Manual eCommerce Site Setup On SiteGround: Day 2

Live WordPress Site Synchronized To Development Site

Logged into WP.
Matched live site settings (on AncientGreekKeyboard.com) to that of development site.
Additional HTACCESS security.
Installed Storefront theme.
Deleted all other themes.
Uploaded Child Theme with HTTP URLs commented out.
Uploaded background images to Media Library.
Stylesheet updated to use live site’s background images (ie: so that site does not use development site images).
Installed & activated WP Google Fonts plugin & set H1 tags to Caesar Dressing font.
Experienced caching problem while trying to style the top logos. Later discovered this was a host caching issue, and had to be fixed with cPanel.
Copied & pasted all pages from development site to live site.
Set menu & submenus.
Uploaded & inserted media to pages (ie: so that pages load images from HTTPS source).
Deleted unneeded plugins & installed required plugins.
Discovered several countries were trying to access the site within the last 24 hours despite ROBOTS.TXT request not to index the site.
Activated HTML sitemap plugin.
Set up HTML Sitemap page. Did not index 14 (Cancelled Transaction), 16 (Checkout) and 27 (Thank You) pages.
Activated Contact Form 7 plugin & set up Contact form.
Set up widgets.

In retrospect, it would take less time to use the Duplicator plugin or the Migrator tool from cPanel to copy the development site over to the live site.

(Though the advantage of manual migration is that problems can be more easily dealt with one at a time. And for a small site, the process is not too unwieldy.)

Live WordPress Site Synchronized To Development Site

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