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WordPress

Posted by Thomas Brushel
Thomas Brushel
11,713 Points

Updating a WordPress site with customization

I have a quick question, whats the best way to update a wordpress them with complex theme and heavy customization without breaking the site?? Any feedback would be great.

Thanks,

2 Answers

Mark Truitt
Mark Truitt
17,230 Points
Mark Truitt
Mark Truitt
17,230 Points

Hi Thomas,

I have a few questions regarding this. When you say customized. Are you talking about WP core was customize? Was this a theme itself that was customized without a child theme being used?

Mark Truitt
Mark Truitt
17,230 Points

In that cause your best bet is going to be to set it up locally and update and see what happens unless you have a way to clone the site on the server/different server with same specs. If that is all that was customized you should be fairly safe. Though I've come across clients that claim nothing was and when updated all sorts of stuff broke and then after the fact they mentioned after they were called out on it.

Safest thing is to back everything up. This way if it is major its easy to roll back.

Thomas Brushel
Thomas Brushel
11,713 Points
Thomas Brushel
Thomas Brushel
11,713 Points

Mark, I don't think that that core was touched (at least I hope it wasn't). Also a child theme was used for css customization. This is for a client where I work, I need to update the core and a few of the pluggins that are installed. We think that the site might break and there is only 20 hours to make any fixes, (that's if anything does break.)