In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Brad Touesnard of Delicious Brains about migrating, deploying, and hosting WordPress.

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Show Notes

3:50 - Why did start Delicious Brains?

5:25 - What plugins does Delicious Brains make?

11:40 - Migrating WordPress

16:50 - Migrating databases

24:20 - How do you do version control with WordPress?

37:06 - What’s the easiest way to deploy and host WordPress?

40:23 - What are some examples of managed WordPress hosts?

46:58 - What does your deployment process look like from beginning to end?

50:22 - Thoughts on headless WordPress

53:12 - Is serverless WordPress a thing?

Links

• Delicious Brains

WP Migrate DB Pro

WP Offload Media

WP Offload SES

SpinupWP

Heroku

Now.sh

WP Engine

Flywheel

Advanced Custom Fields

Composer

WP Packagist

WordPress.org

React

Laravel

Pagely

Kinsta

GoDaddy

WordPress.com

SiteFround

Buddy

Digital Ocean

Laravel Forge

npm

Codeship

Gatsby

Laravel Vapor

Installing via Composer

WordPress deployment workflow

Managing your WordPress site with Git and Composer

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