Transferring plugin settings and page builder customizations to staging and production environments

trellis
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Hi all,

I’ve installed several plugins and customized a theme with a page builder (Elementor) in the the dev environment. I would like to transfer my plugin settings and the theme customizations to the staging and production environment.

Is this possible? If yes, how?

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Those things are probably stored in the database. I don’t believe Trellis includes anything for automated database transfer because reconciling WordPress databases automatically is a hairy problem that AFAIK has not been solved. Generally your options are:

  • Manually copy-and-paste over any changes
  • Push your entire database, overwriting whatever database exists on the remote server
  • Manually resolve database differences in the database itself (which sounds like a nightmare)

I use WP DB Migrate Pro, which is a great plugin, but keep in mind that it is overwriting your databases, not combining them.

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Thanks for the quick response!

OK. I’ll try with these options then.

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