Can I have a current and beta website sharing the same database?

  • ajaxthemestudios

    (@ajaxthemestudios)


    3 years, 9 months ago

    Hello

    We have a news website that we want to redesign. The current website is quite large with a large database. Many news are published daily on the website. So we do not want to create a copy for the new development.
    We want to completely redesign the website as well as make some adjustments to some part of the website and we need all the current content to do it.
    I have seen some news website created a new url for a redesigned website with the same active and daily content like the current website while the redesigned website is presented for beta testing.
    How can I achieve this on WP? I would have loved to connect the new website to the old website’s database but for problem with URL.
    Any one who has resolved this issue before please share your idea?

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • JNashHawkins

    (@jnashhawkins)

    3 years, 9 months ago

    A lot of those share the pertinent tables for posts but that gets messy if you are not careful…

    You can copy over the database then change the settings on it for your test site.

    One way syndication might be a better option.

    —
    I’m not a big fine of redesigns myself. Every time I’ve seen drastic changes to any site I’ve been following… those are usually followed by bugs, missing content, forgotten features, and often visitor complaints followed by an exodus.

    Slow, steady, well thought out changes make me happy… but I am old and set in my ways.

    Thread Starter ajaxthemestudios

    (@ajaxthemestudios)

    3 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you for your input.

    The database is very large so its discouraging downloading it and installaing on the new development site.

    Also, by the time the new site is ready, it would be days and new contents are added everyday to the current site so the new website would not be up-to-date. And we cant shut down the site for maintenace as it is a daily news site.

    Maybe I will just copy specific tables I need.

    Wish there is a way to have the new development side by side on the same site but with its own temporary URL while the new template and new plugins are customized on the development site.

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