Use cases
Second delivery to staging
Delivering new pages to a staging site that already has the media from the first delivery — without duplicating the images and without links to the local site.
The scenario
The first delivery to staging brought the pages and their images. A week later there are two new pages that reuse some of those images, plus one new image. The second export carries them all; staging already has most of the images.
The steps
- On the local site, Tools → Export: check the two new pages (their images come along).
- Export, and on staging Tools → Import → WordPress with the file — Update existing on or off.
What the import does
- The images staging already has (same title and date as in the file) are reused, not imported again.
- Their addresses in the new pages — the full size and every image size (
photo-300x200.jpg) — point to the files on staging, not to the local site. Before, this only happened with Update existing on. - The new image is imported, and the blocks point to it (galleries to staging).
What it doesn’t
- An image whose file changed locally keeps staging’s old file: turn on Update existing to update pages, and replace the image in the media library.