I have searched the web and this topic is incredibly confusing, in my opinion, and I haven’t seen anyone address this particular question. And the videos that do sort-of address it, don’t explain why they are doing certain things in enough “historical detail”.
What I mean is, I remember installing SSH with **Really Simple SSL** on **WampServer** in 2019 and it wasn’t as difficult as these tutorials are making it sound. So, I’m wondering if things have changed very profoundly and if so what?
In 2019 I was freelancing, so I built the entire WordPress site on my laptop and only handed it over at the very end. And that seems to be the workflow that most of the few tutorials out there are addressing.
But, now I am working in-house, remotely, for an employer. So ***I make iterative changes on my laptop and then push them to staging multiple times a day.*** So, frequently I push those changes via the import method with a plugin called Duplicator Pro. I don’t know if the change pushing method really matters. It’s similar to migrating a site, but I’m doing multiple times.
We have an SSL certificate on STAGING, but not on DEV, which has caused issues in various plugins, with loading custom fonts, and other things when I’m developing on dev.
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So, my question is,
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* Has anyone else run into this?
* If I push from DEV to STAGING will there be any problems if STAGING has an SSL certificate and DEV doesn’t?
* Could the Google fonts I imported into Elementor (“custom fonts”) be not detected because I need SSL on localhost DEV?