Comments on: Creating a Staging WordPress Blog for Testing

By: justdoproperty

justdoproperty — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:10:25 +0000

Oh also not only is this great for creating a staging area but also if you need to move your wordpress installation from one server to a new server.

By: Alec Hanson

Alec Hanson — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:09:58 +0000

Thaya,

Fantastic. That has been such a great help as I had previously tried and got to the issue with the siteURL in the staging DB, thanks for the SQL code and for covering all this so clearly.

Very much appreciated.

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:00:02 +0000

Hi Will,

You're welcome! This is probably because there are some hardcoded links in either your theme or your posts. It's probably easy to fix the theme. For the posts, you will need to write a script to go through your posts table to replace http://YOUR-DOMAIN.com to http://staging.YOUR-DOMAIN.com. Hope that help!

By: Will

Will — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:10:18 +0000

Thaya- thanks a lot. I was able to follow your post to create a development site for my wordpress site. However, some of the pages redirect to the main page instead of the dev. site. I ran the – "update wp_options set option_value='http://staging.YOUR-DOMAIN.com' where option_name" while logged in to my new database. Is that the right thing to do?
I am clueless at this point.

By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:43:39 +0000

Dan, manually. You would want to double check merging every file so you don't overwrite anything by accident. I use Beyond Compare and compare the 2 dirs (awesome Windows app, the Linux drive is mounted via samba).

Have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_c... for a list of comparison tools.

By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:42:23 +0000

Have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_c... for a list of comparison tools.

By: Dan Moore

Dan Moore — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:36:06 +0000

This is great. But how do you move code/content/etc from staging to production?

By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:22:23 +0000

I finally got around to setting up a staging site and was looking for the list of things we discussed earlier. Excellent instructions, I will be using them to double check I got everything covered and automate the setup.