Backing Up Event Site

  • jheers80

    (@jheers80)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    [ Moderator note: moved to Fixing WordPress. Please do not use Developing With WordPress for these topics. ]

    I created a wordpress installation for our yearly conference. It worked great. Now, I’m starting to get ready to plan and create the site for next year’s event. Is there a way I can “move” the current root directory (or at least main page) to a different directory so I can keep all of the 2017 info in a directory, and review it as needed (including the theme), while beginning to develop next year’s site? Or do I need to “clear out” the content/posts/pages for this year to start over?

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  • a2hostinglk

    (@a2hostinglk)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    You should look into this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-clone-by-wp-academy/

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    I don’t see the point in cloning the entire site. Don’t forget that in WP, all end user facing “directories” are virtual, representing categories, post types, etc. All content is in the DB, the actual server directories are not anything the end user deals with.

    Each year’s content could be managed as a category or special taxonomy. “2018” may not be a good category, WP may confuse it with a date request. “year-2018” would be a great category. Any boiler plate that is the same from year to year can be managed by custom page templates. Each year, start a new page, assigning the new category and fill the fields that vary each time. WP can put everything together for complete content.

    There could even be a once a year script that auto-generates a new set of pages, you merely need to go through and fill in the unique information for the year. Of course all of this would involve some custom coding. Once it’s done though, generating content for a new year couldn’t get much easier.

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