Re:Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again
by iso1210 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @09:10AM
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Indeed, I have 3 copies of my wordpress site.
The main one, where people update content.
Then there's a backup that gets auto restored every morning (with appropiate sed etc to change URLS), which is suitable for developing and testing any code changes
The third is one which is manually restored from the backup, and suitable for longer term experiments, how best to organise pages, etc.
Honestly though, there's a lot of talk about changes here without much talk of the most obvious class of changes that Wordpress is designed to support: adding content to your website or blog.
For all its faults it does make that very easy, and it's designed with the intent that you will do so by working directly on the live site (you can obviously preview and review content before making it live).
Changing layout and templates is trickier, likewise creating a new page layout, and that's where a staging or development site comes in handy.