Staging Management
Aurelio Volle
Description:
Our upcoming feature will empower you to efficiently manage existing staging or local environments within WP Umbrella. You'll also have the capability to seamlessly migrate your staging environment to a live website, simplifying the development and testing process.
Key Benefits:
- Streamlined Staging:Manage and oversee your staging or local environments directly within WP Umbrella, enhancing your website development workflow.
- Easy Migration:Effortlessly move your staging environment to a live website, reducing the complexity of deployment.
How Can You Help Us?
- Vote:Show your interest and support by voting for this feature on our roadmap.
- Share Your Ideas:Have additional suggestions or ideas related to staging management and website migration? We're all ears! Share your thoughts with us.
- Tell Us Why This Is Important for you?Share your personal insights on why this feature is important to you to help us understand your perspective.
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Alex Calinov
It's been Upcoming since 2023. Any updates on this?
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Doug Steinberg
We 100% need this even for just login functionality. We are gradually migrating from ManageWP/GoDaddy Pro, and we have our staging sites tagged and accessible there. However, each environment in MWP has a unique key that gets overwritten when we push between environments. We don't need backups, monitoring, or fancy features in staging, but access is a must. Although it would be cool to run updates on staging and test there instead of in production...
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Zack Pyle
Aurelio Volle Where is this feature request standing in 2025?
Rune Rasmussen
Regarding GDPR this can be a bit tricky with all kind of plugins storing privacy data, but it should probably at least have support to skip/anonymiz privacy data from WP and Woo for the staging sites?!
Also it should probably have an option to stop all mails from sending (https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-emails/), and also an option to disable the default queue runner (https://github.com/woocommerce/action-scheduler-disable-default-runner) - useful for sites with various automation (AutomateWoo etc.).
Oh, and maybe also deactivate all webhooks (for Woo) automatically...
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Audrey Soler
OMG yes please, it's a wonderful idea! Easy Migration, staging with debug mode if possible, where do i sign? 😁
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EZ Smith
Aurelio Volle what is the status of this feature (and improved backup/offsite options as well)? Just started the process to switch all our managed sites over to WP Umbrella but already having issues with how backups and working (not able to spinup in LocalWP site without considerable work, sql file split is a hurdle that is easy enough to solve, but sql will not import manually without errors even after that). Need better backup/staging connections to make this work.
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Alex Calinov
Any updates on this? This is the only thing holding me back from moving over from Blogvault. Not only that staging sites are important to test updates, but also when restoring a backup from a month ago, ideally I would like to be ablet to restore it on a staging site first, to test it, to make sure it works fine, before pushing to the live site.
Valentin lecerf
Not really needed on my side...
Zoltan Gal
This would be great!
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David Mitchell
Currently using Softaculous staging, available on our server, and also trying InstaWP for this.
Softaculous falls short in a few areas: You can't sync the live site back to the staging site (if you switch back and forth between making bigger changes on staging and small ones on live), and it doesn't clear the cache on the live site when migrating from staging to live (LiteSpeed Cache, on most sites). It does allow you to exclude specific database tables from migration, but you can't save which ones should be excluded. It doesn't get any more granular than that. It also will disable but
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delete plugins on the live site, if you've deleted them on the staging site.I'm testing InstaWP, which tracks individual events to sync from one environment to the other. But you have to use their staging environment. I'll soon see how well it works at transferring selected changes from staging to live.
Basically, I want to be able to prepare site changes and migrate them without affecting updated posts (of all types), form submissions, logs, or statistics on the live site. But I know that's much easier said than done!
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