# Feature Requests **URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/c/devkinsta/feature-requests/6.md [Latest](https://community.kinsta.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.kinsta.com/categories.md) --- ## [About the Feature Requests category](https://community.kinsta.com/t/about-the-feature-requests-category/14)
**Author:** [@tom](https://community.kinsta.com/u/tom)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2023, 8:53am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/about-the-feature-requests-category/14 "2023-01-09T08:53:59Z")
Have a great idea on improving DevKinsta? Let us know! Thanks for helping us improve DevKinsta! --- ## [Add "IP deny" under "sites" tab](https://community.kinsta.com/t/add-ip-deny-under-sites-tab/7574)
**Author:** [@gripen](https://community.kinsta.com/u/gripen)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2026, 4:10am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/add-ip-deny-under-sites-tab/7574 "2026-09-01T04:10:29Z")
I got some email about reset password from various sites. It should be done by some bad guy. Is is possible add “IP deny” under “sites” tab, in the “actions” submenu, such that I can block the IP for all sites at once --- ## [PHP 8.4 on DevKinsta?](https://community.kinsta.com/t/php-8-4-on-devkinsta/5916)
**Author:** [@psymeons](https://community.kinsta.com/u/psymeons)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/php-8-4-on-devkinsta/5916 "2026-08-28T14:09:41Z")
The documentation says that DevKinsta supports all PHP versions that Kinsta does. Kinsta added support for PHP 8.4 almost a year ago. However, currently the latest PHP version one can select in DevKinsta is PHP 8.3. … --- ## [Add Kinsta Dashboard Toggle to Block Public Access to .md Files](https://community.kinsta.com/t/add-kinsta-dashboard-toggle-to-block-public-access-to-md-files/7317)
**Author:** [@Olivier\_Bigras](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Olivier_Bigras)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2026, 6:02am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/add-kinsta-dashboard-toggle-to-block-public-access-to-md-files/7317 "2026-08-03T06:02:07Z")
Requesting a built-in toggle or setting within the MyKinsta dashboard (under Tools or Security) that allows site owners to block public HTTP access to Markdown (.md) files. Problem / Use Case: Modern development workfl… --- ## [Add Blueprints for new sites](https://community.kinsta.com/t/add-blueprints-for-new-sites/1229)
**Author:** [@thehungrybird](https://community.kinsta.com/u/thehungrybird)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/add-blueprints-for-new-sites/1229 "2025-11-26T04:25:10Z")
Please add the blueprints option so that we can just add our themes and plugins to that. So that we can immediately start working right after launching a website. --- ## [Support for Composer](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175)
**Author:** [@greghunt](https://community.kinsta.com/u/greghunt)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175 "2025-11-26T02:12:43Z")
Are there plans to build in composer? This is a pretty important feature for us since most of our themes manage packages with composer. We could use composer outside of the container but that would lead to potential vers… --- ## [SECURITY: Immediate notification when a plugin has security vulnerabilities](https://community.kinsta.com/t/security-immediate-notification-when-a-plugin-has-security-vulnerabilities/5541)
**Author:** [@bjoernzosel](https://community.kinsta.com/u/bjoernzosel)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 13, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/security-immediate-notification-when-a-plugin-has-security-vulnerabilities/5541 "2025-10-13T22:00:51Z")
Currently, you can set up to receive an email once a month if plugins have security vulnerabilities. This can lead to security risks. Plugins like Ninja Firewall send an email immediately for this reason. Since Kinsta is… --- ## [Switch from mailhog to mailpit](https://community.kinsta.com/t/switch-from-mailhog-to-mailpit/4486)
**Author:** [@ArjanSowmedia](https://community.kinsta.com/u/ArjanSowmedia)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/switch-from-mailhog-to-mailpit/4486 "2025-10-09T14:06:34Z")
Mailpit is the (spiritual) successor of mailhog. The mailhog project is dead and has a lot of issues: Issues · mailhog/MailHog · GitHub Mailpit is more lightweight and supports modern architectures like ARM natively --- ## [Copying values from php.ini editor](https://community.kinsta.com/t/copying-values-from-php-ini-editor/5424)
**Author:** [@Gelboron](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Gelboron)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/copying-values-from-php-ini-editor/5424 "2025-08-26T12:26:20Z")
When setting up xdebug on new sites, I usually copy the base php.ini config from some previous project. Pressing CMS-A & CMD-C (MacOS latest version) will also copy the line numbers which I then need to clean up befo… --- ## [Feature Request: Option to Install WordPress in Custom Subdirectory (e.g., /webroot)](https://community.kinsta.com/t/feature-request-option-to-install-wordpress-in-custom-subdirectory-e-g-webroot/5217)
