Where to develop WP site

  • Hi,

    I’ve built a few WP sites already so have some experience. But up til now these have been brand new projects which involved setting up new hosting account and domain name.

    The site I’ve almost completed has been developed within my own personal account and now I have to transfer it to my clients existing account (they already have a basic WP site online).

    I know, I know. I realise I’ve made a lot of unnecessary work for myself. Doh! But you live and learn.

    So my question is: in this situation, when you’re developing a new WP site but it’s going to go over an existing WP site – what’s the best way to do it. Because the current site has to stay live until the new one is complete.

    1. Do I develop it within a subdirectory of the my clients hosting account and transfer it to the root when complete?

    OR

    2. Develop it locally and transfer it online to the final hosting package when complete (but how would my client be able to review it as it’s developed)?

    What’s the most efficient way to work please.

    Thanks!!

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  • 1. Do I develop it within a subdirectory of the my clients hosting account and transfer it to the root when complete?

    That is what you should do.

    I agree. You could do it both ways but only if your host provides a temp URL to build your site like mine does. Then your client would be able to see it before it went live to make any changes. When it is ready to go live, you just point it to the root. You could also just create a subdomain to point it to the current site just in case something goes wrong and you need to put the other site back up to fix any bugs.

    Thread Starter josoap

    (@josoap)

    Many thanks for your info.

    Just one last question though. When I develop a site within a sub directory, when I move it to the root, will all the links to related files be maintained?

    Are they relative rather than absolute paths?

    Thanks again.

    You would still develop the site under the same domain name then just add the temp URL as a subdomain and point it to the main site. In that case, it would automatically point to the root. You can ask your web host to help with that configuration of that’s the route you want to take. I work for Cytanium.com and help people do it that way all the time and have my own WP site setup that way but it will all depend on what your host allows.

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