instawp-connect

InstaWP Connect – 1-click WP Staging & Migration

Create a staging WordPress site from production (live site). Ideal for testing updates, version change or re-write. Sync back only the changes.

34.6 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

40.0Kactive installs

2.5Mdownloads

4.5rating

0unresolved threads

3complaints analyzed

9praise analyzed

Proof Health

Open evidence

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Download Momentum

180 days

120.2Krecent 30 days 79.6Kprevious 30 days 51.0%movement 692.9Kshown total

Related Opportunities

5 markets

Commercial opportunity Clone: Migration and recovery assurance migration and recovery assurance · final 76.6 · proof validated Commercial opportunity Staging: Hosting operations and site health hosting operations and site health · final 59.4 · proof validated Commercial opportunity Migrate: Migration and recovery assurance migration and recovery assurance · final 78.8 · proof validated Commercial opportunity Restore: Migration and recovery assurance migration and recovery assurance · final 63.4 · proof validated Needs sharper proof Migration & Recovery Assurance for WordPress (preflight + verified restores) migration and recovery assurance · final 68.0 · proof validated

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer

mixed review · high severity · relevance 0.98

I quite like the UI/UX – but is it the appropriate solution for YOU?

I quite like the UI/UX – but is it the appropriate solution for YOU?: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

Proof Blocked card complete migration and recovery assurance Evidence linked to opportunity

But as explained below I have chosen to stop using the plugin due to security risks and the fact that I consider it better to 1) use staging sites from my regular hosting providers, 2) use backup/restore functionality from UpdraftPlus (or another focused backup provider) that I already use and 3) to give easy access to my sites when needed, with the excellen

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95

PHP Fatal Error During Upload

PHP Fatal Error During Upload: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

Proof Blocked card complete migration and recovery assurance Evidence linked to opportunity

PHP Fatal Error During Upload I get the following error after the backup is made, the site is created on my InstaWP account and the upload starts.

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.94

Fatal error on activation

Fatal error on activation: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

Proof Blocked card complete migration and recovery assurance Evidence linked to opportunity

Fatal error on activation Warning: require_once(/home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/instawp-connect/includes/class-instawp-rest-api.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/instawp-connect/includes/class-instawp-rest-apis.php on line 26 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required ‘

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.94

Cannot get it to work

Cannot get it to work: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

Proof Blocked card complete migration and recovery assurance Evidence linked to opportunity

Like another support post, I either get the InstaWP white-screen-of-inactivity “Creating a Staging Site”, or it looks like the task completed after an hour of creating the staging site but the only thing that shows up in the InstaWP Sites is: “ Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

question support · high severity · relevance 0.71

How to Disable Plugins on Staging

How to Disable Plugins on Staging: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

Proof Blocked card complete migration and recovery assurance Evidence linked to opportunity

However, I can not login due to recaptcha being enabled for the original domain.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87

Paid $2, Staging Hanging,

Paid $2, Staging Hanging,: users show bugs, missing feature, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

Proof Blocked card complete migration and recovery assurance Evidence linked to opportunity

Paid $2, Staging Hanging, Why?

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85

Bugs and Issues

Bugs and Issues: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

Proof Blocked card complete migration and recovery assurance Evidence linked to opportunity

Bugs and Issues There are two PHP warnings caused by missing files in this plugin: include(/home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/instawp-connect/vendor/composer/../instawp/connect-helpers/src/FileManager.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory include(): Failed opening '/home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/instawp-connect/vendor/composer/../ins

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85

Conflicts with WPVivid Baclup

Conflicts with WPVivid Baclup: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

Proof Blocked card complete migration and recovery assurance Evidence linked to opportunity

Conflicts with WPVivid Baclup As soon as I activate this plugin I instantly receive two warnings and an error.

complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.81

This does not work for me

This does not work for me: users show bugs, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

Proof Blocked card complete migration and recovery assurance Evidence linked to opportunity

