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

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/transferring-plugin-settings-and-page-builder-customizations-to-staging-and-production-environments/18890
**Category:** trellis
**Created:** 2020-08-12T21:36:47Z
**Posts:** 3

## Post 1 by @disc — 2020-08-12T21:36:48Z

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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## Post 2 by @alwaysblank — 2020-08-12T22:20:47Z

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](https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-migrate-db-pro/), which is a great plugin, but keep in mind that it is _overwriting_ your databases, not combining them.

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## Post 3 by @disc — 2020-08-12T22:53:21Z

Thanks for the quick response!

OK. I’ll try with these options then.

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## Post 4 by @system — 2020-09-23T21:36:49Z

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