DOC – Promoting Staging to Production
Once you have finished update your staging environment and are ready to update the production environment, use this checklist to promote your changes back into production. Note that promotion COMPLETELY overlays the production system so ANY changes made to it after the staging area was created will be lost if they weren’t also put on the staging system. That is why you need to be sure to back up the production environment prior to doing the promotion.
Double check Staging System for updates
Run test sequence on Staging to validate it is working correctly
Check on Functions.php (see Child Theme)
Deactivate Plugins in Production
- Broken Link Checker (consider leaving on briefly for site validation)
- Post Type Swither
- WordPress Importer
- Yost Duplicate Post
Clear logs in Production
Check/clear redirection warnings in Production
Backup Prod
Run test sequence on Production to validate
Check logs, redirects