This does not work for me I have tried this plugin to create staging sites on 2 different websites – neither of them worked.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.79

i have a plugin error

i have a plugin error: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

Proof Blocked card complete migration and recovery assurance Evidence linked to opportunity

i have a plugin error here is the error log : [19-Jul-2024 08:54:36 UTC] PHP Warning: openssl_encrypt(): Using an empty Initialization Vector (iv) is potentially insecure and not recommended in /home1/beingqge/brayzmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/instawp-connect/includes/class-instawp-tools.php on line 156 The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] he

Competitor Context

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Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth weak incumbent · intel 100.0 · weakness 84.2

weak incumbent

11 unresolved support thread(s) below-average rating support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts

source 1 source 2

Duplicator – Backups & Migration Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups, & More praise owner · intel 100.0 · weakness 51.9

praise owner

2 unresolved support thread(s) 5 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight database backup jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

source 1 source 2

WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging weak incumbent · intel 100.0 · weakness 65.6

weak incumbent

5 unresolved support thread(s) 17 collected complaint signal(s) migration support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight duplicate jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

source 1 source 2

Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone weak incumbent · intel 100.0 · weakness 55.4

weak incumbent

18 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight restore jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

source 1 source 2

BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin weak incumbent · intel 100.0 · weakness 61.9

weak incumbent

2 unresolved support thread(s) 13 collected complaint signal(s) support migration 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight restore jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

source 1 source 2

BlogVault Backup & Staging rising challenger · intel 100.0 · weakness 33.9

rising challenger

2 collected complaint signal(s) support compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

source 1 source 2

Total Upkeep – WordPress Backup Plugin plus Restore & Migrate by BoldGrid rising challenger · intel 100.0 · weakness 39.5

rising challenger

4 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight restore jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

source 1 source 2

WP Database Backup – Unlimited Database & Files Backup by Backup for WP rising challenger · intel 100.0 · weakness 49.9

rising challenger

7 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight database backup jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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Repeated Themes

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Collected Signals

20 shown from 29 collected

complaint Paid $2, Staging Hanging, support · 2025-08-03T03:32:21+00:00 · medium severity · backup

Paid $2, Staging Hanging,: users show bugs, missing feature, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Paid $2, Staging Hanging, Why?

bugs missing feature pricing support migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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question How to Disable Plugins on Staging support · 2024-08-23T22:54:44+00:00 · high severity · backup

How to Disable Plugins on Staging: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: However, I can not login due to recaptcha being enabled for the original domain.

security login migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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praise Great plugin ! (5 stars) review · 2024-08-08T07:35:39+00:00 · medium severity · backup

Great plugin !: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great plugin !

missing feature setup easy quality migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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mixed i have a plugin error support · 2024-08-01T03:58:07+00:00 · medium severity · backup

i have a plugin error: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: i have a plugin error here is the error log : [19-Jul-2024 08:54:36 UTC] PHP Warning: openssl_encrypt(): Using an empty Initialization Vector (iv) is potentially insecure and not recommended in /home1/beingqge/brayzmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/instawp-connect/includes/class-instawp-tools.php on line 156 The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] he

bugs compatibility missing feature support migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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mixed Not working in LocalWP support · 2024-07-13T11:24:04+00:00 · medium severity · backup

Not working in LocalWP: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: So, you promised, the plugin is good for migrating from LocalWP, but this guide simply does not work, this ui does not exist, there is a text instead “Run the following command on the root folder of your Local website.

bugs missing feature support migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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mixed Bugs and Issues support · 2024-07-08T13:14:53+00:00 · medium severity · backup

Bugs and Issues: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Bugs and Issues There are two PHP warnings caused by missing files in this plugin: include(/home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/instawp-connect/vendor/composer/../instawp/connect-helpers/src/FileManager.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory include(): Failed opening '/home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/instawp-connect/vendor/composer/../ins

bugs compatibility performance missing feature migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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praise Just What I Needed! (5 stars) review · 2024-04-26T18:09:22+00:00 · medium severity · backup

