How to Auto-Deploy a Static WordPress Website From GitHub to Web Host

Here’s what you need to make this work:

A GitHub account
The GitHub Desktop app
A workflow set based on this repo

Create a repo for your static site.

Create an action/workflow in that repo. Put this in the main.yml file of that workflow:

on: push
name: 🚀 Deploy website on push
jobs:
  web-deploy:
    name: 🎉 Deploy
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: 🚚 Get latest code
      uses: actions/checkout@v4
    
    - name: 📂 Sync files
      uses: SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action@v4.3.5
      with:
        server: ftp.yourdomain.com
        username: ${{ secrets.MYFTPUSERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.MYFTPPASSWORD }}
        server-dir: if/not/in/the/root/dir

on: push
name: 🚀 Deploy website on push
jobs:
  web-deploy:
    name: 🎉 Deploy
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: 🚚 Get latest code
      uses: actions/checkout@v4
    
    - name: 📂 Sync files
      uses: SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action@v4.3.5
      with:
        server: ftp.yourdomain.com
        username: ${{ secrets.MYFTPUSERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.MYFTPPASSWORD }}
        server-dir: if/not/in/the/root/dir

Save it.

Create “Secrets” to store your FTP login and password. Go to your repo and then to:

Save everything.

Now every time you update the repo, this automation will roll out the latest changes straight to your web host.

Note: if the initial deploy fails, create an empty .ftp-deploy-sync-state.json file in the repo and try again. Can delete afterwards.

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