WordPress Staging Environment

Sites on our WordPress-optimised platform have access to a full staging environment. Staging allows you to make a clone of a live WordPress site to a staging server in moments. You can then make changes without affecting the live site. Once those changes are completed, clone them back to the live server.

Why use WordPress Staging?

A WordPress staging site is a clone of your live website to test changes, try out plugins, themes and everything else before making them live. Staging sites help you catch errors, so you don’t end up breaking your live website.

You can install WordPress locally on your Windows or Mac machine to test changes or see if a plugin works and when finished and satisfied with the updates, simply upload those changes from localhost to live server.

One problem, and it can be a major issue, with this approach is that something that worked on your localhost does not always mean it work on the live server

Often localhost and live hosting servers are not running the same environment.

A WordPress staging site lives on your web hosting server, all those errors can be prevented because it runs the same server configuration as your live site.

Now have a look how to use the staging environment on our optimised WordPress platform.

To make use of the staging environment, you’ll need to make sure your WordPress site is hosted on our optimised WordPress platform and if not, ask to get it moved there.