Come creare facilmente un sito di staging per WordPress (passo dopo passo)

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1. Beulah Wellington

   If I download WAMP on my computer and use the localhost, couldn’t install the UpdraftPlus plugin and let that be my staging site? Isn’t this another alternative?

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   • WPBeginner Support

     Rather than UpdraftPlus, we would recommend taking a look at our guide here for using local for staging: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-move-wordpress-from-local-server-to-live-site/

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2. Jan Stetson

   I’m trying to set up a staging environment on my WordPress site hosted by Bluehost. I’m stopped at step one! when I go to the WordPress admin area, I don’t see bluehost at the top of the page. The topmost option in the nav menu on the left is “Dashboard”. No sign of “Staging” anywhere. Help?

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   • WPBeginner Support

     You likely removed the BlueHost plugin, if you reach out to BlueHost’s support they should be able to let you know their current methods available

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3. Shashank Sachan

   Hello
   I tried but did not succeed. Getting error ” this site can’t be reached”.
   I am on Godaddy and using Cloudflare. And I have not created a separate FTP account.

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   • WPBeginner Support

     To start troubleshooting that you could try the steps in our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-403-forbidden-error-in-wordpress/
     or reach out to your hosting provider for them to take a look.

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4. simona

   thank you for the article. one question: If I update Wordpress ONLY on the staging site, will it affect also my live-site?
   thank you for your answer. regards, s.

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   • WPBeginner Support

     No, if you update one site it should not affect the other.

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5. oshibiko

   Thank you for this article.

   Do you know of a way to test membership (loginlogoff ) functionality without going live on the actual site. In the staging environment or developing. TIA

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   • WPBeginner Support

     You would likely need to create a test user for you to log in with to test that.

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6. Mark E

   Great article, with one step missing for the manual instructions.
   After downloading the duplicator files to your computer, you then have to upload the installer file and archive file to your newly created subdomain directory.
   Otherwise when you try to run the installer you get a 404 page.
   Otherwise great guide!
   Thanks….

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   • WPBeginner Support

     Thank you for pointing that out

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7. Charlene Marsh

   No option to try the staging feature on Bluehost yet. Message says “Please contact support to find out how to enable staging.” I was just on the phone with Bluehost about another issue and the rep I was speaking with never heard of this new feature.

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   • WPBeginner Support

     It would depend on what rep you were talking to as it is a new feature so not all reps may be knowledgeable yet

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   • Matt Stephen

     To be able to use the staging feature provided by Bluehost, you must install and activate the Blushost plugin.

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8. Sean

   Thank you for this great info, as always. Now is this something I could use to play around with a new page builder? I want to test out Thrive Architect but want to do so without messing anything up. Or, suppose I wanted to play around with a new theme. These may be 2 different questions.

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   • WPBeginner Support

     You could certainly test those changes with a staging environment without having to worry about what people see on the site.

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9. Vanessa

   Thanks for the info. I currently use Bluehost but don’t have the staging site option I would love to test it out for a new theme I’d like to try before purchasing it. I contacted BH tech support the rep told me the feature is in development. Thanks again for the info.

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   • WPBeginner Support

     Glad we could bring this feature to your attention even if it is currently being developed

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     • Vanessa

       I was able to access the feature today. I’m excited to use it. Thanks again for the info. I’m excited to try out the staging feature.

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10. Ani Chijioke

    this is a great information, I have two websites, but I don’t feel like having both look the same.

    pls, I need help.

    is there any code I can add on >dashboard >customize >additional css,,, for the font color of my site to be pure black in color..

    I have this theme that I am using, it gives me everything I want. but the font color of my blog posts are light black. I will like to change the color to pure black

    any solution?
    thank you.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      For finding the CSS you need to change, you would want to take a look at our article on how to use inspect element here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/basics-of-inspect-element-with-your-wordpress-site/

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11. alykhan

    Great article but the push back to live is a little brief. I have a WooCommerce site that needs a theme change. I used Duplicator Pro to make a copy on a staging server. I’ve made all the changes to the site including adding a couple of new plugins.

    Now I want to push the site back but I can’t do the same thing as there are new orders on the live site. How do I copy the site back without affecting the orders etc..?

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Sadly, the safest method for that would be to prevent orders while updating from staging.

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12. Jennifer Verdin

    I haven’t read the comments yet, but I’ve been at this all day. The reason why is because this page does not tell you how to create a database user and assign privileges to the said user.

    Thankfully, I was able to figure it out, but that’s a KEY step that is missing to connect the site and database.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Apologies about the confusion, we will certainly look into clarifying that. If you reach out to your hosting provider they normally have a user already created.

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13. Max

    Hi guys,
    Thanks for your awesome post. I like the idea that the provider has the staging, productive and a test environment out of box.
    But I have two questions:
    1. Can write a little bit how it works by your suggested providers?
    2. Have you also providers which are located in the EU or better in Germany? And offer staging environment out of box?

    Kind regard

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14. Chris

    Thank you so much for this information! And if anyone’s wondering, yes, it’s still relevant 4.5 years later.

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15. Jess

    Hi there

    I am in the process of setting up a new Wordpress site but I was planning to start building everything in my staging environment because I would like my live site to have a “under construction” landing page.

    What I am not sure of is how to push my changes from the staging site to my live site when I am ready. Would you mind describing this process please?

    Thank you
    Jess

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    • Johnny

      If it’s simply a matter of wanting a “Under Construction” page while keeping the rest of the sight off limits to the public, there are plugins that will do that. Search “under construction.”

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16. Russell

    How does this process compare to using a plugin like wp-staging.

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17. Fernando Lisboa

    Hi, my question is, i created a staging environment, work there make some updates on structure of pages, layouts, new categories, new pluig-in.

    Ok, but in real live, my site is growing with new posts, comments, images, videos, etc…

    When i push stage back to life, i will lost thes new itens that were create in real live ??? I test this in sitegroud, and i loose ever with advanved “push to live”

    tks

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Hi Fernando,

      The solution described above only syncs your website files not the database.

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18. Ravindra

    Hi,
    Thank you very much. This article was very helpful.

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19. Chris

    Hi, thanks for such a useful article,

    I’m having a small issue when I give it a go,

    I have got as far down as

    “Once WordPress has connected to your staging database, it should detect that WordPress has been installed, and prompt you to login” and I am stuck – it autoredirected to the wp-login and gave me a blank page. Not a 404, just a clean white screen.

    On the main page the login has been renamed so I try to navigate to that instead and again just a clean white screen.

    Can anyone give me any pointers on where I’m going wrong?

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Please see our guide on how to fix white screen of death in WordPress.

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20. Smitha

    Hi,

    Thanks for this article!
    I followed all the steps but I think I have missed one

    I created a staging environment and checked site url in wp-options and updated wp-config file but the staging site is being redirected to the primary site.

    Do I need to change any other setting?

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21. Ruth

    Hi! Thanks for the useful article!
    Question, is it necessary to create a new database for your subdomain? Can’t you just use your root domain’s database?
    Same for the FTP account, is it necessary to create a new one? I can now access my subdomain easily through my main FTP.
    Thanks!
    Best,
    Ruth

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Hi Ruth,

      Yes, it is necessary to create a separate database and a separate FTP account.

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22. Courtney

    Hello!

    Perhaps this was already covered. Do I need a child theme on my sub-domain serving as my staging site? I am adding custom code and modifications to the new theme on my subdomain with the intention of switching all of this over to the live site when finally ready. Would this complicate things when switching from the staging site to replacing what is currently the live site?

    Thank You!

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23. Lee Perry

    Hi, this article is super helpful. I have encountered one problem though, when I go to visit my staging URL, I have the following message appear ‘server DNS address could not be found’. I have also cleared my cache and browser history as someone wrote this might help, but it hasn’t worked. I’m wondering what I am doing wrong. Any help would be great.

    Lee

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    • Georgia

      I’m having the same problem – did you manage to resolve this issue?
      Thanks, Georgia

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24. Adrien

    While I appreciate the detailed instructions (I don’t like installing plugins to accomplish such tasks), I don’t see any advice concerning keeping the staging and live sites in sync. Wordpress sites are generally edited live with respect to content—posts, products, media, etc. Once you follow these directions, the two content sets will diverge as users add content to the live site while the developer’s staging version remains an old copy. I don’t see a good solution for this save a cron rsync job. Any tips?

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25. Jason

    After you create the staging subdomain and ftp account.

