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So for a friend he asked me to change text and some layout of his website. I got access to the wp-admin. It’s a wordpress website built with elementor. How would I make adjustments and preview them first and show them to my friend without changing the ‘actual’ website in real time?
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Not an expert by any means but duplicate the page and make the changes there maybe?
When changing stuff Elementor, save draft (as opposed to ‘update’). Then when you’re happy, you can update.
The go-to answer for this: clone the site with duplicator or another site-migration plugin. Put a copy — often called a “staging” copy — on your laptop and hack away. Then, when you have practiced and messed around enough to know you won’t break things, edit on the main site.
Squash the current advice together. Best practice is never to edit live. Most hosts have a ‘clone to staging’ type solution. If not you can add a subdomain – backup with duplicator / all-in-one wp – or similar. Restore to staging. Work there.
The only time to work on live is if you have an ecommerce store and need to keep order-data etc. intact. Then you can practice on staging till it’s right, and copy / repeat edits – just that page.
Depends on how extensive the “text and some layout” changes are.
If they’re limited to an individual page, then duplicate the page (use a clone/duplicate plugin) and use that page as a dev page.
If the changes are going to have global implications, then you’d want to go the staging route and duplicate the entire site.
Pro trick: Make a local server with XAMPP or other software.
Make a wordpress on it and install updraft plus on it and on the published site.
Then make a gmail or use yours to make a drive file for saving the backups and put the route on the 2 sites to the same folder and ofc using the same acc.
Backup the published site when done go to the staged one and u can load the backup (u will see it on the control panel of updraft)
Edit all what u want.
When done and if all is ok do a backup in the staged site and load it on the published one.
Profit.