WordPress staging plugins

Migrate, staging, backup WordPress, all in one.

Backup, restore, staging, and migration for WordPress. Create full-site backups and test updates safely. 100% Unit Tested.

Backup, migrate, and create staging sites with free cloud storage and support.

Secure incremental backups with staging, migration, and one-click restore for WordPress. Offsite storage and easy recovery.

Create a staging WordPress site from production (live site). Ideal for testing updates, version change or re-write. Sync back only the changes.

Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule is an automated incremental backup plugin that backs up your website changes as per your schedule to Dropbox, Go …

Draft up revisions of live, published content. The live content doesn't change until you publish the revision manually or with the scheduling sys …

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

Displays WordPress 5.5's environment type setting in the admin bar and the "At a Glance" dashboard widget.

Force a single admin color scheme for all users of the site.

Use custom admin bar colors and favicons to differentiate your environments (staging/prod)

Use short codes to dynamically link to your WordPress pages and posts. All you need is the ID. This can come in handy when developing content for Word …

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.

Plugin allows you to install any plugin from a URL. All you need to do is to insert a specific URL and click the Install button.

Easily redirect visitors to a maintenance mode page or external URL while keeping access for logged-in administrators.

Quickly and easily password protect a site to keep it from the prying eyes of google.

Notifies the admin by email as soon as a user has successfully logged in. The mails are customizable, the plugin is completely translatable.

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

Static site generator using Git for storage. Comes with free integrated Git + Pages solution including Live WebStats.

Display your environment and debug info in the toolbar.

DEV Theme

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

Allows you to have a fully functioning development Staging Site or Multisite that you can individually Push to Live when ready.

This plugin convert absolute URLs in relative URLs.

WPEngine is a fantastic Wordpress hosting provider with an absolutely fantastic function - the one click staging environment.

Instant staging of your WordPress Site.

This one of a kind tool plugin with debug mode build in, helps you as an admin to efficiently give security and manage your backend.

Plugin that allows you to trigger a Jenkins hook straight from the Wordpress interface. This is intended for end-users to trigger a "push" f …

Safely copy your WordPress, WooCommerce, and membership site between production and staging.

Simplify the process of deploying a website. If you ever worked on a Wordpress site on a local environment, you know how frustrating it can be to move …

A wordpress plugin that implements an API framework for you to control and manage one or many Wordpress sites from a central location.

Let your team (or future self) know whether or not it's cool to overwrite an existing staging site on WP Engine

Only Admins is a minimal plugin that restricts your entire WordPress site to Admins.

Simplest admin bar indicator created by Weblings, to easily recognise whether you are in Development, Staging or Live environment.

This plugin allows you to reference all media content from your live site.

Push and pull individual posts between WordPress environments.

The Fastest & Easiest Way To Keep Your Staging Site Synced With New Content From Your Live Site.

Gives you the option to define which plugins must be active for a particular environment only.

A plugin to prevent certain users from logging into the back-end in the LIVE environment. You can let your users edit staging but not live.

This is a plugin that pushes a single post or page to an external site via the REST API

Restrict your site from the public while it's in development, staging or maintenance mode.

Give the user a visual reminder that he or she is on a wp-engine staging environment.

Runtime media path replacement, used for generate sample images on front side, without any db changes

This plugin will give you the option to add random label in the admin panel or on the front panel to indicate if this is staging (development) environ …

Simplify creation of WordPress Playground test, staging, and demo sites. Specify the theme, plugins and content from the WP admin dashboard.

Automatically rewind your WordPress website.

Prevent your WordPress website from being indexed by search engines when it's not on the live site.

Restrict site access with a simple URL code parameter and grant access using private link sharing. Ideal for sites in development or maintenance.

Displays a color-coded DEV, STAGING, or LIVE indicator in the admin bar to prevent accidental changes on production sites.

Blocks outgoing emails in development environments and logs them for review.

Prevent search engines from indexing staging sites by blocking or redirecting bots, with a clear admin warning banner.

A persistent, draggable badge that alerts users they're on a staging site. Inspired by Kabuki mie poses that demand attention.

Adds a fake payment method so you can test the full checkout flow without a real payment provider. Ideal for staging, QA and local development.

Automatically switches your favicon (site icon) between production and development environments to prevent confusion.