Wordmove is a nice little gem that lets you automatically mirror local Wordpress installations and DB data back and forth from your local development machine to the remote staging server.

Think of it like Capistrano for Wordpress, complete with push/pull capabilities.

That's easy:

gem install wordmove

> wordmove help
Tasks:
  wordmove help [TASK]  # Describe available tasks or one specific task
  wordmove init         # Generates a brand new Movefile
  wordmove pull         # Pulls WP data from remote host to the local machine
  wordmove push         # Pushes WP data from local machine to remote host

You can configure Wordmove creating a Movefile. That's just a YAML file with all the local and remote host infos:

local:
  vhost: "http://vhost.local"
  wordpress_path: "~/dev/sites/your_site"
  database:
    name: "database_name"
    username: "username"
    password: "password"
    host: "host"
remote:
  vhost: "http://remote.com"
  wordpress_path: "/var/www/your_site"
  exclude:
    - .git
    - .DS_Store
    - .sass-cache
    - Movefile
  database:
    name: "database_name"
    username: "username"
    password: "password"
    host: "host"
  ssh:
    username: "username"
    password: "password" # optional, will use SSH public key if available
    host: "host"
    port: 2202 # optional

Just drop the remote.ssh.password file on your Movefile.

You need to have sshpass on your machine. On Linux, install it with your standard package manager. On Mac, you can have it via brew:

sudo brew install https://raw.github.com/gist/1513663/3e98bf9e03feb7e31eeddcd08f89ca86163a376d/sshpass.rb

• Wordmove requires an SSH connection to the remote host;
• Wordmove requires mysqldump and mysql to be present in the remote host and executable by the SSH user;
• Wordmove requires rsync to be present and executable in your machine;
• As said above, you may also need sshpass on your machine;

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