In part 1 we looked at how to store and manage your WordPress site in Git, however we deliberately didn’t include anything in the wp-content folder in our Git repo. This means that you would need to manually migrate any themes and plugins that you have installed on your site.

One way to get around manually having to migrate your themes and plugins using our method is to use Composer (a package manager for PHP), so in this post we’ll be looking at how you can use it to manage the themes and plugins we didn’t store in our Git repository last time.