I just joined a company that provides free word press sites on our own hosting. None of the production sites have staging sites. What are the best options for me to make a staging site?
Can you create subdomains? If you do, do your staging on the subdomain, once ready export to the main domain. If you cant create subdomains, either create files locally on your own server and give access to the client, or share screenshots. In case they dont currently have a working website, you can develop on the main domain and password protect it until youre ready to go live
>What are the best options for me to make a staging site?
Check if your hosting (and your chosen hosting’s package) supports free staging; that would be the best for you, I think (like we have on our SiteGround shared hosting package).
I’ve moved to a Docker workflow which makes it incredibly easy to go from local > staging > prod. And in that flow staging is almost not needed for small updates. It’s totally worth spending a day learning Docker.
Use a backup plugin and restore to a new site.
Can you create subdomains? If you do, do your staging on the subdomain, once ready export to the main domain. If you cant create subdomains, either create files locally on your own server and give access to the client, or share screenshots. In case they dont currently have a working website, you can develop on the main domain and password protect it until youre ready to go live
>What are the best options for me to make a staging site?
Check if your hosting (and your chosen hosting’s package) supports free staging; that would be the best for you, I think (like we have on our SiteGround shared hosting package).
I’ve moved to a Docker workflow which makes it incredibly easy to go from local > staging > prod. And in that flow staging is almost not needed for small updates. It’s totally worth spending a day learning Docker.