moving design of test site to main site

[faisal]

Please guide me in the following.

1. My main website is in eleven40- http://www.telecomlighthouse.com
2. I setup a test website in eleven40 Pro ( http://www.test.telecomlighthouse.com) , tweaked CSS, did some modification to the Php file.
3. I also did some changes to menus.

My question is how do I copy the test theme to the main site without disturbance.

I am thinking of first installing the eleven40 Pro on main site and then copying entire PRO theme folder from test website to the main site replacing PRO theme folder there....

I don't want to end up messing anything on live website, so that's why I need some guidance.

http://www.telecomlighthouse.com

[CleanPageDom]

Hi Faisal

I'm not sure if some of the changes you've made won't affect the DB, so copying the CSS etc across may not take all of the changes. You can do as you suggest and then correct any mismatches between the test and live sites (I've done this in the past). In fact, this is what it says in the codex:

Keeping Your Domain Name and URLs
Moving your domain without changing the Home and Site URLs of your WordPress site is very simple, and in most cases can be done by moving the files.

If database and URL remain the same, you can move by just copying your files and database.
If database name or user changes, edit wp-config.php to have the correct values.
If you want to test before you switch, you must temporarily change "siteurl" and "home" in the database table "wp_options" (through phpMyAdmin or similar).
If you had any kind of rewrites (permalinks) setup you must disable .htaccess and reconfigure permalinks when it goes live.

Best of luck
Dom

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[faisal]

Thanks Dom,

I understand that I would need some plugin to export /import menus. Can you recommend some.

thanks,

Faisal

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