Have you ever think of changing your website’s design, adding new features, or tweaking plugins, but worried about messing up your live site? Then, don’t worry. Staging sites come to the rescue.
With a staging site, you can experiment and test changes in a safe, isolated environment before pushing them live to your actual website.
This guide will walk you through the world of staging sites and how to set one up for your WordPress website using the WP Staging plugin.
What is a staging site?
It’s a complete copy of your website on a separate server, allowing you to make changes, test new features, and ensure everything works perfectly before pushing those updates live.
But it is not available to everyone as your live site. So even if you change anything on the staging site it will not reflect on your live site.
Note:
If you have Astra Pro Addon activated on your single (live) website, you might want to consider upgrading to 10 website plan, in this case all staging. and subdomains are considered a separate domain.
Why Having a Staging Site Makes Sense?
As it’s not a live site, you can test stable updates, beta updates or new plugins and make any kind of experiments. You can do this without worrying about breaking your live site.
Provide access to support staff for troubleshooting without worrying about your confidential data.
Why is this Useful for the Support Team?
1. If you are a customer who can not provide login details of the live site to the support team, you can create a staging site and share login details of it.
2. It is better for the support team to troubleshoot support problems on the staging site, instead of the live site.
3. So the support team doesn’t have to worry about breaking the live site of the customer.
How to Create a Staging Site?
Below is the detailed video that shows how to set up a staging site in less than 5 minutes with the WP Staging plugin.
If you have any questions or need further assistance setting up a staging site or using WP Staging, feel free to leave a comment below. We’re always happy to help you.
