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oik-clone – merge updates from WordPress MultiSite

Version 0.1 of oik-clone was specifically developed to allow content updates to be merged into the main site from a secondary staging/development site in a WordPress Multisite network

Background

The code was developed to assist with the update of the primary website for a firm of Independent Financial Advisers who wanted to update their website with a new theme and content.
  • In the UK, Independent Financial Advisers are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority
  • Most content changes need to be approved by a compliance team
  • The process of creating new content and/or updating existing content was expected to take a reasonably long time
  • The new version of the site was developed as a private site within a WordPress Multisite network
  • Meanwhile the live site was going to be updated with other new content. See below
  • In order to review the changes for the new site the compliance team needed access
  • After approval we needed to integrate the content changes as quickly as possible
  • oik-clone v0.1 was used to compare and update existing content and to import new content into the live site from the development site

Requirements

  • Integrate new/changed content from the development site into the live site without affecting other newly created content

Solution

Implement the pull model for WordPress Multisite, with the following features.
  • Match content to existing content
  • Detect changes and compare content with current
  • Pull changes from a selected source site into the current target site
  • Pull content and post meta data
  • Import new content or update existing

Process

The overall process followed was:
  • Clone the live site to the development site
  • Develop changes in the development site: theme, plugins, menus, widgets and content
  • Business as usual on the live site; new blog posts, changes of personnel, updates to some attachments, newsletters published, new testimonials, etc.
  • Make required changes in the development site: theme, plugins (new), menus, widgets and content
  • When necessary, having first confirmed that changes will not affect the live site, apply updates to certain plugins which are also used in the live site
  • Obtain approval from compliance
  • Take a complete backup
  • Clone the latest version of the live site to another sub site
  • Pull changes back into the live site using oik-clone’s compare and update functionality
  • Take another complete backup

Published: March 29, 2015 | Last updated: December 1, 2020

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  • oik-clone – clone your WordPress content
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