{"id":619,"date":"2020-06-04T12:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T04:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=619"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:23:40","slug":"how-do-i-create-a-staging-area-for-my-wordpress-hosting-domain","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/how-do-i-create-a-staging-area-for-my-wordpress-hosting-domain","title":{"rendered":"How do I create a staging area for my WordPress hosting domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>How do I create a staging area for my WordPress hosting domain?<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At a certain time, you want to test out a new themes, plugins or changes to your WordPress. Website to see if things work out before deploying to the live WordPress website. The conventional way of doing this is you will need to re-upload or duplicate your existing WordPress installation folder, export and import your database to another database to create this sandbox environment. That\u2019s lots of work involved!<\/p>\n<div class=\"mkb-anchor mkb-clearfix mkb-back-to-top-inline\">\n<h6 class=\"mkb-anchor__title\">With our\u00a0WordPress Expert Managed package, you can easily get this done with just few mouse clicks!<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>1. Login to your <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress<\/a> control panel via the\u00a0client area portal.<\/p>\n<p>2. On the WordPress control panel dashboard, click on the \u201cClone\u201d button on the WordPress installation that you wish to make a copy of the WordPress as a staging\/sandbox environment.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/14039903087\/original\/qsyD7nEdXYZXmJKE1ZdspCbG3EJWiXIJQg?1543979937\" alt=\"How do I create a staging area for my WordPress hosting domain?\" width=\"833\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. You will be brought to the WordPress Clone setup page.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/14039903196\/original\/RzFOk1i8J4i7wGFzHfgbFRMLQINoSkWxfQ?1543980061\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. By default, the cloning mechanism will make a copy of your WordPress install as a subdomain \u201cstaging.yourWordPressdomain.com\u201d . If you wish to change other \u201cstaging\u201d subdomain name, click on the \u201ca new subdomain\u201d link and edit the subdomain as the pop-up box show. The changes will be reflected. The clone will also make a copy of the live database with a new database.<\/p>\n<p>4. Once you are ready, click the OK and the cloning process will be started.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/14039903220\/original\/8gmqJh3t2RXJOesPbdlV_RHRQGwZgPzW6w?1543980093\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. Once the process completed, you will be landed on the WordPress installation as you have on your default but this is on a staging.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/14039903225\/original\/AV5dRG-TbuxORIePZpFG7MsWjBuiYBY7Bg?1543980120\" \/><\/p>\n<p>6. If your default WordPress domain DNS name server is using our pair of name server, you will be able to use that immediately by browsing the domain name. Otherwise, you will need to create a new DNS A record from your 3rd party DNS server to point to your WordPress hosting server IP.\u00a0Read this article\u00a0for more details on how to get the IP address of your WordPress hosting server.<\/p>\n<p>7. As you back to your WordPress control panel dashboard, you will see that the staging WordPress installation is now having its own configuration setting as you scroll through the page.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/14039903252\/original\/nd6QtfZ5qKBQ5FD-tK9DAyqEHO2UPWVYoQ?1543980146\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I create a staging area for my WordPress hosting domain? &nbsp; At a certain time, you want to test out a new themes, plugins or changes to your WordPress. Website to see if things work out before deploying to the live WordPress website. The conventional way of doing this is you will need to re-upload or duplicate your&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[25],"kbtag":[1134],"class_list":["post-619","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-gettings-started-with-wordpress-hosting","kbtag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5764,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/619\/revisions\/5764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}