[natemcguire]

We've struggled with this quite a bit at our company (http://thesiteslinger.com). Much of our web development business includes WordPress...We host most of our client sites on WPEngine so the git push feature has made a lot of it easier but keeping your .sql files versioned correctly from live and local development is a pain, to say the least.

I would disagree that everything can be left up to the one click updater, versioning it all is important. That assumes you aren't creating complex functionality on your site, so no updating tables, custom development or anything that changes more than views.

It will be interesting to see if WordPress can continue to improve and grow and get new users. From a growth perspective it seems more and more like wordpress:php as rails:ruby, bringing people to the platform en masse.