Feature Ideas

Allow users to connect their plugin & theme license for 1-click activation on sites they are creating on InstaWP or migrating to a hosting provider.

Exporting static .zip for sites hosted on InstaWP.

It would be great if the website owner could disable all installed plugins. If any unexpected errors occur, this setting will assist users in recovering the website.

Facility to add Terminal, Server logs and (not sure how) Local folder sync.

Context: "View logs" pop-up of each website. Idea: Having two more buttons on the debug.log of each site - CLEAR and DELETE logs. CLEAR button - will only clear the current contents of the logs (visually), so that you can continue testing and therefore, generating new logs, and have an easy way of capturing ONLY each test/scenario's logs generated, while keeping the entire full log in the original /wp-content/debug.log file for later usage. DELETE logs button - this, will of course, simply delete all logs (including the debug.log file) , which of course will then show up again if it's generated and so on (this is what happens now, but I am using manual labor to go into "Code Editor", surf on /wp-content/ and manually remove debug.log each time, which is a bit frustrating.

You will be able to import a site using not just InstaWP Connect plugin way, but also by dropping files from backup plugins like Updraft, WPVivid etc. You can even drop zips of WordPress playground and LocalWP/DevKinsta etc. You will also be able to simply copy paste the site health configuration and auto-create a site with exact same config.

We use Laragon instead of LocalWP for our local installs. It would be great to be able to export for Laragon instead of LocalWP!

Many plugins allow license activation in wp-config. This saves time for the developer and is more secure than adding a license to the database, and preferable when possible when working on client sites. It would be useful to allow a code snippet to be auto inserted into wp-config in some way, either as part of a template or in another way in the InstaWP interface, that contains the custom code I use to activate some plugins. I would have this snippet already written and would just need a way to add it, ideally in some automated way.

It would be really cool to see a feature similar to WordPress playground where you can easily preview a pull request: https://playground.wordpress.net/wordpress.html Or rather, it would create a staging site from the pull request. WordPress playground still has some limitations. This could be a great way for more people to easily test things the WordPress team is working on and join in on the discussions.

Provide an option to take automated daily or weekly backups for InstaWP sites, this will help users recover sites if something goes wrong. Also an option to limit the automated backups to last X times.

Problem: I have 5 sites with a random name that were created a week ago. Now I don't remember why each one was created. Solutoin: A description field below the URL. I could explain the purpose of a site like "Testing Woo shipping options" or "Testing theme update".

Simple brochure sites are primarily static, and don't need dynamic functions. Most of them require only a contact form, which can be taken care of by a third-party service. For these types of sites, an option to completely lock both the database and the file system would minimize maintenance and prevent security issues altogether, bringing complete peace of mind for clients and developers. Rocket.net implemented this feature recently, and it works well.

Sometimes when we move a client from InstaWP to our production service we aren't quite ready to nuke everything on InstaWP. I'd like to be able to suspend the site (or redirect it from the dashboard) without deleting it while we wait for it to expire.

Please explore a partnership with Gridpane. They also have funding from Automattic and are much more established than a platform like ServerAvatar. https://gridpane.com/

Allow the selection of the datacentre location for staging sites created from within the WordPress plugin to speed up staging creation.