git, staging and deploys, and the path away from dragging files over FTP.
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Development workflow Intro
The three options differ less in convenience than in what they share with production. Once you know which differences matter to this project, the choice is quick.
Development workflow Intro
One rule decides it: did we write this? Credentials and generated content are not source, and once they are in the repository the problem is no longer reversible.
Security Practical
A committed secret is a leaked secret. Rewriting history does not take it back, and the only remaining fix is rotation.
Development workflow Practical
WordPress stores serialised PHP arrays in options and meta, with string lengths written inside them. A SQL REPLACE changes the value and leaves the length behind.