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Amy Troppe
2,177 PointsEditing a Wordpress site on a live server
I have watched a few of the Wordpress classes by Zac Gordon , and wanted to know more about what it means to work off of a live server. I usually develop sites locally and then push them to a server via github and heroku. Once the site is live, and I make edits, I don't push the changes to the live site until my edits are complete (so as not to "break" the site). The method that is often presented in the Wordpress classes is to install WP and then use an ftp client, which seems like it automatically pushes your edits to the live site every time you save a change. My question is, if using this method, how would you avoid breaking a site that is already in use, as you make changes to it?
2 Answers
Daniel Johnson
104,132 PointsI work locally as well and test everything before pushing any changes to a live server. Making changes on a live server without testing them is a recipe for disaster.
He's probably just doing it that way for demonstration purposes. The way you're already doing it is the preferred method.
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest TeacherFTPing files up is an acceptable approach for beginners. The approach you take is the better approach.
We have a course coming called Modern WordPress Workflow that will get into Git and staging environments etc, which is a much better approach.
Most of our courses that use FTP are for launching a site not necessarily doing ongoing updates.
Daniel Johnson
104,132 PointsI think you need to be more clear about it, especially at the beginner level.