November 22nd, 2020 at 11:16 PM
Yea, it's certainly advantageous to do so. Developers and professionals are well acquainted with these tools. For larger scale websites (or development projects), most certainly, version control is an absolute requirement.
It's not really meant for the average wordpress website or blog/forum though. There is sort of this mindset in the developer community that every wordpress blog owner or forum owner should be an experienced developer, and 20 years ago, that was so. You couldn't get near web administration with a 10 foot pole unless you knew how to write your website from scratch. It was otherwise laughable to even try.
Today, that's simply not the case. There are tens of millions of blogs, forums, or other websites that aren't professonal/enterprise oriented, exist on shared hosting solutions, and don't get thousands of page views monthly. And while version control is great if you're well acquainted with it, the average phpBB administrator or WP-blog owner hasn't used Git before. For everyday taks such as updating config.php files, uploading logos/images, or updating plugins/mods, solutions like TFM/Filezilla are perfect.
That said, version control has compelling advantages. I do think that version control will become much more widespread over the next decade among these sorts of websites as well. The built-in snapshot features are useful for anyone.
It's not really meant for the average wordpress website or blog/forum though. There is sort of this mindset in the developer community that every wordpress blog owner or forum owner should be an experienced developer, and 20 years ago, that was so. You couldn't get near web administration with a 10 foot pole unless you knew how to write your website from scratch. It was otherwise laughable to even try.
Today, that's simply not the case. There are tens of millions of blogs, forums, or other websites that aren't professonal/enterprise oriented, exist on shared hosting solutions, and don't get thousands of page views monthly. And while version control is great if you're well acquainted with it, the average phpBB administrator or WP-blog owner hasn't used Git before. For everyday taks such as updating config.php files, uploading logos/images, or updating plugins/mods, solutions like TFM/Filezilla are perfect.
That said, version control has compelling advantages. I do think that version control will become much more widespread over the next decade among these sorts of websites as well. The built-in snapshot features are useful for anyone.
