Actions and Filters

Developers can tweak WP Staging using its available actions and filters. This article documents the current hooks and shows example usage to customize the cloning and pushing process to your needs.

If it’s not additionally mentioned you need to add these sample code snippets into the functions.php of your active theme or into a custom plugin.

You find a custom plugin with all WP Staging hooks here:
https://github.com/rene-hermenau/wp-staging-hooks

(Red colored items need to be changed to your custom use case.)

Exclude Tables From Search & Replace operation

Use this if the search & replace process eats up a lot of your available memory and the cloning or pushing process failed with a ‘memory exhausted error‘.  You can also use this to improve the speed of the cloning and pushing process.

Exclude tables which do not need any search & replacement of any links! These can be tables which contains visitor stats, IP addresses or something similar. After excluding those tables you can increase the DB Search & Replace limit in WP Staging settings to a higher value to get better performance.

function wpstg_searchreplace_excl_tables($default){
$tables = array('_posts', '_postmeta'); 
return array_merge($default, $tables);
}
add_filter('wpstg_searchreplace_excl_tables','wpstg_searchreplace_excl_tables');

Cloning: Exclude Rows From Search & Replace in wp_options

function wpstg_clone_searchreplace_excl_rows($default){
$rows = array('siteurl', 'home'); 
return array_merge($default, $rows);
}
add_filter('wpstg_clone_searchreplace_excl_rows','wpstg_clone_searchreplace_excl_rows');

Cloning: Exclude Strings From Search & Replace

function wpstg_clone_searchreplace_excl(){
return array('blog.localhost.com','blog1.localhost.com');
}
add_filter('wpstg_clone_searchreplace_excl','wpstg_clone_searchreplace_excl');

Cloning: Change Search & Replace Parameters

function wpstg_cloning_custom_params($args){
      // Default values - Can be changed
         $args['search_for'] = array_merge(
         $args['search_for'],
         array('SEARCHSTRING', 'SEARCHSTRING')
         );
         $args['replace_with'] = array_merge(
         $args['replace_with'],
         array('REPLACESTRING','REPLACESTRING2')
       );
      $args['replace_guids'] = 'off'; 
      $args['dry_run'] = 'off'; 
      $args['case_insensitive'] = false;
      $args['replace_guids'] = 'off';
      $args['replace_mails'] = 'off';
      $args['skip_transients'] = 'on';
      return $args;
}
add_filter('wpstg_clone_searchreplace_params', 'wpstg_cloning_custom_params');

Cloning: Exclude Folders

function wpstg_exclude_folders_custom($args){
$folders = array('wordpress-seo', 'custom-folder');
     return array_merge($args, $folders);
}
add_filter('wpstg_clone_excl_folders', 'wpstg_exclude_folders_custom');

Cloning Multisite: Exclude Folders

**
* Excluded folders relative to the wp-content folder
*/
function wpstg_exclude_folders_custom($args){
$folders = array('plugins/wordpress-seo', 'themes/custom-folder');
     return array_merge($args, $folders);
}
add_filter('wpstg_clone_mu_excl_folders', 'wpstg_exclude_folders_custom');

Cloning: Do not Modify Table Prefix from option_name in wp_options

function wpstg_excl_option_name_custom($args){
$cols = array('wp_mail_smtp', 'wp_mail_smtp_version');
     return array_merge($args, $cols);
}
add_filter('wpstg_data_excl_rows', 'wpstg_excl_option_name_custom');

Pushing: Change Search & Replace parameters

function wpstg_push_custom_params($args){
      // Default values - Can be changed
         $args['search_for'] = array_merge(
         $args['search_for'],
         array('SEARCHSTRING', 'SEARCHSTRING2')
         );
         $args['replace_with'] = array_merge(
         $args['replace_with'],
         array('REPLACESTRING','REPLACESTRING2')
       );
      $args['replace_guids'] = 'off'; 
      $args['dry_run'] = 'off'; 
      $args['case_insensitive'] = false;
      $args['replace_guids'] = 'off';
      $args['replace_mails'] = 'off';
      $args['skip_transients'] = 'on';
      return $args;
}
add_filter('wpstg_push_searchreplace_params', 'wpstg_push_custom_params');

Pushing: Exclude tables from pushing

function wpstg_push_excluded_tables($tables){
$customTables = array('_options', '_posts'); 
return array_merge($tables, $customTables);
}
add_filter('wpstg_push_excluded_tables','wpstg_push_excluded_tables');

This excludes the tables wp_posts and wp_options from being pushed to the live site.

Pushing: Exclude folders from pushing

As default WP Staging pro does not iterate through nor does it push any of these folders to the production website:

‘cache’,
‘wps-hide-login’,
‘node_modules’,
‘nbproject’,
‘wp-staging’

You can add custom folders to this list by using the filter below:

function wpstg_push_directories_excl($default){
$dirs = array('custom-folder', 'custom-folder2'); 
return array_merge($default, $dirs);
}
add_filter('wpstg_push_excl_folders_custom','wpstg_push_directories_excl');

Pushing: Exclude files from pushing

As default WP Staging pro does not push any of these files to the production website:

‘.htaccess’,
‘.DS_Store’,
‘.git’,
‘.svn’,
‘.tmp’,
‘desktop.ini’,
‘.gitignore’,
‘.log’,
‘wp-staging-optimizer.php’

You can add custom files to this list by using the filter below:

function wpstg_push_excluded_files($default){
$files = array('custom-file', 'custom-file2'); 
return array_merge($default, $dirs);
}
add_filter('wpstg_push_excluded_files','wpstg_push_excluded_files');

Pushing: Preserve data in wp_options and exclude it from pushing

The example below preserves the value ‘siteurl’ .
Any number of additional options may be added.

function wpstg_push_options_excl($options){
$options[] = 'siteurl';
return $options;
}
add_filter('wpstg_preserved_options','wpstg_push_options_excl');