[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:  reopened      
 Priority:  normal                                                                    |    Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  General                                                                   |      Version:                
 Severity:  normal                                                                    |   Resolution:                
 Keywords:  beta, staging, development, ease of development, development, migration,  |  
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Changes (by hakre):

  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  invalid =>
  * milestone:  => Future Release


Comment:

 Well it's not just an idea, it's a valid use-case scenario that is pretty
 well known at least by senior webapp developers.

 I promote to document a standard staging scenario for wordpress and then
 to provide the manual steps to do it. After some iterations it should be
 clear which steps needs to be performed for staging.

 The next step is to implement/automate that. Within or after this stage it
 might be wise that core-code provides some actions so that plugins and
 themes can reflect a change of the domain name for example.

 I have moved some sites, I think the two most imporant parts are:

  - change of a domain name
  - database versioning

 Better fitting then the ideas forum is a codex page for that documentation
 process. As a start I created a page: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Staging
 Staging in the Wordpress Codex] which already contains all basic
 information and related links.

 I reopened this ticket because I think this is interesting for some
 serious administrators and developers.

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