Wondering what the directory structure is for trunk, plugins, and templates within wordpress?

I currently have it as:

wp-content/plugins/simple-press <–this is where I have the trunk file

and logically…

wp-content/plugins/simple-press/forum-plugins <–this is where I have the plugins

wp-content/plugins/simple-press/forum-themes <–this is where I have the themes

Basic tips, the the trunk folder needs to be named to “simple-press”, you should not have “/plugins/simple-press/trunk”.

If you have ssh, you should run (from wp-plugins):

svn co http://svn.simple-press.com/trunk simple-press

Then it is recommended that the themes and plugins are stored in wp-content (as states right above)

svn co http://svn.simple-press.com/plugins forum-plugins

svn co http://svn.simple-press.com/templates forum-themes

Then to update these folders, just cd into them and run: svn up.

If you want to remove all your local edits, you can run this too: svn revert -R *

I would just add that you can locate ‘themes’ and ‘plugins’ wherever you like but I would strongly recommend to keep them out of the WP plugins folder. As cubehouse says – we put them by default under wp-content.
The import thing is that when you visit the forum admin > integration > Storage Locations, the location of the folders must be correct there as that is where SP will look for them.

OK I have installed Tortoise SVN and I have successfully got the files and I am running the forum software on a test site, not locally. I want some other users to be able to break things. This entails updating via SVN and then using an ftp program to update, this is obviously not ideal.

I did not initially have SSH for the domain in question but now I do. I can start a session with PuTTY and I have created the necessary private and and public keys.

What do I need to do to use tortoise SVN over SSH. Sorry for the newbie question but I have never had to do this before.

you dont use tortoise svn… you just use plain svn…

so the basic command you will want is

svn update

or

svn checkout

complete reference:  http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/index.html

but since you are remote and access limited, not all commands will work…

also, will require you to have svn installed on server, but usually is…

and I hope this is still a test site…  this code is still alpha and not fully tested…  as you know, there are bugs and will be bugs…  and how upgrades for the current live sites works may change between now and the release…

make sure this is NOT a production site as we reiterated multiple times…  I know you said test site, just making sure…

It is a test site and utterly unimportant, its not even on the same server as the real site but on some independent web space that I have.

I have svn working but the repository is on my local machine and I don’t want it there, I want it on the server that hosts the test site. I have SSH working, I can log in using PuTTY but I have no idea how to make SVN work in this way and reading the help files is not being er helpful. The help all seems geared for local repositories, perhaps I am looking in the wrong place?

At the moment I update and have to upload the whole lot to the remote site via ftp, it’s a rubbish way of working!

So how can I start to use svn and ssh to this remote site?

I am going to have to ask Steve to advise on this as I am out of my depth when it comes to svn on the server! He was unavailable last night or I am sure he would have responded.

Meanwhile I have put what I am really hoping is a fix for the post-save ‘headers already sent’ issue (which I don’t get on my test sites!). Next time you update please do let me know if it fixes the issue – thanks.

I will do, I am asking my work IT guru how to achieve the SVN and SSH issue at which point I will update and get back to you. Assuming that he is able to get it all working that is. Failing that I will do the update via ftp when I get home.

You’re both doing a fantastic job lads.

Conrad

Conrad… I’ve kinda forgotten how Putty behaves, but can’t you just cd into wp-content/plugins and run the command above that Cubehouse posted? Then cd back into wp-content and run the other two for forum-plugins and forum-themes.

Decided to use rsync, I’m happy with that solution.

ok i have a fresh install of WP ready to go but dont quite understand how to package the files and get them on my host, is there a package or is that where the SVN comes into play?, i honestly thought i would be able to upload and upgrade the current forum to the alpha.

See the first topic in the ‘5.0 Alpha General Topics’ forum.

read it, tells me i can upgrade or fresh install, i want to fresh install but all i see are text files… sorry

I am not sure what you have done…  do you have an svn client?  and did you checkout the sp core, plugins and themes?