How To Easily Create A WordPress Staging Site

First, you need to login to your WordPress site’s admin area and click the ‘Bluehost’ button, then click the ‘Staging’ page. This will now bring you to the Bluehost’s staging site. The next you should do is to click on the ‘Create Staging Site’ button to continue.

Bluehost will now roll out the staging environment for your website. Once it’s done, the Blue host will send you a success message with a link to visit your staging site. (It appears that even your kid can do this staging stuff, huh?)

Next, click the ‘Go to the Staging Site’ button to continue.

You will now be brought to the admin area of your staging WordPress site. Look for the red button on top of the admin bar which informs you that you’re now operating in a staging environment.

You may now start and work with your “experiments” without affecting your live website on the other side.

First things first. Log in to your SiteGround cPanel dashboard. Next, scroll down your finger to ‘WordPress Tools’ section and click the ‘Staging’ icon.

It will now bring you to the staging sites page. From there, you now need to add your website to the staging site manager. When you’re done, you may now click the ‘Add WordPress’ button to continue.

On the next screen, select the URL where your website is installed.

Take note: If your WordPress site is installed in a sub-category, then you may add that in the field next to it and click on the ‘Add URL’ button to continue.

When the Staging Site manager detects your website, it will now add your website to the page. After this, you can now click on the ‘Create Staging Copy’ button to continue the process.

You will now see a pop up that allows you to input a Password Protect to your staging site (to prevent any unauthorized personnel from tweaking and ruining your staging site). Aside from preventing unauthorized access, it also prevents Google from indexing duplicate contents.

You can now provide a username/password and then click ‘Continue’.

SiteGround will set the stage for your website’s very own Staging Area. When it’s done, you will see the Staging Site Manager with links to the admin area of your Staging Site.

You’re now ready to rock ‘n roll (and tweak) with your Staging Area. Armed with plugins, themes, new code snippets, and more, you can now apply endless modifications until you reach your desired website output.

(Optional) Brag about how easy it is to make a SiteGround Staging Area!

Just like with every first step, you need to log in, this time, to your WP Engine dashboard. Next, go to the sites page and choose your website by clicking on it. It will bring you to your website dashboard. You may now click the ‘Add Staging’ link from the left column.

On the next screen, enter a name for your Staging Site under the ‘Create New’ tab. Take note that it will also be the subdomain of your staging site.

Click on the ‘Create Environment’ button to continue.

It’s now time for WP Engine to create a staging site for you! This staging area is just an empty WordPress site without any content of your live website. But we can change this!

On the left column, click on the ‘Production’ to switch to your production environment. On the next screen, you must click on the ‘Copy’ button at the top right corner of the screen.

Click ‘Preview Copy Button’ to continue.

After clicking it, a warning pop up will be displayed, which informs you that you are copying the source website to the staging environment. Click on the ‘Copy Environment’ button to proceed. WP Engine will now scan and copy your live website to the staging environment. You will now receive an email notification when the process is done.

After the confirmation, you can now log in to your staging website using the same admin password you are using for your live website. 

Log in to the Clouways platform. If you don’t have a Cloudways account yet on this hosting provider, you can sign up for a free trial. The first thing you need to do is log in to the Cloudways Platform.

Create a staging application. Once you’re logged in, go to the Applications tab and choose the WordPress website you need to create a staging environment for. Then click on the three vertical dots beside the picked application and choose clone app/create staging tag.

Select a server for the staging application. You can either select an existing server or create a new server from the drop-down menu. Then checkmark the create as staging option and click ‘Continue’.

However, it takes time to provision the server. So, you can select an existing server and create a staging application on it. The overall process will be completed in minutes.

Copy data from Cloudways staging to live website. As soon as the staging application is created, you need to copy data from it to your live WordPress site. For this, go to the Staging application and select Staging Management.

To copy the data from the WP Staging site to Live, select the Push option. You’ll see a warning message asking you to confirm your action. Click on the Confirm button to proceed.

Restore your application. In case you don’t like the changes made on your live application, you can always roll back by restoring your application from a backup. To do this, go to your live WordPress site and select ‘Backup and Restore’ from the vertical dots menu. Then click on ‘Restore application now’.