Merging a dev site with Production

  • dhommel18

    (@dhommel18)


    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hi everyone,

    I’m running into some complications regarding a site migration I am trying to perform. Basically there are 2 variations of the site currently; one that is in production (WP 4.4.2) and being normally updated with posts, articles, etc… The other site is a copy of it, however is sitting in a dev environment for update purposes (Primarily theme updates as we have a lot of custom styling); this is going to the latest WP version as well. The content between the two sites are NOT synchronized, making the dev site increasingly out of date. I’m trying to figure out the most efficient way to pull this off and will definitely value any input. I’m thinking of possibly live updating the production site with just the WP and plugins for now (after backing up) then possibly finding a way to import the theme changes into the production site after the issues are fixed on the dev site? Again any insight greatly appreciated

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  • Neil

    (@neilgilmour)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hiya,

    Great question! I’ve recently been dealing with this too. There are a few tools now which will merge the database if there have been changes on both production and development sites. I found mergebot.com and versionpress.net, and I’m sure there are others.

    The key thing to remember is that they should be running on the prod site before you copy to dev and start making changes. Otherwise it will have no idea what has changed…

    So this may or may not work out in your situation if there are already a lot of changes in either environment.

    Hope that helps 🙂

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