migrating data between dev & production

  • Resolved natharward

    (@natharward)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    In April I copied my Live WP site to a Dev environment so I could make a whole ton of changes with a new membership portal. I’m getting ready to go live with that (taking the Dev version of the site, and making that live, over-writing everything in the Live instance).

    While I’ve been doing this, we’ve made about 1 pretty link a week because business keeps going. I’m looking around the plugin folder for file(s) where all the links and data are stored so I can copy that from the Live site and put it on the Dev before the migration. Want to save the links, create dates and click data (seems better to me than manually re-creating all the prettylinks on the dev site). What am I looking for?

    No joke, I already copied every folder & file from wp-content/plugins/pretty-link as they are on the Live site and uploaded them to the Dev, overwriting what was on dev. But my list of links in Dev is the same.

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  • Plugin Author cartpauj

    (@cartpauj)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    The data, links, and settings are stored in the WordPress database. When WordPress does plugin updates, it deletes the plugin folder and copies the new files over afterwards. So storing data in the plugin folder would be a no-no.

    What you’d have to do is move the prli_* database tables over.

    Thread Starter natharward

    (@natharward)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hey cartpauj, thanks for the info. That action is over my head, but I’ve asked the sysadmins who work on the site with me to have a look. Will confirm that we figure it out.

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