WordPress staging Module

Newfold module for staging functionality in brand plugins.

Module Responsibilities

• Adds a staging page in the brand plugin app and navigation.
• Displays an indicator of current environment (production or staging) in the staging page.
• On staging, add an indicator to the WordPress admin bar showing the current environment is staging.
• The staging page displays details about the production and a staging site if it exists.
  • Production site details are the url - which matches the home url of the website.
  • Staging site details are the url and creation date.
• On the production site, selecting the staging site will switch to that environment.
• On the staging site, selecting the production site will switch to that environment.
• On the production site, the production section of the staging page includes a button to create a staging site if one doesn't already exist.
• On the production site, the production section of the staging page includes a button to clone to staging if a staging site already exists.
• On the production site, the staging section of the staging page includes a button to delete the staging site if one exist
• On the staging site, the staging section of the staging page includes a button to deploy the staging site to production.
  • This deploy button includes options to deploy:
    • All changes
    • Database only
    • Files only

Critical Paths

• A user can create a staging site from production.
• A user can clone the current production site to an existing staging site.
• A user can switch to staging from production.
• A user is notified clearly they are on a staging site.
• A user can switch to production from staging.
• A user can deploy staging changes to a production site.
• A user can delete a staging site from production.

Installation

1. Add the Newfold Satis to your composer.json.

composer config repositories.newfold composer https://newfold-labs.github.io/satis

2. Require the newfold-labs/wp-module-staging package.

composer require newfold-labs/wp-module-staging

3. Instantiate the Features singleton to load all features.

Features::getInstance();

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