Title: Issues with dev site
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Issues with dev site

 *  Resolved [faithdanceart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/faithdanceart/)
 * (@faithdanceart)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dev-site/)
 * I am using Desktop Server when doing more extensive changes. I am using Updraft
   to migrate the site from the life site to the development site. The last time
   I migrated the site, I had all kinds of problems and thought it was the fault
   of the latest Updraft version, but eventually found out that the problems originated
   from different Jetpack plugins that I started using recently.
 * One was **Protect **which did not allow me to login to my dev site and kept sending
   me in neverending circles. So, I had to deactivate it before doing the backup
   used for migration. Since I don’t want to switch back and forth, I can’t use 
   it anymore.
 * The other one was **Photon** – none of the images showed in my portfolio grid
   and I thought I had lost them or at least the correct links. After a lot of searching
   I realized that because the dev site is stored on my computer, Photon might not
   like that. Sure enough, when I deactivated Photon, my images (or most of them)
   were back.
 * I still have a problem with some **tiled galleries**, but I am not sure what 
   causes it.
 * Updraft support was very helpful, but when we discovered that the problems originated
   with Jetpack, they asked me to let you know.
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 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
 * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dev-site/#post-6087383)
 * > One was Protect which did not allow me to login to my dev site and kept sending
   > me in neverending circles.
 * That’s something that should have been solved in Jetpack 3.5, as per the discussion
   [here](https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/1897). Could you give it 
   another try with the latest version of Jetpack, and let me know how it goes?
 * > because the dev site is stored on my computer, Photon might not like that.
   > […]
   > I still have a problem with some tiled galleries, but I am not sure what causes
   > it.
 * That’s correct. Since your images aren’t publicly accessible, Photon can’t download
   them and serve them from our servers.
 * You shouldn’t be able to enable any of these 2 modules on a local environment,
   but I assume Updraft allowed you to trick our system by copying things from your
   live site to your development environment.
 * When copying sites with Updraft, I’d recommend you to delete the `jetpack_options`
   row from the `wp_options` table in your database. This row contains data that
   shouldn’t be copied from one site to another, or it will cause conflicts like
   the ones you’ve experienced.
 * And when working in a local installation of WordPress, you can use [Jetpack’s Development mode](http://jetpack.me/support/development-mode/)
   to use only the features that do not require a connection to WordPress.com.
 * I hope this helps.
 *  [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dev-site/#post-6087413)
 * > When copying sites with Updraft, I’d recommend you to delete the jetpack_options
   > row from the wp_options table in your database. This row contains data that
   > shouldn’t be copied from one site to another, or it will cause conflicts like
   > the ones you’ve experienced.
 * Hi,
 * Thanks – this is helpful information. We will incorporate this into the next 
   UpdraftPlus release, so that it happens automatically when migrating as site 
   to a new location.
 * It’d be handy, though, if you can just re-confirm that for me: that this option
   should always be entirely deleted if the site changes URL – and that won’t have
   any unexpected side effects. (Given the very generic name of the option, “jetpack_options”,
   my immediate suspicion is that users would start complaining that all their options
   vanished!).
 * Best wishes,
    David
 *  [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dev-site/#post-6087414)
 * Sorry – an empty follow-up post, just so that I can tick the “Notify me of follow-
   up posts via email” box this time…
 * David
 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
 * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dev-site/#post-6087417)
 * [@david](https://wordpress.org/support/users/david/) Thanks for jumping in!
 * `jetpack_options` is an array of options, and all these options are related to
   the site and its connection to WordPress.com: the site URL, its matching ID on
   WordPress.com, information about the WordPress.com account connected to the site,…
 * All this information will be recreated and will match the new site as soon as
   the site owner goes through the Jetpack connection process on the new site. It’s
   consequently safe to delete these options when cloning a site.
 * That’d be great if this could be done automatically when cloning a site with 
   UpdraftPlus!
 *  [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dev-site/#post-6087419)
 * Thanks! One more thing – is this option always found in the ‘options’ table, 
   or will it be in the sitemeta table on multisite? (i.e. is it a per-site option,
   or per-install option?).
 * David
 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
 * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dev-site/#post-6087420)
 * It’s a per-site option.
 *  [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dev-site/#post-6087421)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks again. This is coded now and will be in the next release.
 * David

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## Tags

 * [dev](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dev/)
 * [development site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/development-site/)
 * [tiled galleries](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tiled-galleries/)

 * 7 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-dev-site/#post-6087421)
 * Status: resolved