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How to handle new content locally

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How to handle new content locally

- [Instructor] As you create your child theme or make any major changes to your website, you might be tempted to create new content on your newly minted local environment. After all, you now have an area where only you can see the changes you make. But that's not necessarily a great idea. See it's a lot easier to bring down content to your local machine than it is to push content to a live site. That's because you're the only person making changes to that local environment, but on a live site you'll have visitors, people who are viewing, commenting on, and interacting with your content. If you're pushing content from your local environment to your live site, you'll need to keep that in mind. On top of that, if you've added images or other assets, you'll need to make sure you also upload those so that your live content doesn't break. Instead, you should create that content on your live site and then pull it down using…

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