What to install for testing/backup?

  • Hello there everyone.

    So I currently am in charge of my theatre co. website. I inherited an old WP site, and I’m ready to change it up, new theme, new color scheme, etc. BUT, we need to keep the site up while I work on a new one. (site by the way is https://www.counterproductionstheatre.com if you want to take a look)

    The current site is an old version of WP, and it’s the type where you log onto it online, make your changes that way.

    I haven’t updated to a new WP for fear of messing up the site.

    I would like to now try to take this site and put it into a new WP site.

    My question: how should I go about doing this? I believe that there is a WP program you can download onto your computer (mac tho?) is this a way to build a WP site on your computers HD and when ready FTP it up?

    What would be your best suggestion be for me to keep our current site online while I can experiment with a back up or whatnot?

    Let me know if this makes no sense ??

    Thank you all.

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  • i’m in the same boat, interested to hear the response.

    in my “wordpress for dummies” book, it says you don’t have to upload to root folder. you can put it in a subfolder for now and still look at it. create a folder called “blog” or whatever and then you could see your blog at https://www.whateveryourdomainis.com/blog. Then when you are ready to go live, put the files in your root folder. haven’t tried it yet. if i’m wrong someone please speak up!

    Thread Starter enigma2118

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    I was hoping for something like that. In this case I should be able to ftp onto my site. Copy everything that is in my site folder (i.e. copy my entire site) create a new folder (TEMP) paste/copy it all in there.

    Then hopefully I should have 2 INDEPENDENT sites. So if I log onto my REGULAR-SITE-WP-ADMIN and make changes it should NOT affect my BACKUP-SITE. And the same vice versa? I have no idea if this is true or not, hoping someone can confirm? ‘Cause there is NO way I am trying this without knowing what I could possible mess up ??

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