title: Team Development of a Wordpress Site
body: <p>I'm not a Wordpress developer, but I'm trying to determine the optimal way for a team of folks to work with Wordpress. For a Rails project or most anything else, it's easy to work locally and deploy upstream, but my understanding is that Wordpress doesn't make this quite as easy. Maybe this is a myth?</p>
  
  <p>From what I gather, it's not uncommon for URLs and file paths to be stored in the database which seems like it would make it difficult to deploy a WP project from dev --> stg --> prd (where each environment has it's own URL and possibly different file paths), much less for individual developers to have their own dev environment that would need to be "merged" into a unified copy for deployment.</p>
  
  <p>I could configure all developer sandboxes to use a single database, but here again, if URLs and file paths are stored then nothing is gained.</p>
  
  <p>There are a series of smaller questions here, but the more I think about those, the more I realize that what I'm really asking for is advice about how to structure things for optimal development of a WordPress site that will be hacked on by a team of developers. I'd <em>prefer</em> the sandboxed approach we use for other projects, but I have no idea if/how things can be unified once all development is complete.</p>
  
  <p>Li'l help here?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>