How to sync WooCommerce staging/live site?
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I’m redesigning a WordPress website running WooCommerce that gets new orders every week. Before starting development, I made a copy of the live site and have been making changes in a staging environment.
The theme, custom fields, some products, and other WordPress/WooCommerce settings have been heavily modified in staging. The problem is that while I have been developing the new site, the live site continued receiving orders, users, and some product updates.
What is the best approach for merging these sites? If I push my staging live, I’m concerned I’ll lose all of my recent order/user history. Is it possible to launch the new site and then re-import only the WooCommerce data (sales, users, refunds, etc.)?
Thank you for your time.
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You’ve run up against something that’s the bane of every developers existance – not just in WordPress!
At this point the only “real” way of doing it is manually. It sucks big time. I know, I’ve had to do it a few times.
I know that there’s a service called VersionPress that’s in beta, so isn’t recommended for production, and has a lot more complicated set up then just installing a plugin. That’s about the only thing that’s even close to helping out with this sort of situation.
@catacaustic darn, I was hoping to hear there’s a better solution for this. The part I’m struggling with is: would it better to manually move the redesigned site into the live site with the most current WooCommerce data, or would it be easier to instead backup WooCommerce data, push the staging live, then re-import the WooCommerce data?
I know in WordPress I can export/import specific content. Which would be easiest?
Screenshot of what I mean here: http://imgur.com/y2NqWJr
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