Reading Time: 7 minutes Having wind in your sails means that you have resources working to your advantage in a natural way, and beyond the nautical reference as the literal meaning to that it can be applied to web development and WordPress websites too. If you are deploying WordPress and you’re putting something together that’s beyond a basic blog publishing platform for the website then there are going to be times where it’s going to be advantageous to be benefitting from natural momentum. In this instance we’re using the analogy to talk about CI/CD Workflows and with this week’s blog entry here we will go into detail about how managed WordPress hosting with CI/CD is such a good choice for WordPress site development. These workflows automate the software development lifecycle, from code commit to production deployment, and what’s most notable in the context of WordPress development for a site is the ability to be facilitating continuous deployment. All of that will be dependent on the developer committing code to a shared repository, and this is what’s meant when someone is said to have ‘established the pipeline’ for WordPress deployment. Managed hosting for developers tends to be a better choice because there are going to be frameworks in place via the web hosting provider that make all of this a more expedited process. The builder is still going to need to have a fair degree of WordPress web development savvy, however, and we’ll assume that applies to you if you’re going to be reading further here. Manual approval is going to be required for automated deployment to production too, but once you’re at the point along the production timeline then it tends to be clear sailing the rest of the way. We’ll stop with the seafaring references now and get right into focusing on the best approaches to using these workflows, along with why it’s best to do so when you’re already got the site sitting on a managed web hosting arrangement. We’ve talked about the need for PIPEDA compliant hosting in Canada in previous entries here as well, and a quick reminder that if your site is going to be serving eCommerce interests and...
