Changing Theme on Live Site

  • Travis Poole

    (@poolet08)


    4 years, 4 months ago

    Good Morning,

    We have a live WordPress Site with Active Subscriptions and Content. Our theme is roughly 10 years old and its time for an update. We have a new theme but it will require new plugins as it uses the new block building functions and so forth that WordPress has.

    We do have a Staging plugin (WP-Staging) but I was curious as to what is the appropriate procedure for changing/updating a theme on a live site? Would you use the staging site and then push the changes to the live site? Would that interfere with your database? Our subscription data is handled in the database so we wouldn’t won’t to overwrite it.

    Would just creating a new WordPress installing and staging the theme and importing it in be better?

    Thanks!

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • corrinarusso

    (@corrinarusso)

    4 years, 4 months ago

    I dunno what a “staging plugin” does – sounds risky tho.

    Who do you host your site with?

    For me I:
    – backup the current site using something like this:
    https://en-ca.ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/
    – create a local installation of WordPress and test the migration file that it restores properly
    – login to host and create a subdomain
    – install WordPress on my subdomain
    – use the AIOM plugin again to duplicate the site
    – install a password plugin:
    https://en-ca.ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/password-protected/
    – make all my changes on the staging site
    – once I’m good to go, use the AIOM plugin again to download the staging site and over-write the prod site

    Thread Starter Travis Poole

    (@poolet08)

    4 years, 4 months ago

    This seems a bit more complex than it should be. We self host our own WordPress Site.

    corrinarusso

    (@corrinarusso)

    4 years, 4 months ago

    Up to you and what you’re comfortable with.
    It’s not complex in any way really. Should take maybe 30 minutes.

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