What is a good way to set up a dev, staging and production workflow with wordpress

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Published on 2010-06-04T03:15:39Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 4:32 UTC
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Wordpress presents some challenges since it tends to keep too much in the database, making it hard to move from server to server.

What are some other issues to look out for?

What was your workflow like?

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