Developing with Wordpress

1kiwi

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Dear Workpress Gurus,

Thinking about starting up a simple wordpress blog after reading this guide. It suggests that you simple download wordpress, upload to your hosting company and configure the DB. I guess my question is, do you normally run a local version of wordpress and then somehow propagate the changes to the live site via FTP?
 
Do you mean when your customising the site or when your adding new content?

When your adding a new blog post you go to wwww.yoursite.co.uk/wp-admin to log in and then write out your post adding images etc. You can also customise your sites theme and settings here.

If you want to tinker with the code manualy then you need to DL a few of your wordpress installs files and take a copy of your sites html by right clicking>page source.

Hope this is of help mate :)
 
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As above. I wouldn't mess with the core of the site code on the live site.

There's features to tweak design and 'preview' before submitting in there. Same for posts etc. It's built to be managed online. So unless your planning on rewiring the guts. You don't have to work an offline version.
 
I have both a duplicate site on my live server and my personal local dev server. I do all my layout and testing on my dev server and then do a data transfer to the live. This also leaves me with data back up that I sync with the live.

Here is a good article all about securing your Wordpress site.
 
djkav said:
I have both a duplicate site on my live server and my personal local dev server. I do all my layout and testing on my dev server and then do a data transfer to the live. This also leaves me with data back up that I sync with the live.

Here is a good article all about securing your Wordpress site.
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I take a regular backup from the live site with the export command, and then import that into the dev site. Have a backup in 2 locations then, and can work on the layout without killing the main site design wise.
 
beh* said:
Dear Workpress Gurus,

Thinking about starting up a simple wordpress blog after reading this guide. It suggests that you simple download wordpress, upload to your hosting company and configure the DB. I guess my question is, do you normally run a local version of wordpress and then somehow propagate the changes to the live site via FTP?
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No I do all the mods online.

Our hosting is with
Vidahost, and they have automatic WP installers via Installatron or Fantastico. Saves loads of time.

They might even deploy it for you to get you going, if asked.

Then you can pick a theme from the WP admin panel, and make some mods on the FTP.

Very easy.
 
blade007 said:
No I do all the mods online.

Our hosting is with
Vidahost, and they have automatic WP installers via Installatron or Fantastico. Saves loads of time.

They might even deploy it for you to get you going, if asked.

Then you can pick a theme from the WP admin panel, and make some mods on the FTP.

Very easy.
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I don't do this as the caching plugins I employ slow down posting and re-editing files considerably. The local dev server has no caching plugins and speeds up development hugely as I don't have to worry about problems that potential clients may see etc. That's just my method, your mileage may vary, but with upwards of 10k visits a month over my wordpress sites it's something I don't fancy having to sort out if a mod plays havoc. Also, having a dev server means I can try plugins securely without them casuing any problems before I deploy them on live sites
 
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