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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to take over as administer of a site containing WordPresscubecolour – Fantastic! I will indeed look into that. The information is much appreciated.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to take over as administer of a site containing WordPressI use dreamweaver (although I know a lot of people despise me fore it). If I set up a copy of the site in dreamweaver, and link to the remote server (the one the live site uses) as a testing server, are you saying that should work?
Of course this is assuming I won’t be making any changes or inserts to the database; Just using the server to run the copy from, to test any changes.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to take over as administer of a site containing WordPressThe changes I can make fine. It’s figuring out how to make a development version since it contains WordPress.
What I have read about duplicating a WordPress site on my localhost or otherwise says I have to backup the database, and then reinstall it. Then there’s all the changes to the second wp-admin file so the live site isn’t the one being administrated by it.
To make matters worse, because the WordPress is only one page in this site, I wonder how I would do these steps and maintain its integrity within the rest of the site. Last thing I want is to mess up the live site.
I know that if WordPress wasn’t part of the site, I would just make a copy of the site’s database, and files, and place them in my localhost. Should it not be any more difficult with WordPress being part of the equation?
I really do appreciate all your help.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to take over as administer of a site containing WordPressI should first state that many of the changes being asked of me are to the non-WordPress portion of the site, and involve changes to the HTML and CSS, and possibly PHP. Thus I really don’t want to make them to the live site in case they don’t turn out as I would like.
Seeing as WordPress is part of the site however, it makes copying the files and database more difficult.
If I’m not making any changes to the database, then wouldn’t that prevent any changes to the content of the live site?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to take over as administer of a site containing WordPressesmi, thank you.
In regards to the more intrusive link and text changes that you recommend I make on the remote server:
How do you usually go about doing this? I don’t want to make changes to a live site, thus potentially (and probably) causing errors on the page while ironing out the kinks.
I have noticed a second domain folder next to the primary domain folder, with the prefix of
dev. So for example, if the primary domain ismysite.com, then this second folder and domain isdev.mysite.com.
I have seen this in regards tomfor mobile sites, so I’m wondering if this is for use as a development copy of the site? Have you ever seen this before?I’m wondering if it would be possible to make a copy of all the site files to this
devdomain folder, and seeing as it is in the same parent directory of the primary domain folder, I’m thinking it could access the database just as the live site would.
Thus I could make any changes I want on this development copy (which is on the remote server), freeing me from both having to make a copy of everything on my local host, as well as attempting changes on the live version of the site until I am sure they are what the customer desires.What do you think of this idea? Possible?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to take over as administer of a site containing WordPressI have been given a list of changes to make. Things like cosmetic changes, additional media (images etc), changes in hyperlinking, etc. In fact, a lot of it will be on the non-WordPress part of the site. But I’m expecting this account will be asking changes in the future, many of them might be more intensive.
For some of these things, I am confident that if I changed the live version, the change would turn out as expected. Other things however, I know I am going to want to test the results before committing them.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to take over as administer of a site containing WordPressesmi – Then how would you make changes to a live website containing WordPress?
As I did not create the website, I need the ability to familiarize myself with it. And whatever changes I make need to be approved by the owner before they are committed.
How about having a development copy of the site, with the domain suffix dev? Would I make a copy of the site files with it still linking to the same database?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Questions Concerning Taking Over a WordPress SiteThanks for the reply McJoost.
Are you saying that the ability to export the site is found in wp-admin, under the tools menu? Under tools there is only one thing, called “Press-This” which I’m guessing is not what I’m looking for…
Where would the other users be visible? There is nothing on wp-admin that says anything about users. I’m guessing, between this, and the previous paragraph, that I am not signed in as the admin?