Migrating new theme from development to live site

  • wrip

    (@wrip)


    7 years ago

    I’m currently working on a new theme on a development site, which is an exact copy of the live site. The live site is quite active. So while I’m working on the development site, the live site keeps changing everyday. For example, new WooCommerce orders are added everyday, new pages and posts are added every few days. There are some custom features on the site and some pages/posts also need updating as per the new theme. So by the time I finished with the new theme, I wouldn’t be able to simply migrate the database from the dev to the live site as it would have become outdated. So what would be the correct and efficient way to migrate the theme to the live site?

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  • pattyok

    (@pattyok)

    You will first need to update your theme files in the live environment. Connect via FTP and push your updated theme files to the live server.

    To make changes to the pages you can do them manually or if the changes are isolated to a specific post type you can export those posts from your local environment and import on the new environment.

    Since you havent done this before it might be a good idea to do a practice run. Make a copy of the live site, bring it down locally and then update that site with your theme files.

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