Hello
I want to ask, if someone have experience with the Deploy plugin. The question is, if I update the theme from the development setup to the production setup is the deploy process overwriting the production content? My Theme setup is a flat file setup. So as far as I understand the deploy process will overwrite the changes made by the customer. Am I right?
Yup, that’s correct. That’s part of the reason why Tailor was created. To mitigate the issues of using the themes as a flat file setup.
What I suggest is, if you can, use the theme to create database entries and read the data from that.
Thank you for your reply.
This means if I use Tailor for content creation I will have no problem with content overwriting? Is this right.
Yes, that’s right. In Tailor, content goes in the database but the structure exists in the file system. This is a sweet spot when building websites.
Okay.
So if I have a normal cms page and the client is updating the page and I deploy a new version, the changes are gone. So every content needs to be a tailor content to work proper with the deploy plugin, right?
No, it you make the structural changes the data in the DB will be persist
Thank you for your answer