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0 pointsmontroser3y ago0 comments

> Isn't that also one of op team's job ? Manage backup and restore ?

Yes, and that's what they did. But it seems a broken design when it takes all that to change some copy in the footer.

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Yeah. Big workflow failures here. The person who changed the code doesn't have a revision system in place or the skills/knowledge to put the site back up after such a minor edit :/.

Nextgrid3y ago

How do you even reliably version-control something that relies on editing its own code?

johnchristopher3y ago

There's some confusion here. WordPress themes and plug-ins don't rely on the built-in web editor. That's why it can be safely disabled.

What that guy did is no different from sshing into the prod server, live editing a Django plug-in and refreshing the browser.

Version control of the plug-in won't protect from that. But it's a handy tool to manage regressions.

Rolling back changes and editing a live plug-in are different problems.

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0 pointsmontroser3y ago0 comments

> Isn't that also one of op team's job ? Manage backup and restore ?

Yes, and that's what they did. But it seems a broken design when it takes all that to change some copy in the footer.

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johnchristopher3y ago

Yeah. Big workflow failures here. The person who changed the code doesn't have a revision system in place or the skills/knowledge to put the site back up after such a minor edit :/.

Nextgrid3y ago

How do you even reliably version-control something that relies on editing its own code?

johnchristopher3y ago

There's some confusion here. WordPress themes and plug-ins don't rely on the built-in web editor. That's why it can be safely disabled.

What that guy did is no different from sshing into the prod server, live editing a Django plug-in and refreshing the browser.

Version control of the plug-in won't protect from that. But it's a handy tool to manage regressions.

Rolling back changes and editing a live plug-in are different problems.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse