Migrating Membership Site: What happens to the member accounts?

  • I need to work on a client’s website using a staging subdomain. I know how to migrate a website no problem, but this is my first time working with a membership website.

    What happens if someone signs up to their live site while I’m working on the staged site, and then I migrate the updated version of the site from the subdomain to the root domain?

    Is that signup lost since I had just “overridden” the site during migration?

    Additional Info

    • Theme: Betheme
    • Page Builder: Elementor Pro
    • Membership Plugin: MemberPress
    • This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic
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  • Short anser – Yes, if you copy the database from dev to live then any new users, content, etc will be “wiped out”.

    Depending on the pluin that’s used for the membership functionality there may be ways to iexport and import membership data when you’re ready to transfer the dev site to live, but you’d need to ask in he forum if which ever plugin you’re using for that.

    If that’s not possible, you’d better be good at database queries. ?? It is possible to copy across database tables and data that only pertain to memberships, but this can be problematic if you’re not 100% sure where everything is stored so it would be a last resort.

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