The WordPress site staging – a safe environment for experimentation and development

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As the saying goes, if something is going to explode during an experiment, it’s better to do it in a safe environment. The same goes for experiments with a working WordPress site – it’s better to do them on a staging copy of it .

The test or working copy of the site is used so that visitors and the operation of the live site are not affected.

See more about what a site test algeria number dataset is and when it's best to use it, as well as how you can create one in your hosting account.

What is a staging environment (working/test copy of the site)?
Subdomain or subdirectory for the test site?
What is the test copy of the site most often used for?
How do you make a test copy of a WordPress site?
Publishing changes from the test site to the live site
What is a staging environment (working/test copy of the site)?
the live site and its test copy (staging)
The live site and its test copy.
In the field of web development, the staging environment is created specifically for testing code, developments and updates. It should be made as identical as possible to the environment in which the site will then run ( production/live environment ). For example, the same technologies, settings, server and system application configurations, etc. should be used.

And when it comes to the site that runs in the staging environment, it can also be called a staging site or a test site, or a working copy of the site.

Creating a test copy of your website on a hosting service is easy because you don't need to create and set up a separate environment. Instead, you just need to make a copy of your website on the same hosting account that your live website is running on.

WordPress help
To save you time and effort, a test copy of the site can be created by our WordPress specialists. See more about the various tasks and difficulties related to the WordPress site that we can help you with: Professional WordPress Hosting Support .

Subdomain or subdirectory for the test site?
There is no strict requirement that it be on a subdomain or subdirectory. The test site can be made in a subdirectory or subdomain of the main site, for example mysite.

But there is one feature that will help you choose one of the two approaches – paid licenses for themes and plugins.

Some themes and plugins issue their licenses for a specific domain. For example, the license is active and verified for the site domain mysite.com, but will not be active for its subdomain, for example dev.mysite.com. This can create a case with updating the theme/plugin in the test copy if it uses a subdomain. When using a subdirectory mysite.com/dev, there will be no problem with updating. If the license of the paid component allows its use on another domain/subdomain, you can choose to have the test copy on a subdomain, otherwise, it is safest to use a subdirectory.