How to replace client’s live site with customized Virtue demo site

[Rebecca]

Rebecca

September 7, 2019 at 6:32 pm

I created a subdomain on my client’s live site so I could experiment with building them a new site without disturbing their existing site or worrying about conflicts with their many plugins. I wanted a clean install. I used the Kadence Importer plugin to set up the Site Style Four demo in the subdomian, and then customized it, uploading just the bare minimum of media needed to give a sense of the look and feel. I customized pages, portfolios, galleries, sliders, post styling, etc. I didn’t build out the whole site, I just created examples of each kind of page or element, to get sign-off from the client. I made a child theme from my work and activated it in the client’s live site.

The client never took advantage of the Virtue Premium features – the site is just a flat page with a few links. They have years of blog posts (not currently showing on the site), an extensive media library, and lots of plugins.

Aside from building everything over again from scratch in the main domain, can you suggest any time-saving steps I could take to port the new pages and settings over from the subdomain to the main domain? I need to preserve all the media, and utilize the blog posts in the new style.

Thanks for any thoughts on how to approach this.