[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12865: Better support for beta/staging

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#12865: Better support for beta/staging
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 Reporter:  mnolin           |       Owner:                                                  
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new                                             
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Unassigned                                      
Component:  General          |     Version:                                                  
 Severity:  normal           |    Keywords:  beta, staging, development, ease of development,
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 Currently it is very difficult to maintain a beta / staging version of
 your wordpress site. As wordpress grows in popularity and is used on
 websites that would like to minimize downtime a beta/staging setup in
 addition to a production or main setup would be ideal. If one tries to do
 this now, you can attempt to copy the whole database over to the beta or
 staging setup which will result in links on the beta/staging version going
 to the production/main url's. This makes it relatively unusable. Ideally
 there would be some solution where developers can decide for their
 beta/staging site to download data from their production/main server every
 day or at will which will allow them to keep things updated and allow for
 them to test with their most recent content which can be useful. If this
 synchronization can occur without the previous problems and other problems
 that occur with simply copying the entire production database that would
 be wonderful!

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12865>
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