Title: Development and Production Environment
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Development and Production Environment

 *  [mmarhala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmarhala/)
 * (@mmarhala)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-and-production-environment/)
 * Morning All
 * I need some help in understanding basic stuff.
    I want to setup a clean method
   of 1. Replicating Production site into development site. So that I can do any
   future development in non-production environment. E.g. [http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com)
   and [http://www.example.com/devsite](http://www.example.com/devsite) 2. How to
   bring across any change done and tested in development site into Production, 
   do I have to restore it or just have to manual made those changes in Production
   again. 3. Also, how can I hide the dev site from google indexing or public publishing.
   Please guide me any steps or link to refer.

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 *  [beaudaignault](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beaudaignault/)
 * (@beaudaignault)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-and-production-environment/#post-7056524)
 * Hello!
    A common setup is:
    - Develop (often, a child theme) locally with MAMP, XAMPP, ServerPress, et. 
      al.
    - Move the local files to a live staging server, for example, a sub-domain –
      _staging.yoursite.com_ – of a domain in your possession.
    - When your staging site checks out clean and relatively bug free, move the 
      data and files to the desired URL.
 * Synchronize these local and remote databases by plugin (WP Migrate DB, for example),
   or by various manual methods. Read this helpful codex page on the subject of 
   [ Moving WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress).
 * Have fun!

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