Best practice for pre-launch development

  • Resolved Sheila

    (@sheilahoff)


    16 years, 7 months ago

    I’ve been designing static websites for several years and recently started integrating WP blogs into existing sites for clients. Now it looks like I’ll be developing some WP sites. I’m scratching my head about how to develop the site before going live with the domain name. Up until now the static site’s been live and the blog went in a folder called blog. Now for a new site that will be entirely built using WP how does one do that?

    I tried setting up a new site for the client but of course since the domain name isn’t yet resolved none of the WP links work. If I install it into a directory of an existing site and develop it can I then move it all to the new place later? I imagine that’s possible but a PITA. Surely there’s a simple way people are doing this and I just am not seeing it.

    Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

    Sheila

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Could be this easy. Assuming WordPress is in the blog folder…

    To make WordPress available at http://mydomain.com just change in Settings->General, the Blog address (URL) to http://mydomain.com and put this index.php file in your web-root folder (it is the same folder that contains the blog folder)

    <?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

    Then update your permalinks in Settings->Permalinks.

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Of course you could install WordPress on your local computer using something like Xampp, do the development there, then follow Moving WordPress when the time is ripe.

    Thread Starter Sheila

    (@sheilahoff)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Perfect…thanks Michael.

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