[wp-hackers] WP Development & Production Sites

[Ryan Bilesky]

that would get everything, even settings from plugins the user may no longer
have installed.

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Andrew Nacin <wp at andrewnacin.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Ryan Bilesky <rbilesky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > what if there was a plugin that could backup the settings you've set
> from
> > one site (say a dev site) and import them to another site (say your
> > production site).  Now I am not aware of any way currently to where a
> > plugin
> > can know what settings another plugin makes, but you could have a txt
> file
> > with a list of option names like
> >
> > setting1
> > setting2
> > ect
> >
> > Go though the db and get_option for each of those, save it out to a file
> > like
> >
> > setting1:value1
> > setting2:value2
> > ect
> >
> > Import that generated file into the production site that would step
> though
> > that file line by line and update_option to move all settings from one
> site
> > to another.
>
>
> I believe they call that an SQL dump.
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