This articles describes the process to migrate staging to production on WP Engine.
Log in directly to staging: https://my.wpengine.com/sites
Path: Log into WPEngine NOT Wordpress.
- Select Sites. Click cpmorg (Prd).
- Create a backup of prod before you push changes. If something goes wrong with the updates in prod, you can rollback to this backup to restore prod. Select "Backups".
- Select "Create backup".
- Enter Backup description.
- Replace with your email.
- Select "Create backup".
You will receive an email when the backup is complete.
You can verify that the backup was created in the Backup screen.
1. Select Sites from menu on the left.
2. Select cpmstg.
3. Select "Actions"
4. Select "Push to..."
5. Verify Push is STG and To is cpmorg
6. Under "What would you like to push? "
7. Select "Full environment".
8. Verfiy cpmstg to cpmorg.
9. Updated notification email.
10. Select "Push changes".
You will receive an email when the 'push' is complete.
Note: Remember you can always restore the backup of prod you did in the beginning if you need to rollback the updates
