Revamp Your Website Seamlessly With Staging Site Synchronization
Fearlessly try out new ideas and designs before publishing them to the world.
Imagine you spot a new theme that would make your site shine. Or a plugin that will elevate your website’s functionality and user experience to new heights. Understandably, you’d probably like to test these changes before making them live to the world.
In May, we announced the availability of staging sites, which make it easy to experiment with changes like these. We’re excited to announce that you can now use our new synchronization feature to push changes from your staging site to your live, or “production,” site.
Starting today, fearlessly try out new ideas and designs before publishing them to the world. Let’s take a deeper look.
Let’s say you have a thriving pet grooming business. You have a nice, professional website, but it could use a few more handy features (like appointment scheduling) and a bit more pizzazz in general. Using a staging site, you play around with a few different themes and ultimately decide to design your own with our fun and easy-to-use assembler tool. You land on the perfect design for your site and now you need a plugin that allows clients to book an appointment. You try a couple different options, but nothing looks or works quite how you want it until you land on WooCommerce Bookings. Perfect.
Now, after those few days of experimenting and trying new things, you have a new, jazzed up website that you’re happy to share with the world. Simply click a couple of buttons on the Hosting Configuration page, and voila, your new site is live.
By working on your new site in a staging environment, you were able to maintain a professional presence while making magic happen behind the scenes. With our new staging sites synchronization feature, you’re now able to easily push your changes live.
How to synchronize your staging sites on WordPress.com
First, create a staging site on a Business or Commerce site with Hosting Features enabled. Once your staging site is created, try out some new plugins, play around with a new site design, or build a brand new homepage.
When you are satisfied with your changes and would like to copy them from staging to production, follow these steps:
- Navigate to your hosting dashboard: Settings → Hosting Configuration
- Scroll down to the “Staging site” section
- Select one of the options under “Choose synchronization direction”
- Toggle your desired options under “Synchronize this data”
- Click “Synchronize”
When the confirmation window appears, proceed by clicking “Synchronize” one final time.
For more details, including how to use the synchronization feature for different scenarios, visit our staging sites support page. This feature is accessible to all of our customers on our Business and Commerce plans.
Build your next site on WordPress.com
At WordPress.com, we’re committed to making your website management experience as seamless as possible. In the last year alone, we launched SSH and WP-CLI access, site preview links, global edge caching, staging sites, and more. With data synchronization for staging sites, we’ve added yet another powerful feature to your toolkit. Stay tuned for more exciting updates, and don’t forget to follow our Developer Blog to stay in the loop.
What other features would you like to see? How can we make WordPress.com an even more powerful place to build a website? Feel free to leave a comment.
- November 21, 2023
- Developer Tools, New Features
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Hey there, you can reach us here for further assistance: http://www.wordpress.com/help.
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I want to know what happened to the Business Plan I paid for? Where is the Live Chat? If you changed my plan before I was able to finish paying for it, how is that possible? Where is the Live Chat and why is it so hard to get in touch with a “HAPPY ENGINEER?”
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Hey there, please reach out to us here so we can assist you with this: wordpress.com/help. To access Live Chat select Contact Support > Live Chat. We look forward to hearing form you!
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Who is this feature available to?
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Staging sites are available on websites on the Business and Commerce plans.
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Good day I have alive site which is hosted by a service provider. The site need a revamp to be a commercial site. What are the steps to take it to a staging site for a revamp yet keep it live?
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Hey there! You’d be welcome to build a new version of your site here or have our experts build one for you, while keeping the old site live. When everything is ready, you can connect the domain and point it to our services. Until then the old site will stay live, so that’s a great option for staging. Let us know how we can help!
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