Migrating a site to a local development environment once or multiple times

This is the most common use case, which WP Synchro PRO completely support. To accomplish this, you would setup a new migration choosing ‘pull’ as the type and then choosing what you want migrated. You have complete control over what you want migrated and can have multiple setups with different configurations.

We normally have one migration configuration to get a copy of the production database to our local development environment and another configuration to migrate the files we want, such as media and other files.

That way we always have a solid environment, with data close to the production data, when we create new features and do bugfixing. This makes it alot faster, easier and more professional for our customers.

Create a staging environment for a production site and keep it updated on demand

An important part of a professional developer workflow, is having an environment where updates/new features/changes can be tested on. You never want to apply changes to a production environment without having a proper degree of certainty that it will not break the production site. This can be solved by testing changes on a local dev site or a staging site.

To accomplish this use case with a staging site, you would start by creating a new WordPress site, with url like staging.mysite.com. On this you would install WP Synchro PRO and configure it to pull data from the production site.

Then, every time you want to test anything, you re-run your pull configuration on the staging environment and this will update it to the same data as production site.

Then we have a perfect staging environment, that is ready in no time and makes sure you deliver the best quality and service to your customers.

Push database/file change from a dev site to a production/staging site

When making changes to a site, as response to a customer request or on you own site, you have to migrate these changes to a staging/production site. This can be done manually every time, but it can also be done by a push of a button. This prevents errors, such as forgotten files and the likes.

In WP Synchro PRO you would setup a push configuration and choose the specific data you want to push. It can be the database (if it is a static site only) or files/dirs to be moved.

Example: You develop a theme on your local environment and want to push to a production site when the timing is right. You would only have to do the configuration once and run it with the push of a button every time you want to push the code.