Database Anonymization Free Edition

Anonymize personal data (PII) in WordPress databases for development and testing. Comply with rules and regulations, prevent data leaks.

WordPress database are often copied from production to test and development environments. This ensures a representative WordPress installation for productive programming and testing.
However, most production databases contain Personal Identifiable Information, so you need to have effective security controls in place to comply with rules and regulations such as EU GDPR.

This plugin supports you with complying with rules and regulations and prevent data leaks originating from dev/test WordPress installations, while retaining the database structure and integrity.

• Export an anonymized version from a live WordPress database as a SQL file.
• Anonymize an existing dev/test WordPress database in place.
• Transform data using customizable rules, with each rule creating a step of the data transformation.
• Anonymize many data types using a wide range of transformations.
• Use the built-in ruleset for default WordPress installations for a quick start.
• Add, change and delete rules to make the anonymization work as you see fit.
• Use powerful options to anonymize any column in any WordPress database table, supporting all plugins that use the database to store personal data.

You can create rules to skip specific records that contain PII of admins, developers and testers. This prevents locking yourself out of WordPress and ensures that you and test users can perform their tasks while personal data from customers and other users is anonymized.

User manual

The manual is published on the DIM Plugins web site.

Learn about supported data types, special functions to transform data hidden in meta data, JSON or serialized arrays and all possible ways to anonymize personal data.

Enterprise edition features

Upgrade to unlock additional features.

• Import and export transformation rules to distribute a uniform anonymization approach across environments.
• Customize the fake data set for domains, names, nicknames, agent strings, street names, city names and IBANs.
• Use more powerful transformations for email addresses and personal data hidden in arrays.
• Automatically generate rules for the plugins WooCommerce, Gravity Forms, ProfilePress, Fluent Forms, Contact Forms 7 + Flamingo/CFDB7, Forminator, Ninja Forms and Formidable Forms.

1. Install the plugin via the Plugins page of your WordPress installation.
2. Search for Database Anonymization to find it in the plugin collection.
3. Activate the plugin as part of the installation.
4. In the menu go to Tools – Database Anonymization.
5. Choose between a configuration for a production or a dev/test WordPress installation.
6. Review, change and add transformation Rules.
7. Review, change and add Exceptions to skip.
8. Run the anonymization.