Title: Pull or push?
Last modified: February 17, 2023

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# Pull or push?

 *  Resolved [alexliii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexliii/)
 * (@alexliii)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-or-push/)
 * Hello,
 * It is really great plugin, and thanks.
 * However, when I am reading your official documentation at [https://wp-staging.com/docs/cloning-a-staging-site-testing-push-method/](https://wp-staging.com/docs/cloning-a-staging-site-testing-push-method/),
   I am confused by the term of “push”.
 * For instance
 * > **How to Push the Staging Site to the Production Site**
   >  1. Log in to your **production site**.
   >  2. Navigate to WP Staging PRO> Staging Sites > Click on the Action dropdown.
   >  3. Push the site “Staging” to the production site.
 * On the production site which will be overwritten by the staging site, right? 
   and we now being on the overwritten site, should the term “pull” be used?
 * From my understanding, if the overwritten acting is on staging site, that is 
   actually Push?
 * Or, did I misunderstand?
 * Thanks, and have a nice day.

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 *  Plugin Author [Rene Hermenau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renehermi/)
 * (@renehermi)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-or-push/#post-16481407)
 * Thanks for the kind words.
   The button “Push” means the selected staging site 
   will overwrite the site where you are logged in. So yes, a pull would be the 
   better term.I agree that this naming scheme can be confusing for first-time users.
   The term has historical reasons, and we hesitate to change it to not confuse 
   more than 100.000 active users of our free and pro versions by using a new scheme.
   If you have a better idea, please let me know:-)
 * By the way. You mentioned an article that explains how to clone and push an existing
   staging site. (I’ve extended this article to make it more clear.)
 * The regular article for pushing a staging site to the live site is this one:
   
   [https://wp-staging.com/docs/copy-staging-site-to-live-site/](https://wp-staging.com/docs/copy-staging-site-to-live-site/)
   Please read this one, and then hopefully it becomes more clear.
 *  Thread Starter [alexliii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexliii/)
 * (@alexliii)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-or-push/#post-16481668)
 * > The term has historical reasons, and we hesitate to change it to not confuse
   > more than 100.000 active users of our free and pro versions by using a new 
   > scheme.
 * Oh, I got it, thanks so much for your clarifing.
 * And I will definitely get myself to be familiar with your new article.
 * Have a nice day 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [alexliii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexliii/)
 * (@alexliii)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-or-push/#post-16481777)
 * Hello Again 🙂
 * I just check the video at [https://wp-staging.com/docs/copy-staging-site-to-live-site/](https://wp-staging.com/docs/copy-staging-site-to-live-site/),
   and I just want to have confirmation and make sure there is no misunderstanding:
 * 1# At the beginning of that video, you are on the production site, right?
 * 2# Before record the video, a Staging site-1 was already created, right?
 * 3# Opened the staging site on the live site, and made a change for demo(changed
   slide image).
 * 4# **Go back to the production site, push, and overwrite the production site 
   itself ???**
 * Is there any misunderstanding please?
 * Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [Rene Hermenau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renehermi/)
 * (@renehermi)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-or-push/#post-16482009)
 * [@alexliii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexliii/), as you are mentioning
   the pro version, could you please open support requests here [https://wp-staging.com/support/](https://wp-staging.com/support/)
   
   We will help you with your questions via our internal ticket system.
 * This forum is for the free version only and its against the wordpress.org terms
   to provide support for the pro version here.

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