wordlinks
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Posted 1 year ago #
I am volunteering my IT experience to an organization with a new WordPress site. Yes, blogs are easy and simple to create. However, as an IT person and business analyst I have to ask questions that people don't normally think about, like what happens when you want to redesign your look and feel but preserve your content? Even a simple thing like a Theme change can have unintended consequences that should be tested and verified before going back online. In the meantime, the original site should continue operating until cutover.
This kind of discussion seems outside the normal forum chatter.
Who in the community has worked with issues like this for major sites and might be willing to answer some questions? Does anyone have any recommended articles? Thanks in advance.
It all depends on how you go about working with wordpress like there are some server programs that you can install on your computer and do all your work customizing on your computer for theme and then when ready you can upload the theme to your live website and switch theme.
All your content will still be there as that is all saved in database all your plugins and uploads are in wp-content folder so they are there for new theme to use.
or
You can install another wordpress on the server and do you customizing on line the benefit of doing it on server is that you can work on theme from any computer where as by installing server on your computer you will have to work from the desktop or laptop the server is installed.
wordlinks
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Yes, I was planning to have development and production sites on the same hosting service. WWW would be the production subdomain. Something else for development or test. Example: test.theirdomain.com.
I sense that migrating (or cutting over) is not a fully automated process. I am trying to plan a procedure and outline the sequence activities and eventually the duration, for each step.
Thanks for your tips!
