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Curated resource guide

WordPress CI/CD and Deployment Resources

Create safer WordPress delivery pipelines from commit through production verification. This guide covers automated quality checks, artifact builds, secrets, database migrations, SSH and managed-host deployments, cache invalidation, approvals, atomic releases, rollback planning, and monitoring after a release.

Scope

What this guide covers

  • Git-based workflows
  • branching and pull requests
  • GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines and other CI systems
  • Composer and npm builds
  • PHPCS, PHPStan, ESLint and tests in CI
  • artifact creation
  • environment configuration
  • secrets management
  • SSH and rsync deployments
  • atomic releases
  • zero/minimal-downtime deployment
  • database migrations
  • WP-CLI deployment steps
  • cache clearing
  • CDN invalidation
  • staging promotion
  • rollback strategies
  • backups
  • release tagging
  • deployment approvals
  • multisite
  • managed-host deployment approaches
  • and monitoring after release

Selected references

Curated resources

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    Recommended starting point

    GitHub Actions Reference

    Schedule and coordinate repository-driven checks, builds, releases, and remote automation with explicit permissions.

    docs.github.com
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    GitHub Actions Workflow Syntax

    Use the complete YAML reference when designing triggers, permissions, matrices, dependencies, concurrency, and reusable jobs.

    docs.github.com
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    GitHub Actions Secrets

    Official practices for creating, scoping, referencing, and limiting secrets used by build and deployment workflows.

    docs.github.com
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    Deployments and Environments

    Add approvals, branch restrictions, environment secrets, and deployment history around production releases.

    docs.github.com
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    Store and Share Workflow Data

    Build once and pass versioned artifacts between jobs instead of rebuilding different files at each deployment stage.

    docs.github.com
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    WordPress Coding Standards for PHPCS

    The canonical PHPCS ruleset for enforcing WordPress PHP conventions and catching common quality problems in CI.

    github.com
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    WP-CLI Handbook

    Compose repeatable command-line maintenance and fleet operations without driving the browser interface.

    make.wordpress.org
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    Secure Use of GitHub Actions

    Harden workflow permissions, third-party actions, untrusted input, credentials, runners, and supply-chain boundaries.

    docs.github.com
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    GitHub Actions Dependency Caching

    Speed Composer and npm jobs while treating restored caches as untrusted and keeping secrets out of cache paths.

    docs.github.com
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    GitHub Actions OpenID Connect

    Replace long-lived cloud deployment credentials with narrowly constrained, short-lived workflow identities.

    docs.github.com
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    WordPress Plugin Deploy Action

    Automate tagged WordPress.org plugin releases with a maintained action from an established WordPress engineering team.

    github.com
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    wp dist-archive

    Produce consistent deployment artifacts from source while excluding development-only files.

    developer.wordpress.org