Shannon Black

Automates the entire process for migrating your wordpress install from a test/development/source to the live/destination domain. Also allows the ignoring of certain files/directories not needed to upload (e.g /cache, /.git, /.svn /.gitignore etc etc).
Here’s a list of what is accomplished during an automated deployment:
<ul>
<li>If supported, archives the entire wordpress installation for compressed upload</li>
<li>Checks the file permissions</li>
<li>Uploads either the archive or each individual file</li>
<li>An uploaded archive is then extracted server side</li>
<li>Uploading each individual file is maximized by upload speed by asynchronously uploading up to 10 files</li>
<li>You can choose to ignore a list of folders or files for the upload – example cache folder or repository folders</li>
<li>Dumps/Exports your entire database and uploads it to the live server</li>
<li>Automatically switches old URL with the new URL</li>
<li>Automatically updates the wp-config.php accordingly</li>
<li>Flushes wordpress rewrite rules</li>
</ul>
If you are scared about the automated transfer and wish to do it manually, then just download the MySQL dump with the updated URL.
Disclaimer: Please backup any files or mysql tables on the live server. Although Live Server Deploy aims to provide a seamless deploy, we cannot guarantee that nothing unexpected can happen that might damage your content. Use at own risk.

WP Live Server Deploy

Automates the entire process for migrating your wordpress install from a test/development/source server to the live/destination server.

Andrew Skochelias

Pavlo Kotula

WordPress changelog – logs any uploads, updates, installations/uninstallations, activations/deactivations of themes, plugins and WordPress core. 
It could be helpful to easily find out the moment when something went wrong with your site and quickly fix the issue.
The plugin logs such actions: 
* Theme installation 
* Theme update 
* Theme activation 
* Theme deactivation 
* Theme removal 
* Plugin installation 
* Plugin update 
* Plugin activation 
* Plugin deactivation 
* Plugin removal 
* Translation update 
* WordPress update 
* WordPress reinstall

WordPress Changelog

It is a very handy plugin in a case when there a lot of people are working on the project. So you can track when and what was updated or installed. And with help of this plugin, you can quickly find out what caused any issues.

Useful plugin

WordPress changelog - logs any uploads, updates, installations/uninstallations, activations/deactivations of themes, plugins and WordPress core.

WP Live Server Deploy vs WordPress Changelog