Going Live?
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I’m looking for pointers on how to “go live” with BP on my site. I’ve been working offline for months now getting everything ready but I’m not sure how to flick the switch without completely messing up the existing site.
At the moment I’d like to be able to just enable BP for when admin is logged in. I looked at a couple “theme switch” plugins that seem to control the theme side of things but I’d still have BP active in the background and I don’t want it to cause trouble.
I guess I’m just looking for info on how others have made the switch.
Thanks!
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It’s actually fairly easy. First you make a complete backup of your existing site (files and database). Then you copy the new files across to your server and activate BuddyPress. Adjust the options and you’re done!
If you don’t feel like setting all the options again or you have created already some groups for example, then you could export your local BP database tables and import them via PHPMyAdmin into your existing site.
The same is true for any blogs you have created locally that don’t exist yet online. In this case you will have to change some settings in the database after you imported the sql file. Basically, you do a search for your local url in your online database and replace it with your real url. You will have to do the same if you import the complete local database (e.g. if you synched your local dev site already with your online site).
It’s worth saying it again: Don’t forget to backup your existing site!
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