Redesigning a Site with a New Theme on a Staging Site

  • Pyra

    (@prwilliam)


    6 years ago

    My company has an internal wiki training site that I am working on redesigning. I’d like to change the theme, add a drag/drop builder plugin, and a couple other new plugins. However, on our current site, we have implemented training courses and a newsletter, which carry large amounts of data in the database. If I copy the whole site over to a staging site using the WP Staging plugin, will I be able to copy back the theme and new plugin data without over-writing existing data for the courses and newsletter plugins? What is the best way to go about doing this?

    Additionally, URLs will change and I want to make sure I can cleanly update those as well during the push live.

    Our developers aren’t being helpful and are basically trying to do nothing during this process so any tips are much appreciated. It’s going to be a very heavy redesign with the theme change.

    Thank you!

    • This topic was modified 6 years ago by Pyra.
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  • JNashHawkins

    (@jnashhawkins)

    I always recommend small, incremental thematic and feature improvements.

    Anything else just alienates the present users if overdone… of course you might want to rid yourself of the present user base. In that case, go for it!

    As to URLs? URLs to current content probably should not change else you’ll want small, incremental changes for a good reason… and those backed by 301 redirects to avoid orphaning any content or alienating the visitors.

    Plugins? If it ain’t broken then don’t fix it!

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