Bill Erickson

CultivateWP

When spinning up a staging or local development environment, you might not need the full uploads directory, but you also don’t want to see broken images throughout the site.
This plugin lets you use the production server for missing media. Define the production URL using a wp-config.php constant BE_MEDIA_FROM_PRODUCTION_URL or filter be_media_from_production_url.
In all cases, if a local file exists, it will be used in preference to the remote file.

BE Media from Production

We are using the plugin from GitHub for quite some time. Now it will be even easier, great work!

Awesome!

Sites that heavily rely on media were painfully to maintain. Not only did I have to get the local database in sync on my development machine, but also the media to get a good picture of how the site will look after a new feature I added. With this plugin this becomes a breeze as I do not have to download all media to my local machine anymore. This saves time and diskspace. Thank you Bill for this awesome plugin.

Makes maintaining sites a breeze

Just a really great complement to localhost development, especially since pretty much every backup/export utility allows excluding certain directories, like wp-content/uploads

Many thanks!

So glad I found this

Incredibly useful plugin when doing local development work on sites with huge media libraries, when you don't want to fill up your local hard drive with or spend time syncing with your remote site.

Very useful, works perfectly

For developers - Uses local media when available, and uses the production server for the rest.

nwells

Too many plugins installed to do basic things? This plugin tries to bring some common ones into one plugin to make life that little bit easier.
Current functionality
<ul>
<li>Identify the production URL so as to apply specific logic or hooks depending on which environment the site is in</li>
<li>Block visitors to the staging site based on IP or by using a specific cookie – great for showing clients but not the world</li>
<li>Find & replace functionality – great for changing from a staging URL to a production URL</li>
<li>Auto 301 redirect to the site domain for WordPress – useful to ensure everyone is using the correct path i.e. with www (or not) and https (or not)</li>
<li>Add additional classes to the main body tag to easily target device and operating system i.e. iOS, Android, Chrome, etc…</li>
<li>Sitemap generator to display a list of pages (or any post type) on the site as well as offering the ability to exclude pages</li>
<li>WooCommerce settings to disable categories list on single product page, remove reviews tab, remove product count on categories</li>
<li>When using Visual Composer you can automatically load in any PHP files that make use of vc_map() within your theme</li>
<li>When using Gravity Forms & Bootstrap all correct classes will be applied to input boxes and buttons. Also, a new field type is added to add columns to forms as well as placing the submit button wherever you like</li>
<li>Gravity Forms confirmation message appear underneath any fixed header when using AJAX. This hook allows you to scroll to the correct position based on the header</li>
<li>Can specify a stylesheet that you want to appear last in the enqueue – useful for overwriting parent themes or other plugins</li>
<li>YouTube embedded videos can have the title, related videos, and controls switched off</li>
<li>Change the sender name and email address for emails sent</li>
<li>Short code for displaying the current year – useful for keeping copyright notices up-to-date</li>
<li>WooCommerce template tweaks for improved usability when using the Jupiter theme</li>
<li>Set parent hierarchy pages as place holders so they don’t provide links in menus to empty pages</li>
<li>Simple short code for the current page title – useful to add in to links</li>
<li>Disable certain notifications for admin</li>
<li>Added Relevanssi support for XforWooCommerce filter plugin when AJAX is in use</li>
</ul>
Coming soon
<ul>
<li>Drag & drop page re-ordering</li>
<li>Improve noindexing on WooCommerce hidden products as well as ensuring the don’t appear in sitemaps both HTML & XML</li>
<li>Auto hide a page from any menu when its status is no longer published</li>
<li>Additional default settings for Visual Composer to make it easier to extend and remove built in elements & templates</li>
<li>More to come!</li>
</ul>

Apex Digital Toolbox

Too many plugins installed to do basic things? Bring some common functions ones into one plugin to make life that little bit easier for developers.

BE Media from Production vs Apex Digital Toolbox