jatraddatz

Hi Tony,
Thank you for your advice. The problem is you are not understanding the main point or I have not explained myself properly.
I came across the WPVIVID pluggin in the WP_Crafter YouTube channel a few months ago.
Adam demonstrated using the plugin to move a WP site from environment to environment without having to edit any prefixes or starting PHP. His recommended local environment is Local by Flywheel.
When I copy my local site to production it works well. Site just comes up. I can logon to WP_admin and get to the dashboard. Yay Yay great.
When I copy the prod site to my local site the site works ie you can use it as a customer.
If you try to access WP-admin then you get the “you are not allowed to access this page”
It makes the plugin substandard, almost unusable. Apparently given the the words of WP-Crafter review it likely worked in a previous version 5 or 6 months ago. It seemed to have an option to change the DB prefixes automatically.
The import/export trick only works with static websites. If the website was capturing emails or was a membership site, the plugin would be unusable.
So maybe this is a feature request instead of a bug report.
Thank you for the plugin. What it does correctly it does well.

using wpvivid plugin

I don’t know how to access the site data bases etc if I cannot logon to wp-admin.
I have used an alternate method. The production website is static. I exported Posts & pages from the prod and imported them into the Flywheel site.
This has worked for me.

Thank you for your help.

Production WP_config.php $table_prefix = ‘wpcp_’;
local by Flywheel wp-config.php $table_prefix = ‘wp_’;$table_prefix = ‘wpcp_’;

I only used WPvivid to backup the complete site then used WPvivid to upload the backup & restore the site. Prod site had WordPress installed the WPvivid before doing the restore.

curious as to how it work dev => prod but not prod => dev

I will try it out soon