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My WordPress Toolbox

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Thought I’d share this with you. Here are the commands I use to “do work” on WordPress.

Connect to a remote machine (usually I do development on my laptop, locally, but sometimes I’ll work from another computer):
$ ssh -l remote_username example.com

Make a directory:
$ mkdir /path/to/wordpress/

Browse to the WordPress directory:
$ cd /path/to/wordpress/

Use SVN to download the latest WP code to the current directory (which from now on, assume is /path/to/wordpress/):
$ svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/ .

Update existing SVN checkout to latest code:
$ svn up

Search WordPress for a string (’function the_content’ in this case):
$ grep -iR 'function the_content' *

Edit a file using nano:
$ nano filename.php

Make a patch, for filename.php:
$ svn diff filename.php > filename.diff

Make a patch for all files modified in the checkout:
$ svn diff > big_patch.diff

Apply a patch from someone else:
$ patch -p0 < patch.diff

My main text editor is TextMate for OS X, but I’ll use nano if logged in to a remote system. Note that all these commands work for OS X and Linux (you’ll need svn installed… check out Fink for OS X which gives you apt-get and a bunch of nice Linux-y goodness).

Update: Peter Westwood has a tutorial for Windows users, which I recommend (I used to do development on Windows, and I used the tools that he recommends!)

Written by Mark Jaquith

November 2, 2005 at 7:41 pm

Posted in wordpress

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    November 3, 2005 at 3:55 am

  2. I don’t work on WordPress but I do develop other projects using SVN and I use Eclipse for most of the work. With a PHPeclipse and Subclipse you can do the same thing in one package. Thought your way seems to work for you.

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    November 3, 2005 at 1:36 pm

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  5. Interesting stuff, but I am new to WP and have some basic questions: Can you help?
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    November 4, 2005 at 9:59 am

  7. ssh -l username example.com -p port-number

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    November 4, 2005 at 11:36 am

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    A very helpful, yet widely unknown feature is bash’s (and other shell’s) tab completition: For example, if you want to go to /path/to/wordpress/, you type /p and press tab. You’ll either have path autocompleted, or you are shown all files/directories starting with p (if so, type the next letter, and so on). This is one of the features which saves a big bunch of time, when you’re working in the shell.

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