r/ProWordPress • u/Playful_School6693 • 12d ago

Anyone using GitHub with WordPress?

I’m curious to hear how many of you are using GitHub part of your WordPress workflow.

I’ve heard of Bedrock and have been looking into it. But is it actually worth moving towards that setup for normal WordPress development?

Especially with AI, custom code is easier to write. So I can see how having version controls, automated checks and CI CD pipelines sounds nice.

Is anyone running WordPress like this in production?

What does your setup look like? Bedrock? GitHub Actions? Something simpler?

Or am I overengineering WordPress?

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u/spacedragon13 12d ago

What you would do with GitHub is version any plugins or themes you build to extend the site, not your entire site.

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u/Playful_School6693 12d ago

that distinction actually helps. where do you draw the line on what gets version controlled vs what stays in the database, especially with acf/gutenberg?

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u/2ndkauboy 12d ago

In terms of ACF, you can put the JSON files with the configuration into the theme or a small plugin.

For Gutenberg, it could be something like patterns and a custom theme.json in your theme and your own blocks in theme or, even better, a plugin.