Testing changes on the wrong system

5. Now think again more carefully.
Try not to get annoyed
"The code that you are running,
is that what you deployed?"

While writing these pages, I felt I needed to develop some improvements to both the oik-presentation plugin and oobit theme. I was changing them on my local development system. I normally create content on my development system, then clone it to the live server afterwards.

On at least two separate occasions I found it odd that my changes didn’t appear to be working. And then I remembered I was writing this content on the live site and I hadn’t yet deployed the changes.

When I pulled the site to my development environment I still found myself wondering why things weren’t working, then realised I was working on the live site, not in my development environment.

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