Arvind

Hello Steve,

I personally also don’t find hosts file more comfortable than the two other options .. temp url or sub-domain.

I have heard that “using a subdomain to build a wordpress site, while keeping the main site intact is a much better option than using a temporary url. The reason for which temporary urls are not considered a best practice in WordPress site creation, is because often the temporary url remains hard-coded in the database. So, may be when you replace the temporary url with the actual domain you wish to use for the site – it is highly likely for many instances not to be showing. Most often these are images, which are still working with the temporary url. To address this issue and have it fixed, you would need to do a Search and Replace operation in all database tables of your site. This of course, overcomplicates the entire process as sometimes the url are not fully replaced correctly, even after manual adjustments.”

What do you think about this Steve? Is this true? Or are there any cons in the sub-domain method as well?

Hello Jesse,

Thanks for the link but I totally don’t know anything about coding and hence can’t do this what you have suggested. Also the code changing solution you advised above is quite risky as changing the code may lead to any malfunction now or at some later stage.

This is something which is required to be done not by me as a user, but by Automattic which developed the Woocommerce plugin and also the Storefront theme.

Now the situation is that I am in the middle of adding products on my website and stuck up due to this pricing problem.

In view of this, please advise the best and safest solution.

Kind regards,
Arvind