Yes, there’s another required step: I must enter the correct connection informations before the checkbox shows up. The JS code checks for the connection, talks to the remote plugin and if it finds it’s all ok, lets the checkbox display itself. In other cases it hides the checkbox. Now I believe this plugin has a … Read more
Auto populate form fields based on serial input or pull listings from other websites?
Update from comments To convert an array of options to site options, you can try something like this: add_action( ‘init’, ‘wpse245699_use_site_options’ ); function wpse245699_use_site_options() { // Uses site options for these options. $required_site_options = array( ‘some_option_name’, ‘another_option_name’, ‘and_another_one’, ); foreach( $required_site_options as $option ) { add_action( ‘update_option_’ . $option, ‘wpse245699_update_site_option’, 10, 3 ); add_filter( ‘pre_option_’ … Read more
There is nothing in WP that specifically deals with cross–site communication. Every WP site is an island by design. However there are plenty helpful bits and pieces to rig suitable solutions for many use cases. As far as I follow your case I would imagine something like this: Central sites hosts documents (in whatever way … Read more
Update products, terms and relations via SQL
If you need to share them automatically, you can use save_post action hook and switch_to_blog and get_post() + wp_insert_post functions. I can suggest this tutorial. I think there is no reason to copy all the code from there to here.
This is a tricky one since even if you might get it to work with Core with plugins you never know if they also store data in files, custom tables, post types and so in. If you then only sync the options table you might get inconsistent/partial/broken states. Also you probably don’t want to sync … Read more
Is there an actual way to synchronize ‘production’ and ‘develop’ WordPress databases?
You should sync your files using ie. SSH or GIT software (see also there)
In summary, work with Bedrock, use a git repository and use simple SQL batch to export/import your database between your different environments. I work with WordPress since three years now and I tried a lot of stuff to do that with some plugins, some scripts, etc. I discovered last year a great boilerplate for WP … Read more