I recently posted two articles about cloning joomla sites for development and transferring the changes back to the live site. Those posts apply for large changes to existing sections on your Joomla website, but for smaller changes and added functionality you can operate extemely efficiently through what I call "Clever ACL Management". This will speed up development while still providing minimal disturbance to your users on your live site.

A few days ago I covered how to clone a Joomla website so you can work on it without disturbing your users on the live site. In this followup I will give you some pointers on proper procedures while developing on the cloned site and show you how to move those changes back over to your live site.

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