theme migration

  • steweill

    (@steweill)


    8 months, 2 weeks ago

    I am building a new theme for an existing site. I used the wpvivid staging staging. So now that it is done, and ready to go live, I would like to add the theme to the existing live site (not push the staging live because there is a lot of posts and content added to the live site since development). However the theme has the staging site’s paths in the db right? Do I do a search and replace before moving the theme to the live site? Any best practices for this? Is there anything else I have missed that I would need to do? I appreciate any tips from anyone who has done this. TIA!

    • This topic was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by steweill.
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  • Thread Starter steweill

    (@steweill)

    8 months, 2 weeks ago

    On second thought, should I take the new content from the live site (posts, pages, users and media) and move it to the staging site and then push it live once everything is perfect?

    Plugin Support nicholas2019

    (@nicholas2019)

    8 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hello,

    Pushing or migrating a staging site to the live environment will overwrite the live site’s existing content with that of the staging site. Therefore, we recommend adding your necessary content directly to the live site first, and then creating a new staging site from that updated live version. While working on the staging site, avoid adding any further new content to the live site.

    Once you have finished building the new theme on the staging site, you can then migrate the staging site to the live environment. Before proceeding with any site migration, please ensure you create full backups of both your live and staging sites and upload them to your cloud storage as a precautionary measure.

    Kind regards.

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