**Author:** [@rene\_raadhuis](https://community.kinsta.com/u/rene_raadhuis)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2025, 6:59am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/feature-request-option-to-install-wordpress-in-custom-subdirectory-e-g-webroot/5217 "2025-06-27T06:59:41Z")
Hi DevKinsta team, We love using DevKinsta for developing and managing our WordPress websites locally—thanks for the great tool! We have a small feature request that would really streamline our workflow: Could you add… --- ## [Event Tracking Dashboard](https://community.kinsta.com/t/event-tracking-dashboard/4933)
**Author:** [@Elliott\_Mangham](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Elliott_Mangham)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2025, 6:07am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/event-tracking-dashboard/4933 "2025-06-05T06:07:11Z")
I would like to propose a unique and insightful feature for Kinsta: Event Tracking. Kinsta would monitor and log each time a custom event is triggered. A developer can invoke an event using JavaScript, HTML, or PHP. An … --- ## [Database Isolation](https://community.kinsta.com/t/database-isolation/4677)
**Author:** [@infinityweb](https://community.kinsta.com/u/infinityweb)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/database-isolation/4677 "2025-01-10T02:21:54Z")
Would be quite easy to create a user and grant permissions when each site is spun up? --- ## [Grouping of Redirect Rules](https://community.kinsta.com/t/grouping-of-redirect-rules/5060)
**Author:** [@Christopher\_Waddingt](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Christopher_Waddingt)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/grouping-of-redirect-rules/5060 "2025-05-12T21:50:05Z")
Hey it would be great if in the UI, there was a way to group bulk import redirect rules. Basically, when I view the redirects, if I could see folders of imported redirects by date or by a given title that would be aweso… --- ## [Xdebug Support: PHP debugging](https://community.kinsta.com/t/xdebug-support-php-debugging/71)
**Author:** [@okkins](https://community.kinsta.com/u/okkins)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/xdebug-support-php-debugging/71 "2024-03-02T05:10:35Z")
The title says it all. I wonder if PHP debugging is supported? --- ## [Exclude node\_modules from Import](https://community.kinsta.com/t/exclude-node-modules-from-import/227)
**Author:** [@ZachTheHack](https://community.kinsta.com/u/ZachTheHack)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/exclude-node-modules-from-import/227 "2025-03-03T00:00:14Z")
Is there a way to exclude certain files from being uploaded? Like when I’m developing locally, then wanna push it to staging, I don’t want node\_modules to get uploaded too. --- ## [Ability to push to Live but exclude a specific file(s)](https://community.kinsta.com/t/ability-to-push-to-live-but-exclude-a-specific-file-s/4750)
**Author:** [@WuDoo](https://community.kinsta.com/u/WuDoo)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/ability-to-push-to-live-but-exclude-a-specific-file-s/4750 "2025-02-27T02:18:25Z")
We love the Push stage to live feature, but we would like to exclude certain files when doing this, for example wp\_config that would keep some of our plugin “registrations” info for the Live site intact and not be overwr… --- ## [Symlink support still missing?](https://community.kinsta.com/t/symlink-support-still-missing/4001)
**Author:** [@jmele](https://community.kinsta.com/u/jmele)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/symlink-support-still-missing/4001 "2025-01-21T23:11:17Z")
I was going to post in the feature request but it was closed. There is still no support for symlinked plugins? --- ## [Ability to Ignore Development Files From Syncing](https://community.kinsta.com/t/ability-to-ignore-development-files-from-syncing/1044)
**Author:** [@deadband](https://community.kinsta.com/u/deadband)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/ability-to-ignore-development-files-from-syncing/1044 "2025-01-10T13:12:11Z")
The ability to exclude/ignore files used only for development would be a welcome addition. Giving the option to ignore items such as dot config files, node\_modules, package.json, etc. A similar request is posted here, bu… --- ## ["Use at least 5 characters" - Arbitrary limit on site name](https://community.kinsta.com/t/use-at-least-5-characters-arbitrary-limit-on-site-name/4141)
**Author:** [@EmSixTeen](https://community.kinsta.com/u/EmSixTeen)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 14, 2024, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/use-at-least-5-characters-arbitrary-limit-on-site-name/4141 "2024-10-14T14:06:07Z")
Hi there. Just downloaded DevKinsta to give it a go, and ran in to this issue on my first install. Why is there a minimum character limit of 5 characters for the site name? This seems arbitrarily imposed. Also, there’s… --- ## [Selective Push Options (and pull)](https://community.kinsta.com/t/selective-push-options-and-pull/673)
**Author:** [@Andrew\_Fair](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Andrew_Fair)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/selective-push-options-and-pull/673 "2024-07-09T22:32:47Z")
I shouldn’t have to upload my entire website every time I need to make an update. When you start getting 10GB and higher installations this is just not a good way of doing it. Can we simply upload the files that we sele… --- ## [NGINX activate the cache locally](https://community.kinsta.com/t/nginx-activate-the-cache-locally/3030)
