WordPress Upgrade/Plugin Updates

• Checkout new branch
• Set up local dev site
• If project has Composer, run composer update
• Else manually update plugins

Updating plugins/WordPress version manually

• add define('FS_METHOD', 'direct'); to wp-config.php
• locally, run sudo chown -R www {{wordpress_root_folder}}
• Go to /wp-admin and have WordPress update the plugins and WordPress Version
• When done, run sudo chown -R $(whoami) {{wordpress_root_folder}} (git doesn't track file owners, but git can't commit if you don't own folder)
• Remove define('FS_METHOD', 'direct'); from wp-config.php (wp-config.php is in .gitignore)

Quirks

Make sure to check if your site is cached!!!

• If localhost is redirecting to staging or prod after a database dump, CHECK THE BROWSER CACHE