It’s really up to you. As a developer, I prefer working locally but if you do not develop but only add/remove/update themes and plugins, then a subdomain can be great. This way, you can freely break your website without disturbing anyone. Nowadays, lots of hosts providers are offering to create staging website in one click. … Read more
Use a Plugin First of all, your CODE looks fine. However, it’s better if you put that code in a small custom Plugin. That way, you can easily keep the plugin active on the development and staging sites and deactivate it on the main site. Changing the themes back and forth in the staging and … Read more
SOLVED: This is Apache2 on Debian: added the following to the ./sites-available/wp_container.conf virtual hosts file. Note that AllowOverride must be placed inside <Directory …> … Include conf-available/rewrite.conf <Directory /var/www/html/wp_container/> AllowOverride All </Directory> …
Is there any other ways to replicating changes on live from staging without pushing from git
To do this properly you really need to be using a proper git workflow and something like capistrano or ansible for deploying your changes to stage. The database imports and exports will need to handled separately.
Although there’s little chance that something went wrong, first of all make sure that you content is actually there. Just edit a post from your dashboard and make sure it looks like it should, Now, it looks like you have different themes on you live and staging sites, so it most probably is an issue … Read more
You can start by doing a full filesystem and database and put the same thing running on your staging environment under a different domain. Don’t do configuration under this installation or if you do bare in mind that changes will be lost since you want to periodically sync the production database with the staging one … Read more
Congrats on your first client. I’m glad you are looking around to make sure that you start off on the right foot. Like anything that you start in life, your experience will increase over time and the more you practice. However, we live in a digital age and popular open-source platforms such as WordPress have … Read more
I make sure the structure (page-title, categories, custom-post types) have the optimal headings and correct structure before migrating. Small changes such as a logo or minor graphics shouldn’t effect the quality of the website once moved to production.
Native WordPress import/export file is focused very tightly on content. It is not meant and cannot (or at least no one bothers to try bend it that way) accurately represent the state of whole site. The missing storage you are looking for is likely Options API, which is heavily used by core and third party … Read more