WordPress Staging

Staging environments are testing playgrounds that let users work on a website without breaking the live site.

A playground environment creates a fully functional WordPress site for staging, testing or developing new features. InMotion Hosting’s playground environments are shared hosting environments, whereas your production environment is a fully-isolated VPS.

You can create one or many playground environments with a few clicks inside a Project. All playground environments come with WordPress pre-installed.

Another way to create a playground is by using a Snap. When you install a Snap, a new playground is created with WordPress plus the theme and plugins of your choice. This saves you time because you do not need to install and activate each plugin individually. The Snap does it for you!

Once your WordPress site is running the way you expect on your playground environment, you can publish your website to your production server.

Having a staging site is helpful with testing updates to your site without impacting the live site. Testing new themes, plugins, and designing new pages is safer to do on a copy of your site.

Here are some other things you can use a staging site for:

• Troubleshoot Errors
• Improve Functionality
• Test Available Updates for Plugins, Themes, and WordPress Core Files
• Test and Launch a New Site with Snaps
• Demo Staging Sites to Clients
• Safely Learn How to Use WordPress

Our WordPress plans on Platform InMotion offer the following playground environments:

• Tiers 1 through 4 include one free playground environment
• Tiers 5 through 8 include 15 playground environments

Need more playground environments? There is no limit on the number of WordPress staging sites / environments you can purchase a la carté inside of the Platform i dashboard.

• Purchase additional playground environments in increments of 5, 10, and 20