Meet Studio Sync for WordPress.com

Studio, our free and open source local WordPress development application on MacOS and Windows, is now seamlessly integrated with WordPress.com.

We’re the new ones Studio Sync The feature gives Studio users a quick and simple way to:

1. Sync their local site with their WordPress.com hosted site for easy development and deployment; And,
2. Bring your local site to life 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 easier.

Seamless synchronization between local and production

Studio Sync makes publishing your local WordPress site easy with powerful WordPress.com hosting. Here are some of our favorite use cases:

• Push and Pull Easily: You can keep your local Studio site connected to your WordPress.com site, so pushing or pulling is as easy as clicking a button.
• Flexible Sync: Having complete freedom, you can connect your 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 a staging site is part of your development workflow, you can now easily push from your local Studio site to your WordPress.com staging site.
• One Click Happiness: No need to worry about database dumps, manually syncing files via SFTP, or performing other monotonous manual steps. Sync your local and hosted sites anytime with just one click.

Connect your site

You can connect any WordPress.com site with the Business plan or higher. Use the built-in search to find your site and quickly see if it has a staging environment available.

Push and pull

Pull to sync your WordPress.com site changes with your local Studio site, or press to propagate 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 the world to see?

Just click Connect the site on the Sync tab, then you’ll see the option to purchase a new hosting plan for your Studio site on 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:

1. Download and install Studio––it’s free on Windows and Mac.
2. Sign in with your WordPress.com account.
3. Create a new Studio site.
4. Click on the Sync tab.
5. Connect your site.
6. Push changes to production or pull production to the Studio app.

Tell us what you think

We’d love to hear your thoughts on how this new Studio Sync feature will speed up your local development work.

As a reminder, Studio is a free and open source tool, so we welcome any feedback on GitHub. Explore other Issues and create your own Issues here.

You can also explore the documentation for more tips on how to use this new Sync feature.