Promoting from development to production / Themovation

For promoting from development to production we find tools like this one are amazing for migrating databases, then you don't have to do the find / replace bit:

http://pixelentity.com/wordpress-search-replace-domain/

Since the options builder we are using (OptionTree) stores the data as serialized it makes it much more difficult to do a simple find / replace and that's why the link above is so great. That service does have a max database size of 5mb though, so we've also found an open source tool that works similarly without the max size limitation:

https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

This is something you can download locally and it supports serialized data as well.

Using a Plugin

As another option, one of our awesome customers has used and recommends the following premium tools which handle the migration from Development to Production.

BackupBuddy (requires Developer level license)
ImportBuddy

Thanks Tom!