Ability to access any WordPress version

[johnbillion]

For a while now I've had a rather funky setup for my WordPress development environment which allows me to access any WordPress version simply by changing the domain name. For example, to access the 3.9.1 tag I visit 391.wp. To access the 4.0 branch I visit 40.wp.

I access Multisite variants by prepending m to the domain, such as m381.wp for Multisite on 3.8.1. I can also access the built version by prepending b, such as b40.wp for the built version of the 4.0 branch.

The reason it's done with domain names instead of just using example.wp/branches/4.0 is to avoid cookie clashes when working with Multisite, and the ability to quickly view and clear cookies by domain.

This is incredibly handy when testing if issues reported against core exist in previous versions.

Is this something that could be useful in VVV? I'd be willing to do some work on it if so.

[grappler]

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[cfoellmann]

Do you use some "trick" or provision all these sites?

[jeremyfelt]

This would be very useful! I'm thinking we should get configuration in order first so that one can easily pick and choose what sites they want to bring up.

Would this make sense as additional VVV repositories, similar to @cfoellmann's multisite one? https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/vvv-multisite

[jeremyfelt]

I think something like this becomes a lot easier now that #980 has been merged. We could setup an additional vvv-wp-versions repo or similar that provides the nginx config and all of the various WP versions as needed.

[tomjn]

This is implemented in https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/custom-site-template via the wp_version custom flag

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