Setting up a staging area for a WordPress website

  • