Template staging

[AdamPokora]

Hi Team,

We're developing custom pages/templates/sites with custom JS for our client (which are live) and we're still wondering, how we can build/manage to stage our development sites? Any tips on how can we modify our custom site/template with a staging site and then push the changes to the template and production? 

Best,

Adam

[Anton · Accepted solution]

Hi @AdamPokora, 

you have at least these two options:

- create a new, free development Hub here to create new templates

- build the theme/templates in the current hub

If you're developing a theme I would recommend to use the CLI - if you don't use it already. It makes the live of a developer much easier and it's quite simple with a development hub. 

Working with Staging in general is quite a charm

phase existing pages to the staging environment as described here and then change the templates of the "phased" pages. Notice: If you "phase" a page with existing content it might get lost in the staging. After you've finished with your changes push it to live environment from the staging - you're done. The "old" page/content will be overwritten with the new one which was pushed from staging. 

Tipp: If you're using local development with CLI you can even connect it to Github 

hope this helps

best, 

Anton