First: WOW – then: damn crap!

After working with another staging plugin I was surprised to find a free one which was extremly easy to use, very very fast with copying all the files and to see that the stanging site was actually working! And for the option to push your stanging site back to your production site you would have to pay with all other plugins. First I was very happy with WP Super Stage.

After completing my development work and pushed back to live site I noticed some issues. I have many tables made with WP datatables and tablepress inside my posts. And those contain a lot of images, buttons and links – and they still had the URL of the staging site stored – thus none of the images were displayed and none of the links or buttons worked on my live-site. I had to correct all those image- and link-URLs by hand.

After deactivating WP Super Stage I also had to remove all the staging files, folders and database tables from my site manually.

Be warned! If you don’t have any URLs stored inside other objects (e.g. tables) and if you have no problem with removing all the staging traces after deactivating the plugin, then you might be happy with this plugin. Otherwise stay away!