I’m redesigning a site of massive size using the Newspaper theme. The site in question is hosted on official wordpress.com.
I was never able to get a true migration of the content into my own host for development; it was too big, the plugins/helpers only did a partial job. But I got enough to create a baseline for development work.
Once I’m finished with all of the tweaks, using TagDiv composer/page editing tools, etc…. is there any way I can export out those specific customizations, and import them into the officially hosted site?
Once I’m ready to go live with this re-design, I’m afraid I’m facing a logistical nightmare. Any process suggestions?
Hi,
What you can do is to use a plugin for migrate.
Another solution is to copy past the theme panel settings using the import export method -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/import-export-theme-settings/ and the pages and cloud template (you can copy manual from the staging on other website, this solution is usably used when you do not have many changes).
In case that you have major updates/edits on the staging, then the best solution will be to use a plugin to migrate the site. (there is also a manual method to migrate the website, you need to install the theme files on the new website and copy the database from staging).
Here is an article that can help you -> https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-move-wordpress-to-a-new-host-or-server-with-no-downtime/
Thank you!
I cannot use a plugin to migrate the site. The site is massive – almost a decade of data of a site with 100k readers and active commenting base – I’ve tried every plugin that claims to be able to migrate the site, and each one fails.
If I do anything in this variety, it would need to be specific to the theme itself, and not the content/posts/media/etc.
Question on the “Import/Export theme settings”.
If I make changes to something obvious, like one of the standalone CSS files, I’m assuming stuff like that exports/imports very clean.
What about specific detail changes that you use the TagDiv composer to create? Say, edits to the page template, specific CSS overrides on narrow elements? Filtering ID numbers and exclusions on the iteration of given components? Does that stuff export/import as well?
Hello,
The “Import/Export theme settings” will import only the settings that are made in the theme panel. The settings made with tagDiv Composer will not be imported.
If you made a page or a cloud template and you want to import it, then you can do it manually, by copying -> https://imgur.com/Wo4yp58 the code from the page/cloud template and past it on the new site in an empty page/cloud template.
An alternative is to copy the database, because all the theme settings, pages and cloud templates are stored there, unfortunately sit is not so simple like copying and pasting the content of a page/cloud template.
Thank you!