    Skip all the other copying and database junk.

    Install duplicator on your live site. Make a duplicate backup, which includes a zipped copy and an install. Php file.

    Upload both to your staging area. (Maybe go in and create a database and user for the staging site in cpanel while you wait for the two fingers to upload)

    Point your browser to staging.domain.com/install.php and follow the prompts.

    Then go back to the rest of this tutorial for locking it down.

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26. Gus Reyes

    Hi, I followed another tutorial before I found this one and I installed Wordpress BEFORE copying files over and running the SQL queries. My staging site does not populate with live site’s data. Any help you can offer about what to do at this point would be appreciated…

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27. Martin

    The staging site does not look exactly like my primary site. The default banner is there instead of my uploaded media (even though that file has transfered) and rather than a nav bar with drop down menus, I have a list of all of my site’s webpages. Is this normal? If not, could you point me where to sort it out?

    Thanks for this article!

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28. BLZ

    I keep getting this error when I try to run SQL queries ” #2013 – Lost connection to MySQL server during query”

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29. Stefan

    Thank you for the great tutorial! I followed it thourgh and created a staging site. However, the staging site seems to be missing some settings from the original site (where I am working with a template), e.g. the font is different, the menu and logo is missing and some other settings are just off. Are there additional files I need to copy?
    Thanks a lot!

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30. Lynn Fontaine

    Very thorough instructions! We currently have WordPress 4.3.6 version. I think there is a newer version 4.7; however, I am not updating due to past problems with my theme and child after an update. If I follow your instructions to install WordPress on computer, it most likely will affect the existing site as well which will cause a problem. Do you agree? and how do I proceed? thanks.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Hi Lynn,

      You can safely install WordPress on your computer and import content from your live site. This way you will be able to test drive new WordPress version with your current theme and child theme.

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31. Mike

    Couple years later, is there an easier way to do this?

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    • Sandy

      Lol, Mike, you’re my kinda person! And although you’ve probably sped ahead to something easier by now, I thought I would mention something that I saw but haven’t tried: Backup Buddy. I don’t know how thorough it would be for this purpose. Since my site is pretty static, I used a subdomain to reconstruct my site – just copied and pasted my content as ascii text. Bluehost said they could make it my main site (not subdomain with redirect – make it a domain) when I’m done. Of course you have to set up the widgets, plugins, etc. Still working on it because I’m definitely a beginner. This would be really laborious for a more sophisticated site.

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32. Luke Marshall

    I like the well documented article but maybe it’s just me but I can’t find anything anywhere which starts a github repository with a site that’s only on your live server! How do I pull it down to the repository and why does Cloudway s have all the addressing options. What all do I need to pull down do I need to use My SQL Work Bench?

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33. David Borrink

    Well done tutorial. I gave up on a staging plug-in after several attempts failed, and found this one to be easy to follow and implement.

    One issue to mention and that’s the need to have a database user set up. I had to redo the process and choose the database wizard on CPanel in order to be able to set that up. That allowed my wp-config file to be set up with the info and then it worked. (My first attempt resulted in “unable to establish a database connection.” Once I established a database user, it went through.

    And thank you for the the note to check the URL, with the notes to look at site URL and home on the wp-options table. That allowed to me to confirm and get going on a re-design.

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34. Martin Klasson

    I guess I found an easier way – that works for me in a project right now!

    1. I just clone the files in the ftp to a /staging/ site,
    2. clones the database to a dbname_stage
    3. Changes the wp-config.php in /staging/ – by changing database to dbname_stage
    4. Adds in wp-config in /staging/ the new WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL
    define(‘WP_HOME’,’http://example.com’);
    define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’http://example.com’);

    Then it is super-easy to just copy the dbname_stage back to the live database called dbname

    Super easy.

    And if you like, you can also in the wp-config change default uploads directory to the same as the live one.. as long as you just dont have the need to “delete” media files that is.

    And your changes in the theme files are easily moved back to the live site.

    What about that?

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35. Mike

    I love the article – so clear instructions and well written. I’m having problems getting it working though.

    I followed the instructions to get from production (www.) to test (test.) and dev (dev.)

