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davegriffin
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18th January 2011 (1 year ago)
Hi.
Can you make any recommendations on best practices on how to transfer a theme (we're using Blogs MU, but the question is for WPMU Dev themes in general) and its settings from a staging site to another.
We can certainly just manually transcribe everything we see, but if there were some specific database tables/queries coupled with file system entries we could use to transfer settings that would be great.
I'm guessing that because a lot of this has to do with widgets and whatnot, this may not be practical but I thought it was worth asking.
Can you make any recommendations on best practices on how to transfer a theme (we're using Blogs MU, but the question is for WPMU Dev themes in general) and its settings from a staging site to another.
We can certainly just manually transcribe everything we see, but if there were some specific database tables/queries coupled with file system entries we could use to transfer settings that would be great.
I'm guessing that because a lot of this has to do with widgets and whatnot, this may not be practical but I thought it was worth asking.
Responses (2)
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 18th January 2011 (1 year ago) #
Not really. Even the advanced exporter doesn;t touch theme settings.
If you're looking specifically at the widgets, you can go into the options database table for the blog in question and export out the data records.
An older forum reference: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-there-a-way-to-exportimport-widgets-from-one-wp-blog-to-another
edit: A more up to date reference: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/replicating-wordpress-blog-importing-widgets
Member — 21st January 2011 (1 year ago) #
Thank you. Not surprised -- it's a tangled web at best.
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