Title: Partial site sync
Last modified: March 27, 2018

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# Partial site sync

 *  [mbazian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbazian/)
 * (@mbazian)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-site-sync/)
 * I have to do a series of large changes to our district website. Basically, I 
   have to prepare over 100 pages that will not become live until 7/1. In the meantime,
   other content changes will happen.
 * I want to prepare those 100+ pages on a local development copy of the site (this
   way, they will not show up in any searches). When I am ready to go live, I would
   like to somehow transfer just those 100+ pages over to the development site and
   not affect any other pages in production.
 * I can’t just move my development copy to production because there will be modifications
   to production that development won’t have. I just want to move up those pages(
   and potentially overwrite existing pages if it isn’t a new page and just a modification.
 * Any thoughts?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-site-sync/#post-10117118)
 * Why not add the pages directly to the production site, setting them to future
   publish on 7/1? They will not be available to search engines until then. Attempting
   to request such pages ahead of time merely results in the 404 page unless WP 
   matches the request to a closely named page that is currently available. There
   would not even be any reason for a search bot to make such a request as there
   would not be any links to these pages to start with.
 *  Thread Starter [mbazian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbazian/)
 * (@mbazian)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-site-sync/#post-10117146)
 * What if I am changing an existing page but I don’t want that to publish until
   7/1? Can I do that too? (I am kind of new to the intricacies of WP)
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-site-sync/#post-10120695)
 * So the current page needs to remain as is and available, then these edits should
   automatically be applied at a certain date? That would take some additional setup
   beyond simply scheduling a future publish date.
 * If there is something in common with these various pages in how they need to 
   change, it’s probably possible to setup a template to show one thing up to some
   date, then show another after that. The template could toggle back and forth 
   between two setups. You can alter the content of the hidden content as needed,
   then it will be swapped back out after a specified date.
 * A plugin like Advanced Custom Fields can be used to define the fields. A custom
   template then gets the field content and displays it where needed within each
   page. Depending on the values of a couple date fields, one set of fields is displayed
   if not the other.
 * Going back to your original idea if custom fields are not viable, you can alter
   the next index field values within phpMyAdmin, in effect reserving a block of
   IDs into which you can import data without conflict. Let’s say the next ID in
   the production DB will be 1234. You want to insert 100 posts from staging. Set
   the next ID in production to be 1325. Set the next ID in staging to be 1234. 
   Add your pages to staging. When you export the same to production, they will 
   slide into that empty range of 1234-1324. You’ll also need to run a query that
   changes the status of the production posts you are replacing to inherit so they
   become backup copies that do not conflict with the imported posts.
 *  Thread Starter [mbazian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbazian/)
 * (@mbazian)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-site-sync/#post-10162354)
 * Thanks

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