Updating a site locally and maintaining the comments

  • Because I am travelling and often do not have internet access, I would like to work on my website locally and then migrate the database and site contents over to my online host via FTP.

    The problem is that in all the migration solutions I have seen, the comments get replaced on each update. This means that any comments that were entered onto my website in between the updates would be lost.

    Is there any way of working locally and preserving the comments? If so what is the best work flow to manage this? I imagine the best way would be to export a database that included everything other than the comments, is this possible?

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    1. You can backup your current Website + Database and host it locally on your Computer using XAMP
    2. When you are ready to make the Content live to the real website. Just goto
      post you want to make it live. On the editor, click on the “Text” and Copy everything to your live site and also enter your title
    3. I guess that’s it.
    Thread Starter allankey

    (@allankey)

    Thanks for your reply, I know how to export from my computer, I was just wondering if there was an easy way of exporting comments from your live site onto the site I am developing offline without rewriting all of the posts and the comments. For example if I was to export from my live site, I would lose the work I had been developing offline because the posts and pages would be overwritten along with the comments. From what you are saying I guess this is not possible. The only other option would be to manage the comments using a third party service such disqus, something I am reluctant to do.

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