WordPress Staging - How Useful Is It?

WordPress Staging - How Useful Is It?

Staging is an important feature of WordPress, this allows the users to test run their changes before publishing their site LIVE on internet.

This is a very useful process, it can be used to preview or test changes made in the website without going live on the domain. It can be used in two ways one would be directly through the WordPress and the other by a Backup and Restore plugin.

Performing this operation through WordPress site can be tedious as a lot of things are needed to be kept in mind while performing this process whereas with these plugins you can perform this very easily.

Let’s take a look at some of the features that these plugins provide.

1.   Sandbox Environment

Staging

It provides sandboxenvironment to the users to try and see how that particular plugin or theme or any other change will actually look before going live on the domain. This saves time and also help the users to get an exact idea of the content that is going to be published.

  

2.   Editing

This feature not only helps users to try their changes but also helps in editing files before actually creating a backup for it without changing the original copy. So if you want to see how those alterations will look before saving it, Staging is the thing for you.

3.   Installing Updates

If there are some updates you want to make to these files but are not completely sure of it, then you can use this feature and see if that particular theme or plugin actually goes with your files or not and then install it making it error free.

Same goes with the themes, if you want to apply a particular theme to your website you can test run it here and see how it looks with your website.

4.   Site Testing

Making a site on WordPress is a tenuous job a lot of things are to be kept in mind before actually publishing live. This feature helps you in building your site as you can try different themes, plugins or content and see how your site will actually look in real time.

5.   Core Files

If you want to change or alter something in the core files but are uncertain if it will go with the existing files or not, you can test it by applying those changes to the files without harming the originally backed up files. As your core files are everything and losing these files will make all your hard work go to waste. To avoid such situations it’s better to test run the updates and see if that really goes with the core files or not.

Thus, being an important and useful feature it helps you to make changes into your core files without ruining the older copy and also helps in editing and running test runs of updates and plugins before going live into the domain so that the percentage of error is reduced and backup remains safe.