Nick-B
August 3, 2024, 1:59pm
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We have a separate Feature Request for Bluehost here:
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We have been considering alternative solutions to “bake” into Local to help make moving sites to other hosts easier. I’ll also mention that Local has an open add on concept. So technically other hosts or devs are free to make a Connect add on if they so choose but to date none have reached out to our teams about this. Some related comments from us here on a similar request for Cloudways.
Hi @gosixl and other Cloudways users open add-on concept, so any host could build a connect add-on if they desired. We don’t have any documentation specific to building a Connect add-on, so development could be tricky and require a lot of back and forth and troubleshooting. To date, no other hosts have ever contacted us about building something like this out. Many popular WordPress hosts out there instead have tried to come up with or improve their own …
Hey @gosixl - I appreciate the feedback!
Can I ask you to expand on this:
Suggesting WP Migrate (Another WPEngine product) is not an alternative!
Why is that? Is it just the cost of the plugin?
I’m not making any promises or speaking to future roadmap items - speaking in hypotheticals. But if Local allowed users to push to another host, powered by WP Migrate, for free, is that a valid alternative?
I’m just trying to understand if the cost is the issue or there are actual problems with the…