Bluehost Staging Area – How to Sync Content

  • Hi,

    I recently created a staging website via Bluehost in order to trial a new theme.

    This was a few months ago and so my live site has been updated with new blog posts. I would like to sync this new content to the staging website so I can see a more up-to-date view of what the new theme design would look like. Is this possible? I am really struggling with Bluehost support who do not seem to understand my query.

    My next question is: when I eventually decide to deploy the new theme, how can I do this without overwriting all the new content that has been uploaded since I created the staging website?

    Is there a way to migrate the theme/design to the production site and keep the content on the production site unchanged?

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not a Developing with WordPress topic
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  • on the live site with the posts…

    Dashboard –> Tools –> export to export the posts and their media files.

    On the staging site…

    Dashboard –> Tools –> Import to bring in the content.

    You’ll probably need to install the proper plugins for Import/Export but that is all straight forward.

    On the staging site create a child theme if you make a bunch of coding changes to the theme. You’ll then just copy over the theme and the child theme from the staging site to the production site.

    Easy tasks.

    If you use the customizer on the staging site then you’ll need to duplicate those settings and copy over any CSS changes you’ve made.

    Also, you can install the new theme on the production site and use this plugin to allow a temporary switch to the new plugin that only you can see as the admin. That’s a great way to double-check your work before going live…

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/health-check/

    We are here to help if you need us.

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