I recommend to work with fixtures on localhost and development environments. Fixtures definition from Symfony documentation: Fixtures are used to load a “fake” set of data into a database that can then be used for testing or to help give you some interesting data while you’re developing your application. To work with fixtures on WordPress … Read more
How to sync staging to production but keep plugin settings
Sync user meta data to a second database
Database synchronization between dev/staging and production How to: Easily Move a WordPress Install from Development to Production? Maintaining synced staging/production WP sites
Sketch/Concept To make requests to remote/external APIs, use the WP HTTP API. More in depth examples/details can be found in some of my answers here. Then simply add an admin page with add_submenu_page() or add_menu_page() or the related functions. Finally add a script via wp_register/enqueue_script() on the admin_enqueue_scripts-hook. There you fire an ajax (search archives) … Read more
The important step is to assign a unique ID to every item you get from the source. Hopefully the JSON feed already includes one, but otherwise you will have to somehow create one yourself based on the JSON content. Once you have the value, you store it as a meta value of the post being … Read more
You have basically tree ways. WP API (JSON) Feed (XML) XMLRPC API I think the first solution via WP JSON API should be your prioritized way. The WP API will implement inside the core of WordPress in the next releases. Currently you can use it via plugin. I think, this is the standard for the … Read more
The simplest way to create identical websites on different domains is to use the plugin Multiple Domain. This allows you to have a single WP install with one database serving two domains. Next step is to copy this DB to a Chinese server, where create a script to copy DB and files from the main … Read more
I think there are 2 solutions for you problem. The first is rely on P2P functions like each_connected (see this as example) and retrieve the connected ‘Person’ after running a taxonomy query for ‘Activities’. Maybe this solution can be easier, faster and straightforward. Second solution is what you says in your question: apply the taxonomy … Read more
ACF won’t load from a custom JSON location