Right now the way we are currently using we have 3 enviroments. Development, Test, and Production. On the same server we have the 3 instances as separate sites/domains. So we have something like this. This would work best for multisite domaindev.com domaintest.com domain.com You need to have individual domains to be able to use the … Read more
I imported/exported between a single wordpress blog and a multisite wordpress without problems, many times. Personally on a multi-site wordpress I have a parent generic theme and each website has it’s own child theme with as few files as possible, mostly only html/css for custom post types. Security issues or big complicated options are most … Read more
if it is the “Featured Image” of your post, you can use: <?php // check if the post has a Post Thumbnail assigned to it. if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail(); } ?> check: the_post_thumbnail function else if you want to get the first image inside your post, you can use somthing like that: function … Read more
I think you have outlined a good broad approach, I will break it up into some sub-points for a more specific answer. I also think the important unspoken question here is: “Where do you draw the line between design and functionality?” Because generally speaking, site features, content features and functionality should be kept to plugins … Read more
Seems like a good list you have going… Just a few that come to mind: SCRIPT_DEBUG to false on live and true on staging. WP_CACHE to true on live and false on staging. ping_sites to empty on staging to disable ping services. default_pingback_flag to 0 on staging to not send outgoing pingbacks. Maybe install a … Read more
Based on your question, I am not exactly sure where your local build sits right now. This answer is assuming you are starting from scratch, but have a copy of a working wordpress website on a live web server, and working on a mac. You need to install a web server onto your local computer. … Read more
Short Answer Yes. Theoretically any site can be built on top of WordPress. Long Answer You are going to need a lot of modifications to the standard WordPress theme. But not to fret I have assembled a list of some of the things that you would need to do to get your feet wet. Add … Read more
I guess your folders are linked to different domains or subdomains. I usually use a domain and a subdomain (www.domain.com and dev.domain.com, for example) to let me work in the pre-production site (not indexed by search engines, this is quite important to avoid duplicated contents and SEO problems) before applying changes to the final one. … Read more
There are several plugins that will allow you to clone the database only, as well as the WordPress installation and media files. You will need to install a WAMP, LAMP or MAMP stack or XAMPP. Upon completion of your updates, you can migrate the site back to the host server.
Out of the box WordPress uses absolute URLs. This requires you to make database updates when moving sites from development to production or when changing the base URL. I’m not sure why this choice was made but there are many options when moving sites. You can use a tool like WP Migrate DB Pro or … Read more