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Syncing content

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- [Instructor] It's possible that while you were working on your staging site, changes were made to your live or production site. It's important that the two sites remain in sync as much as possible. If not, you could push changes from staging to live and accidentally overwrite important changes that were made to the live site. So for example, say your live site is an eCommerce shop. As new sales come in, the live site will be updated with that new sale information and customer information. You don't want to overwrite that data, when you update your plugins, so it's important that you have automatic synchronization for when those kinds of changes occur. You can sync your live site with the staging site in a few ways. Probably the best option for beginners is to use a plugin. There are tons of good plugins out there, like Snapshot Pro, WP Migrate DB Pro, WP Sync DB, VersionPress, and more. They all basically do the…

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