Title: Switching between Development & Production Website
Last modified: January 27, 2021

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# Switching between Development & Production Website

 *  [emsca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emsca/)
 * (@emsca)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-between-development-production-website/)
 * Hello team WordPress!
 * Today I am coming up with a query which is certainly may not discussed here before.
 * I have an E-commerce website **[http://www.metalliccurves.com](http://www.metalliccurves.com)**.
   
   Before developing my E-commerce website, I have created a sub-domain **dev.metalliccurves.
   com** and starts developing everything in this sub-domain.
 * Now the website is developed enough to go live and I decided to migrate from **
   dev.metalliccurves.com** to live domain here **[http://www.metalliccurves.com](http://www.metalliccurves.com)**.
   So I migrated the website (both database & files) using **Duplicator Plugin**(**
   Note:** I am using different databases for both live and development website).
   Now everything is working properly & that’s fine.
 * **What’s my concern is:**
 * I still wants to further develop my website, And for this again I decided to 
   switch to development mode (i.e. dev.metalliccurves.com), Since it’s not a good
   practice to make changes to the live website directly. RIGHT? Now let’s suppose
   I make some changes in the development site like added some plugins, pages & 
   posts.
 * During this time of development, there is also lot of action occurs to the live
   website like New Customer Registered, New Products Orders, etc. **(Hence, effecting
   the production/live website database)**.
 * Now you can observe that my both development & production databases are totally
   far different from each other. **Now the question is how should I migrate from
   development to live mode?** As far as file content is concern, It can be easily
   migrate to live from development but what about my both development & production
   databases?
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by [emsca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emsca/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fswitching-between-development-production-website%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [emsca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emsca/)
 * (@emsca)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-between-development-production-website/#post-13978505)
 * Hello Team WordPress! Please kindly move my question to appropriate **Forum Topic**.
   
   THANK YOU!

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