Meet Studio Sync for WordPress.com

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

Our new Studio Sync feature provides Studio users with a fast, simple way to:

1. Synchronize their local sites with their WordPress.com-hosted sites for easy development and deployments; and,
2. Take a local site live 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 more streamlined.

Seamless syncing between local and prod

Studio Sync makes it simple to publish your local WordPress site with powerful WordPress.com hosting. Here are a few of our favorite use cases:

• Push and Pull with Ease: You can keep your local Studio sites connected to your WordPress.com site, so pushing or pulling will be as easy as clicking a button.
• Flexible Syncing: Having complete freedom, you can connect a 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 staging sites are part of your development workflow, you can now easily push from your local Studio site to your WordPress.com staging site.
• One-Click Bliss: No need to worry yourself with database dumps, manually syncing files over SFTP, or performing other monotonous manual steps. Synchronize your local and hosted sites at any time with just one click.

Connect your site

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

Push and pull

Pull to synchronize your WordPress.com site changes with your local Studio site, or push to deploy your local Studio site changes to your WordPress.com site.

Screenshot

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Launch your Studio site on WordPress.com

Ready to publish your local Studio site for all the world to see?

Simply click Connect site on the Sync tab, and then you’ll see an option to purchase a new hosting plan for your Studio site at 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––for free on Windows and Mac.
2. Login 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.

Let us know what you think

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

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

You can also explore the documentation for more tips on using this new Sync feature.