Studio, our free and open source local WordPress development app on MacOS and Windows, is now seamlessly integrated with WordPress.com.
Our new Studio Sync feature provides Studio users with a fast, simple way to:
- Synchronize their local sites with their WordPress.com-hosted sites for easy development and deployments; and,
- Take a local site live with a WordPress.com hosting plan in just a few clicks.
With Studio Sync, taking your WordPress site from local development to production has never been more streamlined.
Seamless syncing between local and prod
Studio Sync makes it simple to publish your local WordPress site with powerful WordPress.com hosting. Here are a few of our favorite use cases:
- Push and Pull with Ease: You can keep your local Studio sites connected to your WordPress.com site, so pushing or pulling will be as easy as clicking a button.
- Flexible Syncing: Having complete freedom, you can connect a WordPress.com site to multiple Studio sites.
- Team Collaboration: Multiple developers can connect a local Studio site to a shared WordPress.com site, making it easy to push and pull changes as a team.
- Sync To and From Staging: If using staging sites are part of your development workflow, you can now easily push from your local Studio site to your WordPress.com staging site.
- One-Click Bliss: No need to worry yourself with database dumps, manually syncing files over SFTP, or performing other monotonous manual steps. Synchronize your local and hosted sites at any time with just one click.
Connect your site
You can connect any of your WordPress.com sites on a Business plan or higher. Use built-in search to locate your site and quickly see if the site has a staging environment available.
Push and pull
Pull to synchronize your WordPress.com site changes with your local Studio site, or push to deploy your local Studio site changes to your WordPress.com site.
Launch your Studio site on WordPress.com
Ready to publish your local Studio site for all the world to see?
Simply click Connect site on the Sync tab, and then you’ll see an option to purchase a new hosting plan for your Studio site at WordPress.com.
Ready to get started with Studio Sync?
You can start taking advantage of this new Studio Sync feature in just a few steps:
- Download and install Studio––for free on Windows and Mac.
- Login with your WordPress.com account.
- Create a new Studio site.
- Click on the Sync tab.
- Connect your site.
- Push changes to production or pull production to the Studio app.
Let us know what you think
We’d love to hear how you think this new Studio Sync feature will speed up your local development work.
As a reminder, Studio is a free, open source tool, so we welcome any and all feedback in GitHub. Explore other Issues and create your own here.
You can also explore the documentation for more tips on using this new Sync feature.
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Wow, that looks amazing! Makes me want to upgrade to the business plan real bad 😂. I have to wait until I can afford it, though.
Great product, just want to ask you if it supports all hostings or just WordPress hosted website?
Currently, it supports sites hosted at WordPress.com. If you host your site elsewhere, you can still use Studio, as it has an Import / Export feature that allows you to export your site with the database.
The product has great potential, if you support all hosting where we can dynamically connect with website, and commit changes. It can be a game changer for those who struggle to migrate and backup the WordPress website.
It works really fast indeed! I believe it will be perfect easy to use tool for mid-technical teams, especially QA, PMs, Security, and so on.
One question. Is it possible to change port? It looks like the UI doesn’t allow it, maybe there is somewhere to config file perhaps?
Good question, Daniel! It’s impossible to customize the host or port yet. The Studio uses subsequent ports based on their availabilities, and when it picks a port for a site once, it continues using the same port.
However, we are exploring the possibility of allowing you to choose your local URL, see https://github.com/Automattic/studio/pull/755.
I have been testing this out this afternoon and I cannot get the WordPress.com login to work. When I click the link, it beings me to site and authorizes but it is not reflected in Studio at all. Any ideas?
Hi Paul! Thanks for giving it a test. After you are authorized with WordPress.com, your browser should ask you for permission to open the link in Studio. Could you let me know if you went ahead with this step? If you are still experiencing the problem, please open an issue in the GitHub repository, and we can follow up there.
You could create a gateway of your own. Gravatar is pretty cool, it takes a while to get setup the way you like, but just like wordpress, the tools are easy to use, and get working right. Github has a bunch of stuff too.
Cool stuff thank you for the domain help. I’m bearly making it and I have to make all these adjustments by myself. Thank you so much.
Great job but I have a question; I uploaded my existing backup with . wpress extension but the page is blank. The backup was taken from version 6.7 and the wordpress version installed on studio is 6.7.1 I think there was a version incompatibility. It would be better if we could select the version in studio.
Thanks for giving it a test! Feel free to open a GitHub issue in the Studio repository (https://github.com/Automattic/studio) and provide more details so we can check the issue.
As regards choosing the WordPress version, Studio doesn’t support it yet. But… you can ask the Assistant about it. It should provide a command that allows you to change the WordPress version.
Is there plans for Linux users in the future? Also, really like the idea/concept and curious to see where it goes. Would love to work with it!
There is no immediate plan for a Linux build yet. However, as Studio uses Electron, it should more or less work on Linux. Check out the Linux build instructions.