Working on a site locally and online at the same time

  • Hello.

    I am in the final stages of my site and I have uploaded it onto a host. Now I need a way to work on my site that is online — offline. Let me clarify.
    A few years back I have came across a plugin or a How-to that show a way to make changes to a site then when I’m ready I can apply changes to my site with one click, maybe.
    I could have a copy of the site on my localhost then when I make changes I upload the WordPress installation and databases to my site, but it might cause a problem because my site has user submitting content and that content could get lost when I upload the new database.

    Is what I’m saying even possible?

    Thanks.

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    What sort of changes are you talking about ?

    Thread Starter Antonio144

    (@antonio144)

    Editing theme, adding forums (bbpress), groups (Buddypress), And other content that is not ready for the public.

    What are talking about is database synchronization between WordPress websites. I am not sure there is any easy-to-use solution for this.

    However, you could follow this procedure:
    1) You stop your online website with a “maintenance mode” plugin, so user stop submitting new content.
    2) You do your updates on your online website, but while in maintenance mode.
    3) You check everything is ok
    4) You remove the maintenance mode and you are back in business

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