Crossposting from Staging to Production
You can also use my crossposting plugin in cases when you edit your content on a staging website and once ready, to push it on a live website, per post basis.
But in cases like this a little bit of extra configuration is required.
First, you will probably need to crosspost all the images in the post content. In order to do so, just go to Settings > Crosspost > Fields and activate this option:
Second, you need to replace URLs in the post content, it is easy, just use the code snippet below on your staging site (the site you’re crossposting from).
add_filter( 'rudr_swc_pre_crosspost_post_data', function( $post_data, $blog ) {
// just replacing the current (stanging) site URLs with the production site URLs
$post_data[ 'content' ] = str_replace( site_url(), $blog[ 'url' ], $post_data[ 'content' ] );
return $post_data;
}, 10, 2 );Please note, that both URLs we’re replacing are without / slashes.
If you’re using WooCommerce, you need to use rudr_swc_pre_crosspost_product_data instead of rudr_swc_pre_crosspost_post_data for products.
add_filter( 'rudr_swc_pre_crosspost_product_data', function( $product_data, $blog_id ) {
$blog = Rudr_Simple_WP_Crosspost::get_blog( $blog_id );
$product_data[ 'description' ] = str_replace( site_url(), $blog[ 'url' ], $product_data[ 'description' ] );
return $product_data;
}, 10, 2 );In case you have some URLs in your post meta:
add_filter( 'rudr_swc_pre_crosspost_meta', function( $value, $key, $id, $blog ) {
// you can also check for specfic meta keys here and I recommend to do that
// if( 'some_meta_key' !== $key ) {
// return $value;
// }
$value = str_replace( site_url(), $blog[ 'url' ], $value );
return $value;
}, 10, 4 );For example, this is the snippet for Elementor specifically:
add_filter( 'rudr_swc_pre_crosspost_meta', function( $value, $key, $id, $blog ) {
if( '_elementor_data' !== $key ) {
return $value;
}
$previous_url = site_url();
$new_url = $blog[ 'url' ];
$value = str_replace( addcslashes( $previous_url, '/' ), addcslashes( $new_url, '/' ), $value );
// if you want to make the replacements only in <a> tags, use the code below
//$value = preg_replace_callback(
// '/(href=\\\?")' . preg_quote( addcslashes( $previous_url, '/' ), '/') . '(.*?)(")/',
// function ( $matches ) use ( $new_url ) {
// return $matches[1] . addcslashes( $new_url, '/' ) . $matches[2] . $matches[3];
// },
// $value
//);
return $value;
}, 10, 4 );By the way, the snippet above will work flawlessly when you crosspost new pages with Elementor, but when you update existing ones – don’t forget about the Elementor cache. If you want the changes to be reflected immediately, go to Elementor > Tools > General and press the “Clear files and data” button.
Once again, if you don’t know where to use these code snippets.