Avi Bashari

galpeaceman

<h4>DEV Theme</h4>
Develop your website on live server without crashing your site, then deploy all changes in 1 click.
With Dev Theme plugin, you can easily create a separate staging environment for your website where you can test and experiment with new themes and designs without affecting your live site. Our plugin allows you to make changes to your staging site, preview the changes and only when you’re ready, you can push them to your live site with just a click of a button.
Our plugin makes it easy for you to edit themes on your live site, without worrying about affecting your live site until you decides to. You can experiment with different themes, customize them to your liking, and see how they look and feel on your site, all without having to worry about damaging your live website.
While the plugin does not allow you to edit plugins on the site, it ensures that any changes made to your theme are isolated and do not affect your live site. This means that you can experiment with new designs, layouts, and features without the risk of damaging your website’s performance or functionality.
Overall, Dev Theme plugin is a powerful tool that allows you to create a safe and isolated environment to experiment with your website’s design and layout, making it easy for you to make changes and improvements without any risk to your live site.
<h4>How it works?</h4>
The staging feature of Dev Theme, allows you to create a safe and secure environment for you to experiment and develop your website without impacting your live site.
When you create a staging environment, the plugin will copy your active theme into a folder called “dev-theme”. 
This folder is where you can safely edit the code of your website without affecting the live version. 
Once you’ve made the desired changes, you can preview the new version of your website by either activating the dev-theme just for your user, to do that, just enter to your profile and look for the “Dev Theme” option. 
Another option, add a dev_theme cookie with the value “enabled” in your browser.
This way, you can test your changes thoroughly before making them live to ensure the best possible user experience. 
With Dev Theme plugin, you can confidently develop and experiment with your website knowing that your live site remains safe and untouched.

Dev Theme

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Jamin Szczesny

PushLive allows you to have a fully functioning staging site or Multisite environment for editing and development that you then with a single click individually push to the live site when you’re ready.
Now works with Multisite! – Featuring Independent Pushes for Each Site
Coming Soon (Next Major Release): PushLive Replicate – Easily create a staging site from your current live site
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<h4>With PushLive you ( or your clients ) will make all initial and future edits on the staging site, push them to the live site, and in most cases never actually touch the live site except to enjoy its awesomeness</h4>
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Please read the <a href="installation#sections" rel="nofollow ugc">Installation and Setup Instructions</a>
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Single Site WordPress installations – PushLive is compatable with nearly all available Plugins
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Special Multisite WordPress installations – PushLive is installed at the Network Admin level and best used when building and testing the site from the ground up because some Plugins are simply not compatable with PushLive in a Multisite environment
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Requires:
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<li>Linux based server</li>
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Major features in PushLive include:
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<li>Fast staging to live pushes that only update the new or changed content as necessary.</li>
<li>Individual and Independent pushes for each site if using Multisite.</li>
<li>Easy 1 page, top to bottom setup and configuration.</li>
<li>A visible log of all previous pushes can be viewed on the main PushLive page.</li>
<li>Require all users to log in to view the staging server </li>
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Other Features:
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<li>Creates database backups during every push</li>
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History:
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<li>This was originally a simple tried and true Joomla 1.5 component my company developed many years ago</li>
<li>I then updated it for Joomla 2.5 and added some new features</li>
<li>Updated it for Joomla 3.5 and again added some new features</li>
<li>Rewrote it for WordPress for my own use about a year ago</li>
<li>Decided shortly after that I would become a WordPress developer and release it publicly</li>
<li>9 months of using it later I finally released it with some new features and minor bugs fixed</li>
<li>Historically PushLive has always served us/me good use so it should be something you can trust and rely on as well</li>
<li>We have NEVER had a major issue with PushLive we had to recover from, but you should always back up your site</li>
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Banner Imagery:
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<li>Photo by: Tom Johnson (https://www.facebook.com/tigger1759)</li>
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PushLive – Staging Sites to Live in One Click

I might be a bit biased, but PushLive has always worked like a charm for me! After you take a few minutes to set it up, the one button push is all you ever have to think about from then on to make your changes live. I thought about giving PushLive 4 stars, because I know it could be better... But how it could be better has really stumped me, so naturally the only logical thing to do in that case was to 5 star it and see if everyone else agrees!



Works Perfectly Every Time!

Allows you to have a fully functioning development Staging Site or Multisite that you can individually Push to Live when ready.

Dev Theme vs PushLive – Staging Sites to Live in One Click