Revamping how importing changes works
After you have made changes to your staging site, WP Stagecoach lets you import those changes back to your live site.
I released a new alpha version today, and in this version I rewrote how the WP Stagecoach plugin handles importing changes from the staging site into the live site. Here are the major changes:
- The importation is now broken up into steps so it will work on slower hosts without timing out
- All of your changed files are bundled in a single tar file so all the changes happen at once
- It keeps track of your changed files, and allows you to revert them if things aren’t perfect
- It makes a dump of the database just before importing changes so you can restore that if things aren’t perfect
- It cleans up nicely after itself!
This was a big rewrite from how things were imported before with an eye to making sure you can easily get back to how things were before if you don’t like how things are afterwards.
