Allow manually marking sites as Production or Staging

It would be very useful to have the ability to manually define whether a site is a Production or Staging site in MainWP.

Currently, the MainWP Staging extension creates a “Staging Sites” tag, and sites can be manually added to that tag. However, this does not affect the Production / Staging filter in the Updates section. A site manually added to the Staging Sites tag still does not appear when selecting Staging from the Updates page dropdown.

I manage several staging sites that are not created through WP Staging or another staging integration, so MainWP cannot automatically detect them as staging environments.

It would be helpful to have a setting in each site's configuration, for example:

Site type

  • Production

  • Staging

Automatic detection could remain the default, while this setting could allow users to manually override or define the site type when needed.

The manually selected type should then be respected throughout MainWP, particularly by the Production / Staging filters on the Updates page.

This would make the Production/Staging functionality useful for staging environments regardless of how they were created.

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In Review

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Core Requests (Dashboard/Child)

Date

About 13 hours ago

Author

Kevin

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