Easy Staging Migration by Gami
Easy Staging Migration by Gami gives WordPress sites a practical staging and backup workflow:
- Create a staging copy from production.
- Migrate a development or local WordPress backup into staging when the work starts outside production.
- Review updates, design changes, plugin changes, or content edits on staging.
- Keep backups available before important work.
- Use release previews to understand what would change, then publish reviewed staging changes when ready.
The plugin runs without an account or remote service. It handles production-to-staging sync, development-to-staging migration, backups, scheduled backups, imports, dry-runs, staging-to-production publishing, and safety checks.
View screenshots: https://wp-simple-staging.gami.jp/en#screenshots
Watch a short walkthrough video: https://wp-simple-staging.gami.jp/en#demo
Included features
Included features:
- One-button production-to-staging sync.
- Development, local, or test-site backup import into staging.
- Protected staging directories with Basic Auth, noindex rules, robots.txt, and staging-only safety guards.
- Complete manual backups before important work.
- Scheduled backups through WP-Cron.
- Backup restore, download, delete, and keep actions.
- Separate Migration menu for backup import and export workflows.
- PUSH menu for plugin, core, and full-site release presets.
- Dry-runs and live release operations for files, database tables, plugins, core files, and full-site release scope.
- Difference review before overwrite workflows so changed posts, pages, and related content can be checked before a target is replaced.
- Advanced mode for scoped file and database previews or releases.
- Progress indicators for long-running Get and release actions.
- Operation locks and preflight checks.
- WP-CLI commands for large jobs.
- Support diagnostics that are sent only when an administrator chooses to send them or enables automatic error reports.
Advanced mode
Most sites can use the main Get workflow, PUSH menu, Migration menu, and Backup menu. When you need more control, Advanced mode lets an administrator review smaller scopes and publish them after explicit confirmations:
- File change previews and file release operations.
- Database table previews and table release operations.
- The PUSH menu provides plugin, core, and full-site release presets.
- High-risk table warnings.
- Operation locks for long-running jobs.
Release actions are previews by default. Live production releases require a backup confirmation, a confirmation checkbox, and a typed phrase.
Difference review and merge choices
Before a GET refresh or production publishing workflow overwrites a target, the plugin can show changed posts, pages, media items, and custom post types that need review. Administrators can cancel the operation, continue with the source version, or preserve selected target content items where the workflow supports it.
The review groups related custom fields, terms, and comments into the affected content item so the choice stays understandable. Full-table and plugin-specific data can still be broad in scope, so keep backups available before release work.
Backups
Backups are included in the plugin.
You can create a complete backup before important work, restore from backup data, download exports, protect important backups from retention cleanup, and configure scheduled backups. Use the Migration menu for import and export workflows when moving a site between environments.
This does not replace host-level or off-server backups. Keep host backups available before important releases.
Privacy
Easy Staging Migration by Gami stores plugin settings, operation history, and managed backup metadata locally in WordPress. Managed backups are stored on the server and can contain site files and database tables selected by an administrator.
Support reports are not sent by default. When an administrator sends a report or enables automatic error reports, safe diagnostics can be sent to the configured support recipient. The plugin is designed to exclude secrets and table contents from those diagnostics.