allow previews outside wordpress folder (Outsourcing WP previews)

The cause of this problem is the wordpress checking for his cookies – and cookies are different for each folder. So the way of fixing can be temporarily save WP cookies too session and then hardcode them after redirect before the WP load. Solved thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21542795/wordpress-allow-previews-outside-wordpress-folder

Disabling “View” mentions from backend?

Instead of disabling it, you’d be better off by hiding it using a bit of CSS trickery. Try this and let me know if it works: add_action(‘admin_head’, ‘hide_quick_view’); function hide_quick_view() { echo ‘<style> span.view {display: none !important; visibility: hidden !important; opacity: 0 !important;} </style>’; } This should be placed in your functions.php file.

How to share posts (and plugins) between existing site and new, separate dev/test installation?

There are tools available for simplifying the synchronization of databases between multiple WP installations, such as WP Sync DB. As @jdm2112 mentioned, using a copy of the database—versus attempting to use the same database—reduces the risk of development work interfering with the production environment. However, simply making a copy of one site’s WP database is … Read more