I’m redesigning a WordPress website running WooCommerce that gets new orders every week. Before starting development, I made a copy of the live site and have been making changes in a staging environment.

The theme, custom fields, some products, and other WordPress/WooCommerce settings have been heavily modified in staging. The problem is that while I have been developing the new site, the live site continued receiving orders, users, and some product updates.

What is the best approach for merging these sites? If I push my staging live, I’m concerned I’ll lose all of my recent order/user history. Is it possible to launch the new site and then re-import only the WooCommerce data (sales, users, refunds, etc.)?

Thank you for your time.

At this point the only “real” way of doing it is manually. It sucks big time. I know, I’ve had to do it a few times.

I know that there’s a service called VersionPress that’s in beta, so isn’t recommended for production, and has a lot more complicated set up then just installing a plugin. That’s about the only thing that’s even close to helping out with this sort of situation.

I know in WordPress I can export/import specific content. Which would be easiest?

Screenshot of what I mean here: https://imgur.com/y2NqWJr