Made a back up of my site that includes my simple press forum, updated the theme and now ready to push my staging site to prod. I dont however want to lost my new forum members and posts that were made on prod while I updated the theme in stage.
I saw WordPress has an easy staging to live option but I dont know what Simple Press files to keep in prod that are used in the forum. I could use some help.
What a waste of $39. Waited 6 hours and no response. Should have googled first.
Can I get a refund of my $39?
Well – I am real sorry I went to bed and slept through the night and that my US colleague was stuck on an airplane until the early hours. But hey – I got up real early this morning so that I could answer you.
There are two main components to Simple:Press not including the actual plugin itself. The first, any physical files, are held in whatever you decided were the storage locations but by default are created in a folder called ‘sp-resources’ under the WordPress ‘wp-content’ folder. Mostly, when people move a WP website that will also move the entire ‘wp-content’ folder anyway.
The other component are the database tables and all Simple:Press tables start with the prefix ‘sf’ following your own WP prefix. E;g;., ‘sfgroups’, ‘sfforums’ etc.
So if you are moving the entire site as long as all the DB tables and the ‘wp-content;’ folder goes then mstly it should all be OK. A lot of people do this.
There are some notes in the codex FAQ here that also touch on any small changes you may nbeed to make after the move:
https://simple-press.com/documentation/codex/faq/problem-with-post-edit-buttonow-to/problem-with-post-edit-buttonow-to-move-sp-to-a-new-server-or-domain/
Ended up googling my answer and made the push last night, 6 hours after my inital post. I had to make the push to prod ASAP and was recommended that I get on here as y’all are usually quick to answer my questions.
How do I go about getting my $39 back?