    I’ve tried all this several times in dev … two things happen

    dev.example.com … goes to http://www.example.com
    test.example.com … goes to test.example.com

    On test when I open a post form the menu as a user – it does not show the post but a reference to the post which when I click on it, it takes me back to the same page

    I’m wondering if you have any ideas on what may not have worked?

    Thanks

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    • Julio

      The problem is in your DB, maybe you did left some original (www.example.com) URL’s on your dev.example.com database

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36. sat

    Thanks for the great article. It helped me to set up a staging website for testing my new theme. But you have omitted one critical information, after copying the database the MySQL user setup for the wp to access the database needs to be given permission to access the database through the CPanel -> Mysql databases -> add a user to the database option. Otherwise, you will get “cannot connect to the database” when trying to access the admin page through the URL.

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37. Hesli Brito

    I am getting lost here:

    After copying your database, you need to copy your WordPress files, plugins, themes, and uploads. First download a fresh copy of WordPress from WordPress.org. Upload the contents of WordPress to your staging site. Note, do not run the WordPress install yet.
    Once you have uploaded WordPress, the next thing you need to copy is media files, plugins, and themes. The following folders will need to be copied :

    Could you guys be more detailed here? Cause I don’t know the right way to upload Wordpress without installing… I am missing something here, cause I can’t get it right…

    Please, could you guys update this article with more information in this part?

    Thanks

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Please see our guide on how to upload WordPress files using FTP.

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38. Sion

    Thank you for this amazing guide! I’ve successfully created a staging site with this.
    What steps do you recommend to do from Staging to Live?
    Right now, I’m just writing down every changes I make and repeat it on the live site.
    I’m not sure I know the appropriate method to copy Stage site to Live.

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39. Barbara

    I have set up the staging site as outlined above – but now how do I get it to the live site?

    I’ve been looking here, but can’t seem to find the answers. Help please?

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40. Peter

    What about using Git to track the changes made in DB ? with wordpress, there is a very high likelihood that changes made are in DB instead of in files on hosting server

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41. Rajit

    Hi, got stuck at the first step itself. I followed the steps but for some reason not being able to set up a staging environment through cpanel. When I type the link i get the message ‘This site can’t be reached’.

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    • Rajit

      I removed it and created again. Now I am getting 403 Forbidden error.

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      • Hesli Brito

        Same here

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42. Mike

    Thank you for this! What process do you suggest for going live with the staging site?

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43. Craig Watson

    Hi, I have followed your steps as above but for some reason the staging URL is redirecting to the normal live URL.

    I have ran the queries in the database and copied the files including updating the wp-config.php

    Do you have any idea what may be going on here as the staging URL was not redirecting yesterday when I put a small test HTML page up there..

    Hope you can advise
    Craig

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    • Craig Watson

      OK so I was inpatient and didn’t clear cache…. However now I’m on the staging site the database has clearly not moved well…

      Lots of setting seem to have been lost.

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44. Glauber Oak

    Hi there,
    Thank you so much for the detailed instructions.
    Does this work for MU site?
    Multi-site is at the root, and I would like to copy only the root to an especial folder. Server has other sites as subdirectories. Do not need to be copied at this point (in the futures, a couple of sites will be cloned as well)
    Root should go to a subdomain for testing purposes.
    Thank you in advance!

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45. Gemma

    HI. I am following your tutorial and i got stuck in media files has been copied section. Checking with my FTP and Cpanel files are existing but is not showing in my media library . How can i rectify this? Thanks and your tutorial is very helpful for noobs . 5 thumbs up.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      While your media files are stored on server. WordPress can’t show them unless you import data and database. Information about your media files is stored in WordPress posts table as attachment post type.

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46. Serhan

    Thank you for this article; very helpful.

    I’d like to add one more point; as it might help other readers too.

    After you make a copy of your database, you may need to add the user from previous database to the newly created one.

    Otherwise, while setting up your wp-config, you might face with authentication problem.

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47. sam

    How do i set-up the staging environment on AWS?

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48. Guvenc Kaplan

    Very nice and helpful article. However;

    Replacing all the references in the DB (example.com with staging.example.com) will most likely break all the serialized values and you will have BIG issues on the staging site. You need to use a replacer that has serialization support.

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    • Sina

      Can you please suggest one with this serialization feature?

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49. Mohammad

    Thank you for this great article!

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50. Kris Parker

    Excellent article, helped in great detail. thank you

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