VeravalOnline Failover Post Sync with DNS and IP

Description

VeravalOnline Failover Post Sync with DNS and IP keeps a primary WordPress site and a standby copy in sync. Use it when the same public site runs on Server A and a failover Server B. Publishing on A used to leave B stale, which hurts SEO after DNS failover.

Install the plugin on both WordPress copies. The primary pushes:

  • Post title, slug, content, excerpt, status, and exact publish/modified dates
  • Featured images and attached media, written to the same uploads path
  • Categories, tags, and custom taxonomies
  • SEO and custom field metadata (Yoast, Rank Math, ACF, and others)
  • Deletes or trash, if enabled

Visitor-facing URLs stay on the public domain. The plugin never rewrites content to the failover IP or internal hostname.

DNS mode: Destination URL is a hostname that already points at Server B (internal DNS, hosts file, or a dedicated failover name).

IP mode: Destination URL is the public HTTPS URL. Destination IP is Server B. Requests keep the real Host/SNI so the SSL certificate still validates.

Installation

  1. Copy the veravalonline-failover-post-sync folder into wp-content/plugins/ on Server A and Server B.
  2. Activate VeravalOnline Failover Post Sync with DNS and IP on both sites.
  3. On both sites, open Failover Post Sync Settings and paste the same Shared API key.
  4. Server A: role = Primary. Set Destination URL to Server B’s WordPress home URL.
  5. Server B: role = Failover.
  6. On Server A click Test connection, then Sync all posts once to seed B.

FAQ

Will this change permalinks or image URLs?

No. Slugs and upload relative paths are copied as-is. Public URLs stay on the visitor domain.

Do post IDs stay the same?

Not necessarily. Matching uses a hidden sync GUID, then the same slug. Gutenberg image IDs and attachment meta are remapped automatically.

What if we already created some posts by hand on Server B?

A full sync updates the failover post that has the same slug, so you do not get duplicates.

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Contributors & Developers

“VeravalOnline Failover Post Sync with DNS and IP” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.0.2

  • Keep “Tested up to” only in the readme.
  • Register the custom cron interval before scheduling it on activation.
  • Import synced media through WordPress upload APIs.
  • Stop impersonating an administrator during remote content import.

1.0.1

  • Distinctive plugin name and slug for the WordPress.org directory.
  • Tested with WordPress 7.1.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.