[Support request] Push Staging to Live Site

[Deyson]

Hello and good day.

For the last few weeks, I have been working on re-creating my website from Elementor to GeneratePress.

My question is, what is the best way to push all my design changes to the live site? I have made several sales during that time and I want to keep all that data intact? Is there a way to migrate just the theme design work?

Thank you and have an amazing day! 😊

[Leo]

Hi there,

I thought the staging site service usually has a button that pushes everything live to you – worth checking with your hosting support.

If not a plugin like Duplicator would be the easiest method:
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

[Deyson]

Hello, Leo.

I do have a push everything to live. However, if I do that, I believe I will lose all my new customer’s info while I was building my updated new site design.

Please let me know what you think. 🤔
Thank you and have an amazing day! 😊

[David]

Speak to your host, they may/should be able to isolate parts of your database when pushing the staging site live.

[Deyson]

Thank you, David! I will do that! 😊

Also, David, do you do freelance work?

Thank you and have an amazing day! 😊

[David]

You’re welcome

I don’t do freelance at the moment. I don’t have the time 🙂

[Deyson]

I totally understand. 😊

Also, I spoke to my web host and partial database migration is out of the scope of the services they provide.
Do you have any other suggestions?

Thank you and have an amazing day! 😊

[David]

Thats a pity … its a pain. The only other suggestion is to prepare your changes, push the site to staging, and take the live site off line whilst you make those changes.

Otherwise you gonna need a developer who can handle selectively updating the database… which scares the pants off me lol

[Deyson]

Another idea I had was to export all my new Woocommerce customers and then re-import them when I push the staging to live site.

[David]

That is one method – you just have to be mindful of items in carts and especially orders raised.

[Deyson]

What do you mean by Orders Raised?

Thank you and have an amazing day! 😊

[David]

The database will contain any Orders your clients make, so they too will need to be migrated….

[Deyson]

Ok. So export new customers and new orders from the date I created the Staging site?

Thank you and have an amazing day! 😊

[David]

YEah.
Glad to be of help.

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