QA/Staging envirnoment for wordpress sites
You can use dev.example.com, so that you dont have to move contents all the time. you can make it password and ip protected if you want
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how to move particular functionality to staging server
how to move particular functionality to staging server
Migrating site from stage to production server without particular dev. plugins?
Well, I will try to answer my question myself. From what I’ve learnt there is no easy and gentle ways to exclude plugins on the fly. Each plugin,if you lucky, has uninstall.php witch executed upon when you click button “delete”. So if you harshly remove plugin it will leave traces in databases. Even if you … Read more
Creating WordPress staging environment software
I’ll offer a couple alternatives to @jgraup but his suggestions are all good ones. I also must note that I use macOS so some of the particulars of these suggestions won’t work on a PC but there should be equivalents. If my client(s) already have a site up using maindomain.com, I will usually set up … Read more
Locked out when attempting a migratoin
Copy the keys and salts from the production site? Try updating the password with WP-CLI?
How to query a staging database?
How to query a staging database?
Creating a staging area for WordPress.com site
If your friend has a wordpess.com business account which im guessing she has if she is using woocommerce you can always go down the plugin route. if you want to move to a stage variant you could possibly use WP Staging plugin which will give you a copy of the site to play with if … Read more
One-way DB Migration Workflow
I’d like to understand how commonly a 3rd party installed/activated plugins will make (structural) DB changes? All the time for non bug fix releases. No matter what the plugin does, there are very few features that do not require some settings. One way around this is to minimize the use of plugins. The other way … Read more
Image paths wrong after migrating with wp-migrate-db-pro media files add-on
I recommend using Search & Replace DB, a free tool by Interconnect, to replace any instances of the host name in the database. It will handle setting the serialized data correctly for you. First make sure that your wp-config is for the right database. You need to go into your new database and change the … Read more
Admin Custom Login loses settings on Code and Data migration
Most plugins store their settings in the database. So whenever you push code from one site to another, you need to at least push the plugin-specific data along with your files. You could hire a developer to determine where the plugin is storing data, or if you’re comfortable using phpMyAdmin, you can use that and … Read more