Title: Using Development and Prodcution Servers
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Using Development and Prodcution Servers

 *  [josemalone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josemalone/)
 * (@josemalone)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-development-and-prodcution-servers/)
 * I’ve read the posts how to Move WordPress (WP), but this doesn’t seem to be my
   situation and I’m surprised I can’t find anything specific to this topic so hence
   the post.
 * Call me old school but I normally do development locally in a development environment
   then push changes to the production servers after testing for bugs. In past we’d
   have development, QA and then Production evironments. But, the WP way seems you
   just have one environment for everything and thats it.
 * Obviously, I’m not talking about actual posts, but more or less CSS updates, 
   Template modification, Plug-in develompment and other larger site wide changes
   that we’d like not to have public during development.
 * Any insight from someone that has this type of development strategy is greatly
   appreciated.

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-development-and-prodcution-servers/#post-1360340)
 * > I’m not talking about actual posts, but more or less CSS updates, Template 
   > modification, Plug-in develompment and other larger site wide changes that 
   > we’d like not to have public during development.
 * I do all my theme development on a dev environment. Once I have something I like
   I upload the theme directory to the production server. Same for plugins.
 * Simple as that! Am I misunderstanding the question though?
 * Don’t get too caught up with the content of the site — that’s all in the database,
   you don’t have to worry about it when you’re moving files around.
 *  Thread Starter [josemalone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josemalone/)
 * (@josemalone)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-development-and-prodcution-servers/#post-1360592)
 * Chris,
 * Thank you.
 * OK, I guess I was just assuming this was in the db as well. So even if I do the
   edits within WP Admin. I can copy the theme folder over. For plug-ins. Don’t 
   you have to re-install them? Or just copying over makes them active? Or, I guess
   I’d have to install the plugin on production and then copy over the edits?
 * Again, appreciate the insight.
 * Jose
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-development-and-prodcution-servers/#post-1360600)
 * As a proper developer aware of Dev / QA / Prod environments, surely you’d not
   be editing in a textbox on a web page?!? 😉
 * Plugins are like themes. If you have a plugin activated in prod and overwrite
   it with an updated version the plugin is still active, just now running the updated
   version.
 * Now, if the plugin **isn’t** active in prod and you’ve been testing it in Dev
   then you’ll have to be sure to not only copy the plugin filtes to prod but configure
   it there as well. Some plugins make it really easy to locate any associated db
   tables or records but it is usually easier/quicker to just activate the new plugin
   in prod and then visit the plugin’s config page (if applicable).
 * In other words, “it depends” 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [josemalone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josemalone/)
 * (@josemalone)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-development-and-prodcution-servers/#post-1360680)
 * Thanks Chris.
 * Guess I’ll just dive in. ;-0
 * Jose
 *  [brianscoop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianscoop/)
 * (@brianscoop)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-development-and-prodcution-servers/#post-1360837)
 * Chris,
 * Do you not use Subversion (or any other) revision control in the middle of all
   this? Are you not concerned with the ability to roll back?
 * Thanks,
    Brian

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