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 select? Like pushing the theme files alone would be wonderful. I do this now manually because it’s easier to just copy the theme files and upload them via FileZilla and far faster than pushing the entire site.
A selective push and pull would be wonderful.
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I’d like to second this. I have a database of hundreds and thousands of users. Sometimes I just want to create a new page/post (which is saved into the database) and to push that to staging, I would have to push my entire database.
It would be great if we could select specific folders and database tables to push.
Delicious Brains has a plugin that does exactly this, but it’s a premium plugin. And it would be great if we didn’t need to install a third party plugin just to push our site to Kinsta.
Agreed and subbing. This would be a nice feature (and friendly to Kinsta’s bandwidth).
Completely agree and I was surprised to learn that when I push staging to live all of the data for my affiliates (using Affiliate WP is updated). I’ve been in touch with support and this was their response:
I would suggest working with your developer on what process you should use, but ultimately I’m afraid you’ll have to re-add the registered affiliates manually. We don’t have a feature to exclude tables.
Here is the process I follow.
- Place LIve site in maintenance mode
- Export the registered affiliates.
- Import the registered affiliates in staging
- Push staging to live
This is 1) a real hassle 2) will inevitable be overlooked / forgotten once and that means the Affiliates will be far from happy.
Really need a solution for this Kinsta as it kills the value of your staging to live functionality stone dead.