Sprout

Fast, deduplicated content and database seeding for WordPress.

Documentation | Install | Releases

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• Store your uploads and database in a secure, central location and easily let your team get up and running with the correct version of content with a one-liner - sprout seed.

• Sprout lets you commit a small sprout.yaml file as part of your WordPress project. It identifies the exact version of database and wp-uploads content required in order to seed a new environment.

• You can store your database and content in a Sprout repo - this can be a local path, SFTP, S3 bucket, or any number of supported backends via OpenDAL or rclone. Have complete control over your data.

• Your data is encrypted and deduplicated, and stored in the proven and trusted Restic format. So much more efficient than chucking ZIPs around.

• Sprout is FAST. Written in Rust, and provided as a single static binary, it will run anywhere.

• Sprout will locally stash your current database and wp-uploads during destructive operations - a nice safety net to have!

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⚠️ Although I think you'll love it, Sprout is pre-release. You should always back up your WordPress content and database before using Sprout.

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Installation

Binaries are avalailable for Mac and Linux on both x86_64 and arm64. You can get them via the releases page.

Mac

# x86_64 / Intel Macs
curl -L "https://github.com/talss89/sprout/releases/latest/download/sprout-macos-x86_64.tar.gz" | tar zxf - && sudo install -c -m 0755 sprout /usr/local/bin

# aarch64 / M1 Macs
curl -L "https://github.com/talss89/sprout/releases/latest/download/sprout-macos-aarch64.tar.gz" | tar zxf - && sudo install -c -m 0755 sprout /usr/local/bin

Linux

# x86_64
curl -L "https://github.com/talss89/sprout/releases/latest/download/sprout-linux-x86_64.tar.gz" | tar zxf - && sudo install -c -m 0755 sprout /usr/local/bin

# aarch64 / amd64
curl -L "https://github.com/talss89/sprout/releases/latest/download/sprout-linux-aarch64.tar.gz" | tar zxf - && sudo install -c -m 0755 sprout /usr/local/bin

Windows support is untested, and will require compilation with cargo.

What's going on behind the scenes?

Sprout stores your data in the Restic Repo Format, and uses rustic-rs/rustic_core internally. We dump the database via WP CLI, and replace the site URL with a placeholder value before storing it alongside an encrypted and de-duplicated archive of your wp-uploads folder.

Sprout rewrites the Restic hostname and path properties of each snapshot so your team can snap and seed seamlessly. Content branches are implemented as a virtual directory inside a snapshot.