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I’m working on an e-commerce site which is fairly active (a few sales per hour). Users can also login and perform a few actions.
My question is, what’s the best way to develop for a site like this? Is there a way I can develop parts of the website locally without affecting the WooCommerce side of things?
Or will I always have to put the site into maintenance mode if I want to change something?
What’s safest?
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What changes do you need to make?
If you’re making code/template/plugin changes, you’d setup a staging server, make your code changes, then if all ok, deploy them to production.
If you’re just making page design changes, duplicate the page, make the changes, then delete the original and change the slug of the duplicate to the original.
Dear u/joebewaan I am working as an SEO specialist for the last 10 years. As per your concern, I would like to add that you need to work in **DEV** mode and don’t make changes on the live OR running website, whether you are using WooCommerce or any other platform.
The safest way is to make changes on DEMO/DEV mode run, check, test and audit, and then implement on the live website.