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Hello everyone,
I’ve been using OxygenBuilder and I’m thinking of switching to Bricks Builder, that would lead me to practically redo all the pages (which I have no problem with). However, I have my site up and running and I would like to know if it is possible to use Bricks Builder in parallel for the same page, but not activate it, until I check a publishing option.
* I do not want to create a draft page
* I don’t want to migrate the site to a subdomain and work it there
Is there a tool that allows me to work with 2 builders in parallel, but not activate one, until everything is ready?
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Google “staging” site. Check if your hosting provider has that already automated.
Whatever you work on your staging site is not reflected on the website that’s online (you are working on a copy of the website).
Then when you are finished, you publish your staging site, and it makes the changes to the website that’s online.
Don’t do that. Backup the site and start migrating on a new dev site. Even better, make a new site and import only the content.
I don’t know about Oxygen and Bricks specifically but, yes, *for some builders* it’s possible to have them both installed and working on different pages. That would let you go page-by-page redoing things.
The trick is that some builders step pretty far out of their lane, sometimes overriding functions and features that should best be left to the theme. Oxygen is pretty cool but it really blurs the lines between theme and content. Meanwhile, Bricks is literally a theme with a builder added as a functionality feature, which trashes the line between themes and plugins altogether.
So Bricks and Oxygen may not play well together. At all. I mean, they might be fine but you don’t want to try it on your live site first.
So even if you don’t like the idea of subdomains I’m going to recommend, strongly, that you spin up the site on a local server or staging server and try it first there. Try it on at least a couple of main pages plus an archive, a search page, and one of each content types. If it all works then great, then you can try it on your live site.
Some other builder combinations might work better, though even then some of them are such resource hogs the site will grind to a halt. And if one of them handles theme features (e.g. lets you use the builder to edit the header) that may be even more problematic. But, yes, in practice it sometimes works.