WordPress staging to production, without cloning the whole site.
Full-site migration plugins copy everything (database, files, settings) every time you deploy. Migro pushes only the posts and pages you finished on staging to production, with media, taxonomies, and custom fields intact, and leaves the rest of the live site alone.
Cloning a site to ship one post is the wrong tool.
The classic staging-to-production routine (export the database, import it over production, hope nothing breaks) was designed for moving hosts, not for publishing content.
It overwrites everything
A full-site push replaces production wholesale. Comments, orders, form entries, and any post published since the last clone are gone, unless you remembered to sync them back first.
It freezes publishing
While staging and production drift apart, someone has to declare a content freeze on the live site. Editorial teams wait on infrastructure instead of shipping.
It risks the live site
Every full clone is a chance to break production: serialized data corrupts, URLs half-replace, plugin settings from staging leak into the live environment.
Selective deployment in three steps.
Migro connects your environments over the WordPress REST API. No database exports, no SQL, no downtime.
Connect staging and production
Install the free Migro plugin on both sites and pair them once from the settings screen. Connection credentials are encrypted before they touch the database.
Pick exactly what should move
Select a post, a page, a custom post type entry, or a whole taxonomy, or batch-select everything and migrate all your posts and pages in one run. Migro bundles the content with its featured image, embedded media, taxonomies, and custom fields, and nothing else.
Push (and re-push) safely
Click Push and the content goes live exactly as designed. Sync-key tracking means the next push of the same post updates it in place instead of duplicating it, and every overwrite is preceded by a local backup with one-click restore. Pull works the same way in reverse. Pro users get To Prod / From Prod buttons right on the post list.
What travels with every push.
Most tools move the post and strand its metadata. Migro carries the whole record across with referential integrity intact.
✓SEO fields
Yoast titles, meta descriptions, focus keywords, schema, and OG overrides arrive intact. Rankings don't reset on deploy.
✓ACF & custom fields
Repeaters, flexible content, relationships, and galleries are resolved and remapped on the destination.
✓Taxonomies
Categories, tags, and custom taxonomies with the full parent/child hierarchy preserved.
✓Media
Featured images and inline assets are uploaded, deduplicated, and attached to the right post on the far end.
✓Custom post types
Products, portfolios, testimonials: any CPT moves like a native post, with connected post IDs remapped correctly.
✓Page builder layouts
Elementor, Divi, Bricks, Oxygen, and more are detected automatically; Pro migrates their serialized layout data safely.
Moving your whole site to a new host? Migro isn't that tool.
Migro doesn't clone databases, themes, or server configuration. That's on purpose. For one-time infrastructure moves, use a full-site migration plugin like Duplicator or your host's migration service. Once staging and production both exist, Migro takes over the part you do every week: deploying finished content between them.
Staging-to-production questions.
Do I need Migro installed on both staging and production?
What happens if I push the same post twice?
Is it safe to push to a live production site?
Can I pull production content back into staging?
Can Migro migrate my whole site from staging to a new server?
Ship the post. Skip the clone.
Install the free plugin on staging and production and run your first selective deploy in under five minutes.