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Studio Sync

The Studio Sync feature allows you to synchronize a production or staging site with your WordPress Studio sites in either direction. This feature is available for all WordPress.com sites on the Business or Commerce plan, and Pressable sites with Jetpack enabled. This guide explains how to connect, pull, and push sites using Studio Sync.

This feature is available on sites with the WordPress.com Business or Commerce plan. If you have a Business plan, make sure to activate it. Commerce plan sites are automatically activated. For sites on the Free, Pro (legacy), Personal, and Premium plans, upgrade your plan to access this feature.

Compatible sites

Studio Sync and Jetpack Backups

Studio Sync relies on Jetpack Backups to operate. To enable this, your site must have one of the following plugins activated and connected to WordPress.com:

  • VaultPress Backup
  • Jetpack Security
  • Jetpack Complete

Studio Sync supports sites up to 2GB in size. If your site exceeds this limit, you’ll see a warning in the app. You can still sync specific portions of your site (see below) as long as the total size of the selected content is under 2GB.

WordPress.com sites

Business and higher plans include a Jetpack Complete license, which is automatically activated by default. There is nothing more you need to do.

Pressable sites

The Jetpack Security plugin is included on Pressable sites, but you’ll need to activate and connect it manually. To sync a Pressable site with WordPress Studio, make sure you use the same WordPress.com account in both Studio and Jetpack on the Pressable site. If the accounts don’t match, the site won’t appear as an option to connect in Studio.

For detailed instructions how how to use Studio with Pressable sites, please refer to the Pressable documentation.

Connect WordPress Studio to an existing WordPress.com site

You can connect your Studio sites with any WordPress.com-hosted sites for which you are an Administrator and synchronize the content in either direction. Studio will save the connection details, so you can easily pull your site from WordPress.com and then push the changes you made in Studio back to the original site.

To connect a local Studio site to an existing production or staging site on WordPress.com:

  1. Select the site you wish to connect from the Studio sidebar.
  2. Open the Sync tab.
  3. Log in to WordPress.com if you haven’t already.
  4. Click the “Connect site” button to see available sites.
  5. Select the site you want to connect to and confirm by clicking the Connect button.