If you've been a WordPress developer for a while, you're probably familiar with test sites. And while they're important in regular WordPress development, they're critical in WooCommerce development. The following screenshot shows what a website development process looks like:
With a typical WordPress development project, you'll build custom functionality on your local machine. Then, you'll upload it to a test site where the client usually approves it. Then, you move the test site to the live site, replacing data and files.
And this works great for most WordPress projects. But when it comes to e-commerce, there are two problems:
- You can never replace the live database: Since an e-commerce site is always on and always accepting new orders, payments, and marking items as shipped, you can't replace the live database with...