Support

June 8, 2018 at 2:19 pm

Does EE utilize native WordPress custom post types for the events?

Yes.

If they copy my site onto a staging site, what is the best option to move over all those customizations?

Use a tool like WP Migrate DB or [Duplicator] (https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/)

Would it be something like this>
They clone my live website, then make all the custom code customizations on staging site.
During the project, they make tedius notes of what line number, or databse table they had to edit to make the stuff work.
Then, at the end they will go back to the live website and make the changes there since it’s not a good idea to trasnfer or copy over the EE databse?

Absolutely not! There is no need to make changes to the database tables. If they need a place to store data for the points system, for example, those could go into their own tables or they can use one of the _meta tables. I’m very curious why this question was asked because generally there is no need to alter tables to do customization work.

What is Event Espresso best way of making customizations to Event esperesso and database without causing any errors to current database or damaging info?

This bears repeating: Please do not make customizations to the database. Please also do not make customizations directly to the Event Espresso plugin.

The best way to make customizations related to PHP, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS is to use the WordPress plugin API and put the customizations into their own plugin. For example, one plugin could be for adding the points system, and another plugin could be for extending the user login functionality. Once these plugins are developed, tested, and ready for the live site the plugins can be deployed to the live site.