Over the next few months, we will be deprecating and then removing VaultPress from the WordPress VIP platform. The VIP Dashboard now supports exporting database backups for all your applications and environments, the primary feature previously provided by VaultPress.
Here’s the timeline for the planned deprecation and removal:
- Tuesday, March 14th, 2023: VaultPress will be disabled on non-production environments
- Tuesday, March 28th, 2023: VaultPress will be disabled on production environments
- Tuesday, July 04th, 2023: VaultPress plugin code will be removed from the VIP Platform’s Must Use (“MU”) plugins and the VIP Platform
Once VaultPress is disabled for an environment, you won’t be able to access database backups from the VaultPress Dashboard. Instead, the VIP Dashboard will provide you an integrated experience for managing exports that fits in with your existing VIP workflows.
If you’d like to continue leveraging VaultPress until the final removal date in June, you can add the following line to your vip-config.php file:
define( 'VIP_VAULTPRESS_SKIP_LOAD', false );
With this in place, VaultPress will continue working on your environments even after we deprecate it on non-production and production environments. It will continue working until its removal date at the end of June.
Managing exports within the VIP Dashboard
We’re excited to have these and more new features coming soon to WordPress VIP.
- Database exports are optimized for use in development environments and allow for further customization and filtering.
- Security is enhanced by including user access control for backups under the VIP Dashboard user management system, easing onboarding and offboarding workload.
- Tracking generation and download events are available in the Audit Log.
- Backup exports via VIP-CLI (upcoming feature)
- Easier syncing of data into the VIP Local Development Environment (upcoming feature)
- On-demand / ad-hoc backups (upcoming feature)
Please reach out to VIP Support with any questions or concerns you may have. We are happy to accommodate an extension should you need it.