Whether you are a developer, business website owner, or anything in between, giving you full control of every aspect of your website is something we strive to do here at Kinsta.

Today, we are proud to announce the launch of our Selective Push feature, which gives Kinsta customers more control of what they can push from a staging environment to live.

What Is Selective Push?

Kinsta already offers a one-click WordPress staging environment feature that allows you to easily push changes you have made on your staging site directly to your live site, directly from the MyKinsta dashboard.

Thanks to the Selective Push feature, you’ll have more granular control on what you need to push live and, ultimately, be able to accomplish more. Thanks to this feature, you can choose to:

Before Selective Push, users had to push a site live in an “all or nothing” manner. Now, users can pick and choose what gets pushed and more freedom can be given to certain workflows.

How to Get Started

To access the Selective Push feature, log in to MyKinsta and click on Sites on the left-side menu.

From there, click on the Environment selector next to the site name:

Change to your WordPress staging environment in MyKinsta.
Change to your WordPress staging environment in MyKinsta.

After that, select the staging site you want to push to live and click on the Push Staging to Live button.

Push Staging to Live in MyKinsta with Selective Push.
Push Staging to Live in MyKinsta with Selective Push.

A modal window will appear.

From there, make the selections you want and push your site the way you want (you’ll be asked to type the site name to confirm):

Use Selective Push to push files from staging to live.
Use Selective Push to push files from staging to live.

That’s it!

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