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InstaWP Connect Plugin

Enhance your WordPress website with the InstaWP Connect Plugin, enabling effortless 1-click staging from your WP admin panel. You can connect your live site with the InstaWP Connect plugin and create duplicate sites for development and testing within seconds. Speed up your WordPress staging process without any effort. Revolutionize your workflow with InstaWP Connect!

In this documentation, we will provide you with an overview of the InstaWP Connect as its native plugin.

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Auto-login to the WP Admin panel of your production (live) site and then add the InstaWP Connect plugin from the Plugin section. For more information, Add connect plugin to site document.



Features



The InstaWP Connect plugin has a number of features that let you expand or add to current functionality on your website, such as the following:

FeaturesDescription
Create StagingCreate full, custom, or quick staging sites (an exact copy of the live site) in your InstaWP dashboard. For more.
HeartbeatThe plugin communicates with InstaWP servers every 15 minutes to get updates, changes logged and synchronized. Disabling this feature will stop it. It takes an hour for it to take effect.
Remote Management (Beta)Manage your connected site from InstaWP dashboard via Remote Management options (File Manager, Database Manager, Plugin / Themes Installer).
2-way syncPush the changes from staging to live and vice-versa. For more.




The InstaWP Connect plugin's other functional settings before generating staging sites are as follows:

SettingsDescription
Maximum Allowed File SizeThe maximum upload file size that is allowed. Default - 50 MB.
Hide icon on topbarRemoves the InstaWP icon from the top admin bar, including the flashing icon.
Default userAllows you to set the default user for events syncing.
Sync Tab AccessAllows you to set roles for the sync tab, with only the assigned role's users able to access the syncing features.
Sync Events SettingsAllows plugin to log events related to all posts, pages, plugins or themes.
Reset PluginThe option of a hard reset will remove everything from this plugin, including the API key.




For more information InstaWP connect plugin, you can visit this link (It helps you manage your website remotely via a simple plugin installation).

💡 Did you know - You can create new WordPress instance (and destroy them, optionally) with InstaWP connect plugin installed, when creating a new Pull Request (PR) on your GitHub repository. Learn about Github actions.

Updated on: 20/06/2024

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