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Creating multiple environments - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress: Workflows
Creating multiple environments
- [Instructor] With bigger projects, it's important to have more than one environment for development. In the child theme workflow, we looked at having a local environment and a live environment. But when you're developing for more than just yourself, or you're developing a bigger scale project, you should have one to two more environments, a staging server, and the dev server. Let's take a look at each. Your live environment is the public facing site, and your local environment is where you can work on your own code and test it before pushing it to a server. But where do you push it? That's where the other two servers come in. Every client project should have a staging site. This is a private duplicate of the live server, all of the content, files, and code will be synced between this and the live site. When you push new code that is ready for the client to review and test, it should also be sent to the staging site.…
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Building custom sites with Wordpress1m 12s
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Defining roles and responsibilities2m 2s
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Creating multiple environments2m 56s
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Publishing content to the staging server1m 37s
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Setting up a local dev environment1m 30s
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Syncing content between environments1m 39s
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Using version control1m 42s
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An example theme development workflow with Git2m 44s
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Testing the site1m 30s
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Taking the site live1m 34s
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Wrapping up1m 10s
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