Hi I have few wordpress sites, which receives huge traffic 24/7. Whenever I want to update, it makes me in trouble that my website must not affected directly while working live. Sometime code or design conflict can occur and makes more problems, I want when I update site, this will work smoothly until I upload/make new changes open for everyone to see changes. Please help & guide me on this. Regards Waseem
Hi Waseem, Are these just theme changes? If so you could create a duplicate theme in your /wp-content/themes/ folder and make edits there, and check the edits by use the theme preview. Or maybe use a plugin like this (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-theme/) to have the separate theme only be shown to you while you work on the site.
So you need to update the theme or move the site to anther server, or upgrade the site with latest version. If you want to upgrade the site with the latest version then it is hardly few mins work and you can update it mannually. If you want to edit the theme then download the time in your local PC and then modify as per the needed.
If you need some major update, you have to take a backup and set the backup in somewhere else, and update there. Once update work is done, upload it to your main site. You can make minor changes when you are live though