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How WordPress handles staging copies, migrations, revisions, templates and deletes, and how to keep each one from costing you work.
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Posts Get 30 Days in the WordPress Trash. Categories Get Zero
By default, when you delete any posts or pages in WordPress, they go to the trash bin first and can be restored from there, but when you delete…
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Which WordPress Pages Use This Template? The Answer Is in _wp_page_template
The page template is the one we pick when we are editing a page in the right sidebar, under the Template section. The Pages screen itself never shows…
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WordPress Revisions Restore Everything. Here Is How to Restore One Block
A whole paragraph was deleted last week, the post was edited 10 times since then, so when we went to the revisions and clicked “Restore This Revision” ->…
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Moving a WordPress Site? Anything Saved on the Old Server Stays There
When we migrate a WordPress site, we copy the database from the previous server to the new one and then switch the DNS. The old site keeps taking…
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Every WordPress Copy Is Theoretically Production Until You Say Otherwise
When you take a copy of your WordPress site to a staging environment, all the customers, orders, and other data is copied to the staging copy. Also, the…