Duplicator alternative

Duplicator is a plugin in the site migration family, and a popular one with more than 1 million installs.

The concept is fairly simple. It generates a package with the files and database of a site, and makes it available for download as a backup or installer that can be used on another site.

It is a fairly easy process to understand and use. It is a solid plugin for that purpose.

But that ease of use also has a major flaw when you, as a developer, need to run multiple synchronizations over time. Duplicator always creates a full site package, which needs to be generated, moved and reinstalled every time. Very clever for one-off migrations, but hopelessly slow for multiple synchronizations.

E.g. If you have a production site and want to retrieve the database or some files 20 times over a period to a local development environment, Duplicator would not be a good choice.

WP Synchro as the alternative

WP Synchro is built to the exact needs of a WordPress developer, because it was built on the actual needs of a WordPress developer.

Instead of being designed to only move entire sites, it is designed to only move the needed database tables and files, with the needed search-and-replace operations.

The needed synchronizations are set up once and can be run multiple times. No more manual moving.
Data is streamed directly to or from the target site, without having to manually handle the data during transfer.

Duplicator is not a bad product at all. It is more of a backup/restore plugin and just not optimal for professional WordPress developers.

With the WP Synchro free version you can synchronize database content and with the PRO version, file synchronization is also supported.

Learn more about WP Synchro