lmnop

Thanks. The page seems to load very quickly once QM is disabled.

Unfortunately I don’t know enough about WordPress underlying structure to be able to figure out what’s going on myself, as of yet.

I’m a grumpy old PERL hacker.

Right. Thanks for that. I’m a bit aghast that WordPress spreads the site’s hostname all through the DB. That should be located in one place only, then referenced from elsewhere!

The catch with updating the localhost file is OSX pretty much ignores it, which you have to overcome by running dnsmasq.

But from what you’ve said, running a duplicate host structure sounds like it’s the only way to do this that doesn’t involve copious quantities of arseing around, thanks to the DB structure.

My dev will have to remember that her machine is always referencing her local version of wordpress and she’ll have to get on a different machine to access the production system.

Thanks for your input.

I’ll set it up so that a script does a SQL replication and then rsync’s the file system changes.