Create a Dev > Staging Env. Create a Staging Site and Copy it to Another Staging Site before the Release

With WP STAGING, you can create a staging site from an existing production website.

You can also clone again a Staging site you have created as a further development site. This is helpful if you need different development sites and want to test what happens if data from one site is copied to another test website without affecting the actual production website.

Even though this article explains how to clone a staging site with WP STAGING, it does not matter if you’ve created it with WP STAGING or any other tool.

It’s a good idea to have a clone of your entire website to test as much as possible on your WordPress site before making any changes to your production site.

WP STAGING allows you to create a site for testing purposes and is your specialized tool to copy a staging site and all of its data to the production site.

Even better, it also allows you to create a clone of an already existing staging site and copy this cloned site to the parent clone.

This allows you to create a development and staging website beside the production system, a structure that is widely common and used by professional developers all over the world:

This development structure helps you test all the steps from cloning to pushing and ensure there are no errors in that process chain before you repeat the steps on your production website.

How to Create a Dev > Staging > Production Environment

How to clone a staging site:

In the latest WP STAGING PRO, you can clone a staging site with one click:

  1. Login to the staging site
  2. Navigate to WP STAGING > Sites
  3. Click on click here and make the staging site cloneable

If you’ve made these changes, you can start creating a clone of the staging site by login to

Staging Site > wp-admin > Navigate to WP Staging plugin page > Start

So, for instance, you can name your first staging site “Staging.”
Then you go to Staging Site > wp-admin > WP Staging> Start and label the clone “Development.”

Now you can work on the “Development” site and modify anything without worrying about breaking anything on your production website. Do the test push from the “Development” to the “Staging” site.

  1. Log in to the “Staging.”
  2. Navigate to WP Staging PRO > Staging Sites > Click on the Action dropdown.
  3. Push the site “Development” to the “Staging” site.

When you are done, and you like to copy the staging site to the production site:

  1. Log in to your production site.
  2. Navigate to WP Staging PRO> Staging Sites > Click on the Action dropdown.
  3. Push the site “Staging” to the production site.

How to Push the Dev Site to the Staging Site

  1. Log in to a “Staging” site.
  2. Navigate to WP Staging PRO > Staging Sites > Click on the Action dropdown.
  3. Push the site “Development” to the “Staging” site.

How to Push the Staging Site to the Production Site

  1. Log in to your production site.
  2. Navigate to WP Staging PRO> Staging Sites > Click on the Action dropdown.
  3. Push the site “Staging” to the production site.

Option 2: Create Multiple Staging Sites. Then Use Backup & Migrate

​Another option is to create two or even more staging sites from the live site. Then work on one of these sites.

When you are ready with your updates, you can go to Backup & Migration and create a backup of the updated website.

Download the backup file and upload it to one or more of your other staging sites. If the whole migration went well and the sites look good, you can either use the button ACTIONS > Push Changes or use another time the backup feature to migrate the site to the live site.

Updated on March 4, 2023