Merge or Replace Database from Staging Site?
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Considering on using this plugin, I have not found clear documentation on whether when you publish from staging to production if it does a database merge or replace?
The main site I have has users posting content to the site on an ongoing basis. I would like to be able to create a staging site, make and test changes, then merge the changes into the production site, which has been getting continuous updates, not reflected in the staging site.
Does WP staging replace or merge database files in a way that supports this use case?
Thx
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Hi,
it only supports overwriting of the database tables, no merging.
So before pushing the staging site to live, you will need to export and import new data from the production site to the live site.When it comes to WordPress internal database structure, it turned out that merging is too error-prone and leads to thousands (or millions) of things that can go wrong.
There are 1-2 other plugins that claim to support database merging and while they might work for the majority of data, they usually all fail on edge cases or essential things like keeping the WooCommerce shop order IDs after a merge.
So we decided against merging.
Please let me know if you need more information.
Cheers
René
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