I have the Duplicator Pro plugin. In the past it was fairly easy to use. I have a wordpress site on a server, I'm trying to bring it down/migrate it down into a local sandbox. I have my local wordpress instance setup with Docker. Spinning it up initially with Docker was very easy and was tired of the clunky MAMP/WAMP tools. However migrating the site down while using Docker locally has been a challenge. With the Duplicator pro plugin the …
I bought a WordPress website through Flippa and I need to set up a development area that will let me test changes and updates before I put them on the live site. I am brand new to this so I want to make sure I don't break the existing site. I have set up a raspberry pi 4 with a LAMP setup. The Linux is Buster with Apache2, MariaDB, and PHP 7.3. I finally figured out how to attach the …
I have a live WordPress site with a coming soon page template currently active. How can I develop the website on a sandbox and then upload all changes to the live site? The sandbox has to be on the same live server, not through local development.
I want to test some plugins on my Wordpress site. However, I do not want to mess anything up. Is there a way to duplicate my Wordpress site to a new directory so that I can test plugins there before I push them to the main site?
I'm trying to get a text-based navigation menu for the footer of my site. I'm using the wp_nav_menu() parameters as directed by Codex. He're a snippet of code (in footer.php): <div id="footer"> <?php wp_nav_menu(array('depth'=>1, 'after'=>'<span class="sep">|</span>')); ?><br /> <div id="address"> <p>...</p> </div> <div id="contactInfo"> <p>...</p> <p>...</p> </div> </div><!-- #footer --> So, my goal is to make the menu look like Home | About | MorePages with only the root-level pages included. The problem: The after parameter is ignored! If I …
I'm running several Wordpress installs on my desktop machine using XAMPP. I would like to move them to my laptop as well. Can I simply copy the htdocs, mysql and phpMyAdmin directories to the laptop, replacing the ones from the new install? What if I copied everything in the directory structure under XAMPP? Will this work, or will everything go gruesomely wrong? If so, what is the right way? UPDATE - Tried copying the desktop files to the laptop. A …