Switching from Icon Stack to Design Cloud Site

[chrisjdavies]

Hi, I’ve been using the Icon Stack for a couple of years now but I would like to redesign my website and use one of the Design Cloud template sites as the basis. How do I switch these over?

Is it best to do on a staging site first? If so can you please advise the best way to do this?

[ruenel]

Hello @chrisjdavies,

Thanks for writing in! Yes, we highly recommend that you use a staging site. The staging site is very useful because you can test drive the design cloud site demo and any X updates in the staging area, do the customizations and troubleshooting without disrupting your live site. Once everything is perfect, you can easily and flawlessly proceed with the update on the live site. To know how to create a staging area, please check out these articles:

• http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-staging-environment-for-a-wordpress-site/
• https://maintainn.com/2015/02/how-to-create-a-staging-site-for-wordpress/

Best Regards.