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Making changes to your live, revenue generating site can be problematic and even devastating. A staging site is designed to let you test new themes, plugins, style changes, and even trying new ways to create posts and articles, all without making changes to your live website. You can think of a staging site as a sandbox to play in without affecting your live website.

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Creating a staging site

Staging is only supported for standalone WordPress installations. Multisites cannot be staged.
To create a staging site, follow these steps:
  1. Log in to the Hosting Panel at https://my.hosting.com.
  2. In the left sidebar, click Managed WordPress:
  3. On the My Websites page, locate the site, and then click Manage:
  4. On the hosting.com dashboard, click Create Staging:
  5. This process can take a few moments to complete. When it does, a message appears stating you are in staging mode. You can now work with the staging site to perfect the changes you’d like to make.

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Publishing your staging site

When you’re ready to make the staging site live, click Publish in the top right corner.
ImportantPublishing a staging site overwrites your live website with the changes from the staging site.Any changes made on the live site after the staging site was created, including new content, orders, customer information, or other updates, may be lost.Before publishing, make sure you review the changes carefully and confirm that you want to replace the current live site.

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Deleting your staging site

To delete your staging site, follow these steps:
  1. Confirm that the staging site is selected the top left corner, where the white box says staging.
  2. Click Delete Staging to the right.
ImportantDeleting a staging site is not reversible — when you delete it, it is gone for good.