WordPress Staging Sites Made Easy
All WordPress developers have a cowboy coding horror story, or several. Or if they don’t, it is because they are very new or very very lucky. So gather around the campfire, and I’ll tell you the story of my most disastrous cowboy coding adventure. Continue reading →
Mexico News Daily is a popular English-language source for news about Mexico. The site publisher, Tony Richards, is also an avid user of WP Stagecoach: he uses WP Stagecoach to create a staging copy of Mexico News Daily almost every day. I contacted Tony to ask how he uses staging sites. Here is what he had to say: Continue reading →
Posted on by Morgan Kay You might hear developers talk about cowboy coding. At it’s most general, cowboy coding is quick and dirty, with little or no planning or safety measures or testing. Cowboy coders are undisciplined and wild, and although they often get good work done fast, they can also cause some big problems. Here at WP Stagecoach, when we talk about cowboy coding, we specifically refer to coding on live sites. Continue reading →
On Wednesdays, we tweet about WordPress best practices with the hashtag #WordPressWayWed.
Of course, no one will argue with the idea that developers should follow best practices. However, learning what the best practices are can be a challenge. It is both a strength and a weakness of WordPress that it is very flexible and there are often several ways of doing things. We want to help WordPress users and developers learn the WordPress Way – the best way of doing things with WordPress. Continue reading →
The WordPress Theme Review Team has announced that it will soon be required for themes to use WordPress’s native Theme Customizer instead of custom options forms or frameworks. I realize this is a controversial decision, and I understand why some theme developers are upset about this, but the WP Stagecoach team thinks this is a fantastic decision that will ultimately help the entire WordPress ecosystem. Continue reading →
Thanks, Bob Dunn and Dale Reardon, for writing reviews of WP Stagecoach!
Staging Sites Made Easy with WP Stagecoach
How To Work On Your WordPress Website Safely With Staging Sites
We are ecstatic to announce the official launch of WP Stagecoach 1.0!
WP Stagecoach makes it easy to create a WordPress staging site with one click, and to import changes back to your live site. With WP Stagecoach, you never have to develop on a live site again!
To celebrate our launch, we have special launch pricing available for a limited time:
We just released a new version of the WP Stagecoach plugin! It has been beautiful and sunny here, and it has been really hard to stay inside and get work done (plus, dripping ice cream really plays havoc with your keyboard!). We have persevered, and this version has some major improvements:
We’re really excited about this version and sunny weather!
From a programming standpoint, WP Stagecoach has two major components: the plugin that users install on their WordPress sites, and the server side programs where most of the magic actually happens. Continue reading →
Today we are shutting down our support forum, and moving to an email-based ticketing system.
Throughout the beta testing process, we have experimented with a few different ways of providing support, and we have found that an email ticketing system is the most reliable way for us to keep track of what issues have been resolved or not.