Should I deactivate plugins before migrating from localhost to live host

  • Resolved BothHands

    (@bothhands)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    I’m developing my first WP site – doing so in an Xampp localhost environment, and experiencing an incredibly steep learning curve. I have various plugins installed, one of which is WordFence.

    In my experiments thus far with Duplicator Installer and MySQL databases in general I’ve run into MySQL problems related to the WordFence security plugin.

    I’m seeking a way to minimize complications and potential problems, so the obvious question is:
    Would it be helpful for me to DEACTIVATE all plugins in my localhost site prior to creating my Duplicator Installer and Archive? And then REACTIVATE all plugins in the published site after the upload is complete?

    Or would that actually be counterproductive? =o

    You guys probably don’t remember how confusing it all is when you’re new to WordPress…duh.

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  • Hey @bothhands,

    On new installs plugins typically account for about 10-15% of most problems. Typically after you have used the plugin several times you can get a sense of when to do this. But I would say on your first dozen installs it would be a good idea to deactivate them just to make sure the install is clean without any interference from the plugins.

    Hope that helps~

    Thread Starter BothHands

    (@bothhands)

    Thanks, Cory.

    Yes, that’s very helpful. I’ll follow your advice in my further “experiments.” =]

    This matter of deactivating plugins before migrating the site (all except Duplicator, ha) seems like another important concept deserving extra emphasis, especially valuable for we inexperienced users.

    Thanks for the helpful reply.

    Thanks for the feedback, we’ll take note!

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