Performing theme, plugin and core updates on your site can be intimidating and overwhelming, especially for older and more complex sites with many interconnected plugins – WooCommerce, I’m looking at you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The solution is simple: use a staging site – a private copy of your site where you can safely test updates and resolve problems before your users ever experience an issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll guide you across a number of ways to create a staging site depending on your specific needs, performing these updates, and then applying these updates to your main site. You’ll leave with a concrete plan for how to set up your own staging site, and will fear the update process far less! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Performing theme, plugin and core updates on your site can be intimidating and overwhelming, especially for older and more complex sites with many interconnected plugins – WooCommerce, I’m looking at you! The solution is simple: use a staging site – a private copy of your site where you can safely test updates and resolve problems … Continue reading Update Smart: Using a Staging Site!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11146216,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1565452200,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2yRVQ56","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[2607],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[144,1256260],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-2722","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-development","wcb_track-salle-principale"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paIveb-HU","session_date_time":{"date":"August 10, 2019","time":"3:50 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"2607","slug":"meagan-hanes","name":"Meagan Hanes","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speaker\/meagan-hanes\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3406,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/2722\/revisions\/3406"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/2607"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/meaganhanes"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}