A WordPress staging site is like a sandbox. It’s where you can try out all kinds of tweaks and changes without risking breaking your production site. And, as opposed to running a local development site, your WordPress staging site is using the exact same hardware as your live site, which means anything that works on the staging is pretty much guaranteed to work on your live site. There’s a reason so many quality managed WordPress hosts offer staging sites. But what if you’re one of the people who doesn’t have access to a host that offers staging sites? Are you doomed to a life of making changes to your live site?
No! You’re not, my friend. And in this post, I’m going to show you two different ways that you can create your very own WordPress staging site.
First – I’ll show you the easy free plugin that helps you create a staging site. Then, for the masochists, I’ll show you the manual method that I personally used to create my own personal staging site.
Let’s dive in…
Defining Some Terminology: Push vs. Pull in Staging Sites
Before I give you the guide, I want to set up some basic staging terminology that’s going
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/15682/how-to-create-a-wordpress-staging-site-if-your-host-doesn-t-offer-one
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/how-to-create-a-wordpress-staging-site-if-your-host-doesnt-offer-one/
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