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WordPress Modern WordPress Workflow The Local Development Environment Review: Local Development Environment

sergio verdeza
PLUS
sergio verdeza
Courses Plus Student 10,765 Points

When deploying to production, you may need to install an plugin to make database changes without visitors.

I'm not sure this question, I think I understand the Version Control but is not he correct answer.

3 Answers

I'm not familiar with this particular quiz, but in general, if you have a high traffic site, you will want to block visitors when doing database upgrades. This ensures that no visitor will get a completely broken page. WordPress core uses a .maintenance file to put the site into maintenance mode and then deletes the file after all the updates have been completed.

Jesse Petersen
STAFF
Jesse Petersen
Treehouse Guest Teacher

It's supposed to go in Stage 3 and is getting moved there.