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# ErikH2000

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[WP STAGING - WordPress Backup, Restore & Migration] Staging –> Live](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/staging-live/)
 *  [ErikH2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erikh2000/)
 * (@erikh2000)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/staging-live/#post-6730605)
 * René, thanks for not getting frustrated with the criticism. I hope you will continue
   with WP Staging. There’s doesn’t seem to be a good simple WordPress plugin now
   that handles staging. Maybe with a little work, WP Staging will become the “default
   choice” for people. Also, I would happily pay money for WP Staging if it handled
   stage-to-prod in the same easy way as it does prod-to-stage. Good luck in your
   efforts!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[WP STAGING - WordPress Backup, Restore & Migration] Staging –> Live](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/staging-live/)
 *  [ErikH2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erikh2000/)
 * (@erikh2000)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/staging-live/#post-6730603)
 * My take on this is a little harsher…
 * While I’m reluctant to criticize free software, I think that the description 
   of the plugin is currently misleading and will cause trouble for people wanting
   to use it in a typical way. That typical way being… 1. Copy production to stage.(
   WORKS GREAT, THANK YOU SO MUCH!) 2. Make changes to stage. 3. Copy stage to production.(
   NOPE)
 * Now, I’ve just done steps 1 and 2. I was extremely pleased with how easily the
   software handled this. One programmer to another, I say, “nice job, Rene.” However,
   I just got to step 3 and see that there is no feature to handle stage-to-prod,
   and I’ve seen Rene’s advice to copy files over and use separate database migration
   tools to handle it. I’m fairly disappointed, because my entire hope was to find
   a tool that would keep me from needing to go into this, and the plugin description
   represents itself as making staging easy with no mention of the feature gap.
 * Stage-to-prod is not just a nice extra feature to have. It is the obvious complementary
   feature for prod-to-stage. You would not bother with creating a staging site 
   unless you intended to copy the changes back to prod–that use case is implied
   by the term “staging”. Not having stage-to-prod is like having backup software
   that doesn’t include restore. Or compression software that doesn’t include decompress.
 * It’s fine to create a free tool that just does prod-to-stage, and I’ve got no
   right to complain about it since it’s free. But Rene, you should really represent
   that the stage-to-prod feature is absent in the plugin description. Because otherwise,
   you are causing me to waste my time using your product.
 * Going back to fiddling with wp-config.php and phpMyAdmin scripts to get some 
   janky stage-to-prod working. sigh
 * -Erik

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