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The huge problem I see with this is going to be when people try to do this on shared hosting, which is the largest portion of WP sites, especially the sites not
by programminggeek 12y ago
The huge problem I see with this is going to be when people try to do this on shared hosting, which is the largest portion of WP sites, especially the sites not updating regularly.
Good luck explaining git setup, ssh keys, etc. to end users who aren't devs or sysadmins.
- borekb 12y agoThough we don't promise this for v1, VersionPress on a common LAMP hosting is certainly something we will do in the future and have prototypes of how it could be done. Of course, the end user will be completely abstracted from things you mentioned, it is our mission to provide version control in a way that everyone can use (i.e., if you don't know Git, fine, you don't have to).
- muxxa 12y agoHave you surveyed how many WordPress installations are on shared hosting? I think that much of the success of WordPress is attributable to the fact it can be installed via Fantastico with the click of a button, I wouldn't be surprised if more than 90% of WordPress(.org) installations in the wild are on shared hosting. The problem is that Git is not installable on shared hosting afaik, so it strikes me as a very weird match for Wordpress.
- borekb 12y agoHi muxxa, rest assured that we know about this and common LAMP hosting support will certainly come. It's just that to implement the support is relatively time consuming and we don't want to promise for v1 something that we know we will be able to deliver. But don't worry, it is our goal to run everywhere where plain WordPress can so common hosting support is coming.