Posts tagged: commands

Use git rebase -i to squash, reorder, and edit commits before merging a feature branch, keeping your project history readable and clean.

Use git stash to save work in progress when switching branches for urgent fixes in WordPress theme development, with pop apply and branch commands.

Set up a bare Git repository and post-receive hook on your server to deploy WordPress changes automatically on git push.

Use ps, top, kill and systemctl to find runaway PHP processes and manage Apache, MySQL and PHP-FPM on Linux servers.

Implement the Gitflow branching model for WordPress projects with feature, release and hotfix branches.

Master WP-CLI commands for search-replace, database export, plugin updates, thumbnail regeneration and cron management.

Version control transforms the way WordPress projects are managed, and Git has become the universal standard for tracking code changes across the entire web development industry. Without version control, making changes to a live WordPress theme or plugin is a high-stakes guessing game: you modify a file, something breaks, and if you did not manually…

WordPress developers spend a significant portion of their time working on remote Linux servers: deploying code, diagnosing errors, managing files, and monitoring performance. Knowing a core set of Linux command-line tools removes the dependency on cPanel file managers, FTP clients, and hosting control panel dashboards — all of which are slower, less capable, and sometimes…

Useful Linux commands for web development In web development, we typically work with a LAMP stack, which means spending a fair amount of time in the terminal. Here I’ve collected the commands I reach for most often.