Bill Erickson

CultivateWP

<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In all cases, if a local file exists, it will be used in preference to the remote file.</p>


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.

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Adam Zieliński

Antonio Sejas

Bero

<p>With this plugin, you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create a copy of your site in a private WordPress Playground instance.</li>
<li>Test plugins from the WordPress plugin directory without actually installing them on your site.</li>
</ul>
<p>Your site is cloned in Playground by copying all the files and a database into WordPress Playground. It may sound scary, but your data stays safely with you and is <strong>not</strong> uploaded to any cloud service. Instead, your site’s data is shipped directly to your web browser where it stays only as long as you keep your browser tab open. That’s right! WordPress Playground runs a copy of your site directly on your device.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>Starting a sandbox</h4>
<ul>
<li>Open <code>/wp-admin/</code> on your site</li>
<li>Click on <em>Sandbox Site</em> in the <em>Tools</em> menu to load WordPress Playground with a copy of your site content</li>
</ul>
<h4>Testing a plugin</h4>
<ul>
<li>Open <code>/wp-admin/</code> on your site</li>
<li>Click on <em>Add Plugins</em> in the <em>Plugins</em> menu</li>
<li>Find a plugin you want to test</li>
<li>Click the <em>Preview Now</em> button</li>
<li>The plugin will be installed and activated in WordPress Playground with a copy of your site content</li>
</ul>
<h3>All features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Start a sandbox of your site</li>
<li>Preview a plugin installation from the WordPress.org repository</li>
<li>Export Playground snapshots using Tools > Export</li>
</ul>
<h3>Resources</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/playground-tools/tree/trunk/packages/playground" rel="nofollow ugc">Source code</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/playground" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Playground</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.github.io/wordpress-playground/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Playground repository</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For any issues or questions about the WordPress Playground plugin, please open a GitHub issue in the <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/playground-tools" rel="nofollow ugc">playground-tools</a> repository.</p>
<p><strong>This is an early preview to gather feedback and apply polish. This plugin isn’t yet a well-rounded and feature-complete solution.</strong></p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>The WordPress Playground Plugin is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0. This is a free software license that allows you to use, modify, and distribute the software, provided you adhere to its terms and conditions.</p>


Sandbox Site powered by Playground

Short description

Enables running a sandbox of your site using WordPress Playground (https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground)

BE Media from Production vs Sandbox Site powered by Playground