Update WOOCOMMERCE, its expansion and wordpress itself may not be a braised experience. If you are preparing to fully and follow the best practice, you can avoid all the experiences that \”my product page looks strange\” and \”this plug -in cannot work properly\”.
Today we will show you four methods to better manage the update of your WOOCOMMERCE store. The next time I saw the phrase \”update available\” in WordPress is full of confidence in the instrument board.
Let’s start.
Keep some time to handle the update
We can provide one of the best prompts provided by quarrel plug -in, extension or core WOOOCOMMERCE -— – And has been provided before -it is
regularly, you can invest in this process .
According to the size of the store, the number of additional components installed, and the amount of testing needed, this may look like an hour every two weeks. Or it may look like a few hours or even a day a day.
This idea is to put something on your calendar in advance, so that you can use the update as a use Priority,
continue
as priority matters, don’t forget them. In addition, if you do this, the possibility of you encounter will be greatly reduced, because your adheres to the new version you use requires the latest version that you have not yet drawn time test.
Putting it on your calendar, you are unlikely to forget or rush through these updates of your store. Set a regular calendar dating for your update, and do his best to deal with them at that time (plus your test process).
Plan for temporary sites and backups in advance
No matter how developers make their WOOCOMMERCE expansion, the open -source nature of our community means that it may still conflict with something, from another expansion, from another expansion To your own custom code.
But you don’t need to let the conflict between the extension lead to a stop or other problems in your store.
If you test on the temporary siteUpdate to plan in advance, you will know what content needs to be corrected, and will not cause any damage to your store
.
The best preparation is to create backup and test updates on temporary sites -basically it is basically it You only use the copy of the real -time store you test. Jetpack provides a very simple option for creating backup -any payment plan contains one service. There is even a top plan, including real -time backup and click \”Band\” options for your website!
To create a temporary site with Jetpack:
Make sure you set up automatic backup
-You will need them to update your on-site site in the future.
Create the second site/directory on your server
. This does not require public access, but it must be accessible through FTP/SFTP.
Use VaultPress, Set your second site to the \”backup\” position, and then copy your recent backup (or on demand copy) to this position
.
That’s it -you have a temporary site now! All your products, additional components and orders will be in place, and you can apply and test any update in the same environment.
You only need to click to apply the update to the backup site (For example, temporary sites), so as to save a lot of time and manual copy file/database.
Next time you want to test on the temporary storage site, you need to repeat the second half of Step 3 to ensure that it has fresh/accurate data (and the latest of your expansion procedures. Copy) , and then continue to test any test.
Read more information about how to set up updates with Jetpack and restore backup to temporary sites.
Test all the content before the update
Since you know how to create a temporary site, we can share with you the third method to prevent updates from affecting your life:
Update
Previous
Test all content
.
Update seems to take such a long time or the biggest reason that causes so many problems is because we want Immediate update. We see a notice about plug -in update, I just want to click on the shiny button to see what new and people areExcited, we want to
now
Do it.
Our lack of patience is to cause strange themes, customs in custom code, and sometimes completely completely completely completely Cause of damaged websites. But it doesn’t have to be like this.
If there is a problem on the stage, you can sneak in and repair it -and there will be no risk of customers noticing.
If you have used time to update and use temporary sites, this step should be performed naturally. Apply any new plug -in or extended update on your test site (or at least
when your store is temporarily closed through the maintenance mode plug -in). Check your store carefully and test:
The function of its design/layout The availability of the product (including change, price and ability to add to the shopping cart)
] All steps that can complete the checkout
Any product/page that has a custom code or major changes to the theme, extension, plug -in, etc.
If the update passes the test, it can be applied to the real -time site. If not, you need to solve the problem before updating your real storage (or if you do not use temporary deposit, please roll back to the nearest backup).
This may look like a lot, but It will save you a lot of tests trouble
… and may spend your time and money.
Open or disable automatic update One thing we haven’t talked about is that WordPress (open source platform supporting Woocommerce) can and will be updated by ourselves.
Starting from version 3.7, WordPress will be automatically updated when maintenance or security versions available. However, when the main version is released, it will not be updated automatically
, nor will it update the plug -in or theme for you.
However, if you want to automatically update everything, you can
-Am, save the trouble of restoring another large amount of files and data every time you want to test.
or you can completely disable automatic updates
, in case you don’t want your Live Store to be affected by errors or conflicts.
Kinsta has a great post containing some code you can use. Several rows added to the wp-config.php file will allow you to enable or disable several types of automatic updates executed by WordPress. In addition, if you are willing, Jetpack can be automatically updated for all your plugins. You may also want to check with your host to see if they execute automatic updates -many wordPress hosts will do this. There is usually a setting that can be closed by itself. However, Please be careful to disable the automatic security update of WordPress, Because this may make you face risks such as violent attacks and hackers.
Use these prompts to update your website
Update Woocommerce, WordPress and extended programs without having pressure.
You can recover the control of the update process by using temporary storage sites and backups and fully testing.
If you leave time to do this instead of trying to complete everything during flight, you will feel less hurry -and you are more confident that you have a stable and stable shop.
We hope this suggestion will help you to some extent. If you have any suggestions to share, we hope you will comment below! Recommended reading:
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Apply any new plug -in or extended update on your test site