Update Smart: Using a Staging Site!

Performing theme, plugin and core updates on your site can be intimidating and overwhelming, especially for older and more complex sites with many interconnected plugins – Woocommerce, I’m looking at you!

The solution is simple: use a staging site – a private copy of your site where you can safely test updates and resolve problems before your users ever experience an issue.

I’ll guide you across a number of ways to create a staging site depending on your specific needs, performing these updates, and then applying these updates to your main site. You’ll leave with a concrete plan for how to set up your own staging site, and will fear the update process far less!

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Published by meagan hanes

Digital Designer of Interactive Internet things. Past: Carleton University, IBM, Epiphan, Solace. 3 of 4 are now Solid WordPressin' To The Future. Current: WordPress, indieweb, Web0.club, Bluesky, and retrofitting Pies into All You Can Eat Buffets of Good Wordy Knowledge!