Just What I Needed!: users show pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Needed a headache-free staging platform and a way to push to live.

pricing support value migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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praise Really helpful for creating sites fast (5 stars) review · 2024-03-26T19:11:37+00:00 · medium severity · backup

Really helpful for creating sites fast: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Really helpful for creating sites fast Overall, its a great tool abd has much potebtial.

missing feature support performance migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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mixed Testing the plugin – Feedback – support · 2024-02-13T10:13:07+00:00 · low severity · backup

Testing the plugin – Feedback –: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: After having activated the plugin it goes to the Installed screen.

missing feature support setup value migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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mixed Multisite? support · 2024-02-09T09:05:09+00:00 · medium severity · backup

Multisite?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Have a great weekend!

support reliable quality migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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mixed I quite like the UI/UX – but is it the appropriate solution for YOU? (3 stars) review · 2023-12-14T15:34:33+00:00 · high severity · backup

I quite like the UI/UX – but is it the appropriate solution for YOU?: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: But as explained below I have chosen to stop using the plugin due to security risks and the fact that I consider it better to 1) use staging sites from my regular hosting providers, 2) use backup/restore functionality from UpdraftPlus (or another focused backup provider) that I already use and 3) to give easy access to my sites when needed, with the excellen

security bugs compatibility performance migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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complaint This does not work for me (1 star) review · 2023-11-07T10:45:53+00:00 · medium severity · backup

This does not work for me: users show bugs, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This does not work for me I have tried this plugin to create staging sites on 2 different websites – neither of them worked.

bugs pricing support easy migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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praise Perfect tool and plugin for support/testing and development (5 stars) review · 2023-11-02T13:45:29+00:00 · medium severity · backup

Perfect tool and plugin for support/testing and development: users show performance, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Perfect tool and plugin for support/testing and development I have been using InstaWP services for a few months now, and I cannot simply imagine life without it.

performance missing feature support easy migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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praise Un servicio perfecto para probar WordPress! (5 stars) review · 2023-10-20T21:12:20+00:00 · medium severity · backup

Un servicio perfecto para probar WordPress!: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Un servicio perfecto para probar WordPress!

quality migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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mixed Using Insta WP for Staging your website content support · 2023-10-01T14:21:25+00:00 · medium severity · backup

Using Insta WP for Staging your website content: users show support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] I already have a WordPress Website.

support migration reliable migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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mixed Improve I18N Issues (Based on 0.0.9.30) support · 2023-09-09T03:36:04+00:00 · medium severity · backup

Improve I18N Issues (Based on 0.0.9.30): users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Improve I18N Issues (Based on 0.0.9.30) I found several I18N issues and I made some modifications to improve these issues.

bugs value migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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praise Super usefull plugin and great support (5 stars) review · 2023-09-04T16:36:36+00:00 · medium severity · backup

Super usefull plugin and great support: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Super usefull plugin and great support This plugin is doing a great job duplicating temporaly your site for staging purpose.

bugs missing feature support reliable migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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mixed Multisite compatibility support · 2023-09-01T15:39:11+00:00 · medium severity · backup

Multisite compatibility: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Okay Thanks Will be looking forward to it Is that to say WordPress Multisite is not supported for staging?

support setup migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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mixed Fatal error on activation support · 2023-08-09T07:55:40+00:00 · high severity · backup

Fatal error on activation: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Fatal error on activation Warning: require_once(/home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/instawp-connect/includes/class-instawp-rest-api.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/instawp-connect/includes/class-instawp-rest-apis.php on line 26 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required ‘

bugs compatibility support setup migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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mixed You have reached your limit support · 2023-07-06T09:53:07+00:00 · medium severity · backup

You have reached your limit: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: You have reached your limit Hi, I would like to try a small staging with minimal options (no media) and it says: You have reached your limit.

bugs missing feature support migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight clone jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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