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[ellsworth]

Hello All,

I am curious if anyone who uses X-Theme does so without cowboy coding. I’ve spent the last week trying out things like vagrant (with virtualbox) and frameworks like trellis to help with versioning wordpress. The aim being to create a development workflow wherein I am able to work on localhost during the day, and then push to staging and/or production at the end of the day. I am familiar with the idea that most of the changes I make with X are database changes (I’d plan to use a tool like WP Migrate DB Pro for syncing the database between the environments). And I realize that this doesn’t necessarily fall under the purview of X. However, I’m really would be curious if anyone could point me in the right direction.

Surely not everyone here is just cowboy coding their wordpress sites. I recognize that the proprietary nature of X and Cornerstone makes it very difficult (if not impossible) to use things like composer for package management, etc. But please, someone tell me what I am missing. Working for an entire day on a site with cornerstone live on the production server strikes me as insane. What am I missing. Ideally someone from X’s fantastic support team can point me in the right direction here.

Love the theme, hate the idea that use of it direct on production is the best way to use it. Thank you.

[Rad]

Hi there,

Thanks for posting.

We don’t recommend working directly on the production site. What we recommend is to use a development site, then jut push it live through migration plugins such as All in one migration plugin, or BlogVault.

If you’re on versioning, I’m not sure if it can be done automatically. But with same migration plugin, you can always download a backup copy (current version) before doing any further changes.

Thanks!

[ellsworth]

Okay thanks for the recommendations. Have you seen any workflows that are not plugin based. Say like, Wordmove or things like that. I’m just very surprised to hear that the plugin deploy methods are the only recommended ways.

[Rad]

Hi there,

We recommend the plugin since it’s safer and convenient regardless of hosting provider or system. Looks like you’re looking for system based versioning. Unfortunately, that something that I can’t help with. How about trying the Wordmove?

Thanks!

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