compare · staging and migration plugins

Loopress vs WP Staging and Duplicator.

Staging and migration plugins copy a whole site, database included. Loopress moves only the configuration and code you changed, and never the content.

	WP Staging and Duplicator	Loopress
Unit of change	A snapshot of the site, files and database	One file: a field group, a menu, a hook
Before pushing	No diff against the last copy	lps diff shows exactly what will change
Content	Copied along, so live edits can be overwritten	Never read into the repo, never written by a push
History	Backups, by date	Git history, with a PR per change
Undo	Restore a backup	Roll back one resource to its pre-push snapshot

Same task, both ways

Ship a new ACF field while orders keep coming in.

WP Staging and Duplicator

Clone production to staging
Add the field on staging
Push staging back, choosing which tables to include
Hope no order or comment landed in those tables since the clone

Loopress

$ lps acf diff --env production
$ lps acf push --env production

Pick WP Staging and Duplicator when

You need to clone a whole site, move it to a new host, or keep full backups. Loopress doesn't do any of that.

Pick Loopress when

You change the same site again and again, and want to ship a field group without touching the orders that came in since the last copy.

Or use both

Keep them for what Loopress doesn't do: full backups, cloning a site, moving to a new host. Use Loopress for the changes you make every week.

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