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.

Webmaster

PLX Multi-Environments manages separate Development, Staging, and Production environments directly from within the WordPress Admin screen.
Once the separate configuration files have been installed and your existing wp-config.php settings have been backed up 
you\’re then free to enter each of your environments database settings. When you push your files between servers you no 
longer need to edit the configuration.
Important: Although the plugin will automatically backup your current settings to wp-config.backup.php, we strongly recommend backing up 
your wp-config.php file before completing the plugin installation.

PLX Multi-Environments

Manage separate Development, Staging, and Production environments directly from the Wordpress Admin screen.

BE Media from Production vs PLX Multi-Environments