Cloning a site for a new domain & Staging Issues

websitedude1985

Hi Guys,

Here's my typical workflow.....

1. Setup BeTheme with demo content on a development URL e.g. mydevelopmentwebsite.com
2. I configure the theme on the domain, set its options, colours etc and build out my templates etc.
3. When done I then copy to staging so I can work further on developing the sites content. When happy I push changes to live.

Of course, when building and uploading images for example BeBuilder stores the full URL path. The image URL's do not update when I push to live so I end up having to manually update all the images so that the images are served from the correct URL.

Carrying out a Search & Replace in the site and DB fixes most issues - but it does not work with BeBuilder always and some URL's do not update at all so I end up with images/files being servied from both the Dev URL [mydevelopmentwebsite.com] and the STAGING URL [staging.mydevelopmentwebsite.com]

Once I finalise the site, and then fix all the URL's one by one within the builder and the widgets I am good to go but this is really time consuming.

HOWEVER HERE IS A SECOND ISSUE - once I was then happy with everything, I needed to clone the site for a second Brand for my business which essentially keeps the same design/layout - it's just the page content that changes. So when I Migrate the first site to a second URL - I have a similar situation.

I love BeTheme - but this does cause major issues for me and I suggest a really simple fix and that is to have the builder strip out the domain from the image paths for example. This would then mean that all it would store is /wp-content/myimagename.jpg for instance in the URL field of BeBuilder.

Is this something you can consider looking at?

ALSO - Not sure if this is a related issue - but I also find that the Templates when cloned from Site one to Site two - do not work and require re-building.

Phil

Hello,

1) If you want to update all links in BeBuilder, Theme options, and basically all places from Betheme, we have a special plugin for that. See the following article:

https://support.muffingroup.com/how-to/how-to-change-url-path-in-muffin-builder/

Anyway, if you use the Duplicator plugin for moving the website, you should not have this problem at all. We use this plugin constantly, and it handles URLs even in Betheme.

2) Can you provide some more details what is exactly happening with the templates, please?

Thanks

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websitedude1985

Thanks Phil - glad there is a solution