Method to Copy Content (incl Images) from Dev to Live Site

  • Wondering if anyone has come up with any creative workarounds for reliably copying content which includes images from one site to another?

    We typically keep development copies of websites for testing updates, bug fixing, showing new content to clients for approval, etc. And I know we can do a ‘Copy All Blocks‘ on a page/post, then paste into the live site when ready to port any new or updated pages/posts over. But this won’t bring any images over with it, it will just point back to the image sources on the Dev site.

    Any way other than manually re-uploading and re-placing all images on the live site when copying the content over? We’ve sucked it up and done this up to now on most projects, keeping good notes for reference, but current project has a lot of posts, each with a lot of images, and each image with unique captions. This can’t be that uncommon of a task, is it?!?

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  • I used to use Backup Guard – now I use Duplicator – works great

    Thread Starter KennyLL

    (@kennyll)

    Thanks for the response. Does something like Duplicator work well for copying over a few specific posts or pages with all of their content?

    At first glance, it looks like a more full-fledged cloning or backup type of plugin. And a bit pricey if we wanted to use on many of our sites. When we do a full-on clone of an entire site, we generally use cPanel backup & restore functionality, which works well and is pretty simple. This is more for copying a few pages or posts and their content over…

    i’m pretty sure Duplicator is more of a full-blown “copy all” app. I was trying to do something similar (just copy pages) and never figured it out. If I remember correctly Updraft would work. Maybe JebBackup

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