[Resolved] Installing Premium on Staging before moving to live

[This Is Barry]

Hi,

I recently purchased the Premium theme.
I would like to set up a staging environment on my cloud provider to set up the theme in full and then migrate my changes to my live site.

Typically the way it’s offered in SiteGround is:
1) Create staging
2) protect URLs

What I plan:
1) Install Generate press
2) Upload the Premium .zip
3) Set up completely

After this SiteGround offers an option to copy over everything from Staging to Live via a button click.

My question is:
Does the .zip need to be different in these two environments?
Or the copy would be fine?

[Leo]

Hi there,

The same GP Premium file would be fine 🙂

Just make sure to re-enter your license key once you’ve moved to the live site.
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/updating-gp-premium/#finding-your-license-key

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[This Is Barry]

Thanks for the reply, just a quick follow up question – soon as I copy the staging live, the licence might not be valid because it’s copied over. Will this cause the live site to revert to the free theme defaults? Will I need to re-customize after reentering the licence?

Thanks in advance.

[Leo]

Will this cause the live site to revert to the free theme defaults? Will I need to re-customize after reentering the licence?

No – the license key is only for automatic updates. Otherwise you would get this error:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/updating-issues/#getting-an-unauthorized-message

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

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