Developing WordPress themes is considerably easier with real content. Unexpected situations begin to arise when people add pages, posts, media and comments. Your beautiful template can break when:
- editors use assets which are too big or small for your breakpoints to handle
- managers introduce a new menu item which doesn't fit at lower screen sizes
- your theme implements a two-level menu hierarchy which fails to cater for the inevitable third-level page
- long or deeply-nested comments become unreadable.
Ideally, your development server should have a snapshot of your live production server's database. Your workflow can be improved further if content is automatically synchronized when changes occur.
Synchronization Snags
One-way WordPress database replication can be more challenging than you expect. There are good reasons why few coders live in this development dreamland…
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by Craig Buckler via SitePoint
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