blogmaking.net http://www.blogmaking.net/blog How to make a blog and other helpful (and related) stuff! Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:55:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 en Setting up a test site http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/11/setting-up-a-test-site/ http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/11/setting-up-a-test-site/#comments Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:26:26 +0000 Cathy WordPress WP Intermediate WP Basic http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/11/setting-up-a-test-site/ It is a good idea to create a separate test blog to try out themes and plugins and other modifications that catch your eye without disrupting your real blog. Just go through the instructions for setting up a blog again, only name the wordpress directory “test” (eg http://domain.com/test/) or some random string if you’d like a little privacy for your tinkerings (eg http://domain.com/xkcd/)*. If you accidentally “break” the blog and can’t resolve the problem quickly, all you have to do trash the test blog and reinstall it.

If you were really pedantic, you could set up a couple of these, using one purely as a playground with the other set up as a technical mirror of your blog (it doesn’t need to have all the content though), so when you decide you like a change enough you can apply it to your mirror blog, and see its effects, if there are no problems then add that change to your real blog. If you do the change first on the mirror blog with every little technical change you do on the real blog, then the mirror blog will always be technically identical.

* as you may have noticed from a previous post, xkcd is actually the name of one of my favourite webcomics… check it out! http://xkcd.com

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