**Author:** [@worldwildweb](https://community.kinsta.com/u/worldwildweb)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2024, 11:40am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/nginx-activate-the-cache-locally/3030 "2024-02-07T11:40:36Z")
--- ## [Make command line guest access easier](https://community.kinsta.com/t/make-command-line-guest-access-easier/2967)
**Author:** [@Green-Fox](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Green-Fox)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/make-command-line-guest-access-easier/2967 "2024-01-20T23:34:51Z")
There’s no obvious way in the DevKinsta UI that tells you how to get to a command line within a given site. I see some info on how to do this in the WP-CLI section of the DevKinsta manual, but it took me a while to find… --- ## [Custom Dev Setup using Kinsta Docker Images](https://community.kinsta.com/t/custom-dev-setup-using-kinsta-docker-images/2832)
**Author:** [@drazen](https://community.kinsta.com/u/drazen)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 15, 2023, 8:32am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/custom-dev-setup-using-kinsta-docker-images/2832 "2023-12-15T08:32:15Z")
Hello everyone! I’m currently setting up a development environment for a new project we’re working on. At first I thought of using DevKinsta, but we decided against it. However, I found all of the Kinsta Docker Images … --- ## [Keep DevKinsta window size after close](https://community.kinsta.com/t/keep-devkinsta-window-size-after-close/2142)
**Author:** [@dw4y](https://community.kinsta.com/u/dw4y)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/keep-devkinsta-window-size-after-close/2142 "2023-11-16T14:38:32Z")
Hello ! Nothing much here but I’ve 50+ websites configured in DevKinsta and having to resize the (small) window each time I launch DevKinsta is frustrating a bit :wink: (I’m on MacOS 12) --- ## [Sorting, Filtering, or Ordering Sites on DevKinsta](https://community.kinsta.com/t/sorting-filtering-or-ordering-sites-on-devkinsta/598)
**Author:** [@onebigidea](https://community.kinsta.com/u/onebigidea)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/sorting-filtering-or-ordering-sites-on-devkinsta/598 "2023-11-15T01:45:23Z")
Now that I have an abundance of sites within devKinsta - the lack of organization is becoming problematic. It could be as simple as ordering the sites (by name?) or by tag ? Stacks? folders (e.g. by client) But it is g… --- ## [Ignore file for excluding files/folder from syncing in addition to manually selecting them](https://community.kinsta.com/t/ignore-file-for-excluding-files-folder-from-syncing-in-addition-to-manually-selecting-them/2651)
**Author:** [@sander](https://community.kinsta.com/u/sander)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2023, 11:33am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/ignore-file-for-excluding-files-folder-from-syncing-in-addition-to-manually-selecting-them/2651 "2023-11-01T11:33:44Z")
It would be nice if there was a way to manage a list of files and folders that we never want to sync (especially push) to Kinsta. I know about the option to manually deselect files and folders that I want to exclude, whi… --- ## [Open files from devkinsta on vsc](https://community.kinsta.com/t/open-files-from-devkinsta-on-vsc/2539)
**Author:** [@Gustavo\_Adolfo\_Ramir](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Gustavo_Adolfo_Ramir)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/open-files-from-devkinsta-on-vsc/2539 "2023-09-21T01:40:10Z")
I’m trying to open the code from devkinsta and it’s been impossible, it always throws errors at me. I’m on a PC with Windows 11 and WSL. The error that comes up when I try to run the code . command is the following: \<3\>W… --- ## [Symlinked plugin does not appear in Admin](https://community.kinsta.com/t/symlinked-plugin-does-not-appear-in-admin/209)
**Author:** [@iianev](https://community.kinsta.com/u/iianev)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2023, 11:30am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/symlinked-plugin-does-not-appear-in-admin/209 "2023-09-14T11:30:47Z")
Mac OSX 11 Created a symlink to a plugin, but it does not appear in Admin/Plugins When I copied the files, to KinstaDev, it worked. --- ## [Exclude folders from sync (no .git or cache folders)](https://community.kinsta.com/t/exclude-folders-from-sync-no-git-or-cache-folders/1657)
**Author:** [@philippstracker](https://community.kinsta.com/u/philippstracker)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2023, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/exclude-folders-from-sync-no-git-or-cache-folders/1657 "2023-07-13T12:29:31Z")
When using “Sync \> Push to Kinsta” the local .git folder is also uploaded to the staging site. That folder is huge in some projects and should not be uploaded for several reasons --- ## [Wordpress Version to install Custom Site has "No Data"](https://community.kinsta.com/t/wordpress-version-to-install-custom-site-has-no-data/2319)
**Author:** [@Alan\_Segal](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Alan_Segal)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2023, 8:23am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/wordpress-version-to-install-custom-site-has-no-data/2319 "2023-06-28T08:23:24Z")
Total Noob The DevKinsta.exe file has a version of 2.11.0.7043. I am trying to use DevKinsta offline. When I try and set up a custom web site (first one) it has a location for “Wordpress Version”. If I click the dow… [Next page](https://community.kinsta.com/c/devkinsta/feature-requests/6.md?page=1)