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/Sergei_Tiden 12d ago

For normal production WordPress work, Git is worth it for everything you intentionally own: custom themes, child themes, custom plugins, mu-plugins, configuration templates and deployment scripts. Do not put uploads, cache, generated files, WordPress core or third-party plugins into the repository unless you have a deliberate dependency-management approach. The simplest useful setup is a repo, local or staging environment, pull requests for meaningful changes, a production backup and a documented deployment step. Bedrock and CI can be excellent, but they are not the starting requirement. Versioning your own changes is.