Local host to onsite production server

  • Resolved galder56

    (@galder56)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    Setting up new web server with WP 4.0. As of now I have been editing the production server as I go, a static intranet website. In this new install I am planning to add multiple private blogs and want contributors and editors to be able to edit and manage content on the new site. I have been working with different local installs (WAMP and Bitnami) thinking this would be the easiest way to have these new contributors and editors work with content before going live.
    But everything I have read doesn’t sound all that friendly for the average user. Everything is based on offsite hosting with cpanel. Creating a sudo site and then going live, etc. Sounds like training nightmare.
    Is my best option to allow editing production environment, and make sure they understand the preview before update feature? Maybe I am missing something. Any ideas?
    Thanks in advance.

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  • Jason Carter

    (@jsoncarter)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Hi galder56,

    It sounds like you want your contributors to write content in some type of “dev” environment and then push the content over to your live site. Correct?

    Well, I’d first ask why? They are contributors and this is exactly what WordPress does already. You have publish content in phases such as “draft”. And if you’re looking for something more robust, do a google search for something like “wordpress publishing workflow” which will give you some ideas of plugins to use to control the publishing – meaning, a contribute writes an article and sets it up as “review”, then the admin or chief editor reviews and approves it for publishing.

    Using content workflow or just the built in functionality of WordPress is probably what you’re looking for and will be easy for your users.

    example solutions only
    http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-improve-your-editorial-workflow-in-multi-author-wordpress-blogs/
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/oasis-workflow/

    How you described going from development to production is mainly used for development work such as making theme changes or adding functionality to your site. In which case this would be done by a developer and not a content contributor.

    Does that help?

    Thread Starter galder56

    (@galder56)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Back from Vacation sorry for the delay and yes it does help. Thanks so much for your reply. I have been trying to learn all the ins and outs to set up an environment that will work for our internal users. Not familiar with using the user permissions feature and setting up for blogs has made this challenging. So far I have only used WP for static content.

    I have been through the forums and doing training videos from lynda.com, which have been helpful. But getting information from forum members has been great.

    Cheers.

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