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  • April 26, 2016 at 10:49 am #900535
    briantbecker
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    I have an active live site that adds members daily, new posts, etc. I’d like to develop this new theme X over the course of the next couple of weeks then make it live. I’ve read several threads on how to migrate a site, but I don’t want to migrate my new theme.

    I want to be able to have the theme looking good on my development server, then move the THEME and related data for that theme over to my live server. Is this possible?

    After installing the them on the production/live server, what database tables do I move and do I just copy the HTML portion of the pages I’ve laid out (like the new home page) to get the live server working properly.

    April 26, 2016 at 11:00 am #900552
    briantbecker
    Participant

    One further note. The live server runs on WPEngine. My thought is the following:

    1) Develop on localhost server – over several weeks
    2) Create WPEngine staging server
    3) Put site in semi-maintenance mode (so no new members, posts, ect) – but still public viewable.
    4) Get staging server looking like my internal server – 1 day
    5) Copy from staging server to live server

    April 27, 2016 at 4:40 am #901761
    Paul R
    Moderator

    Hi,

    Thanks for writing in!

    Your process looks good but please take note of the following when migrating from local server to staging server.

    https://community.theme.co/kb/cornerstone-migration/

    Thanks

    April 27, 2016 at 10:04 am #902354
    briantbecker
    Participant

    I think I’m not using the correct terminology for you to understand my dilemma. I cannot do the migrate because my database on my server is LIVE so if I migrate the database when I move to the staging server (from my local host) then I will overwrite all the posts I currently have in place.

    I need to know what I need to move in order to ONLY copy over the “X Theme” related information…where is all of that stored?

    April 27, 2016 at 10:10 am #902373
    Rubin
    Keymaster

    Hey There,

    Connect via ftp to your web server and copy the /wp-content/ folder to your local environment. This will move all the data required. After doing that exporting the Customizer settings and importing them locally will be the last step.

    April 27, 2016 at 12:49 pm #902687
    briantbecker
    Participant

    I’ve been trying to find a place to export the customizer settings?

    April 28, 2016 at 12:19 am #903540
    Friech
    Moderator

    Hi There,

    It is on the admin dashboard under the Addons panel.


    screenshot

    Thanks.

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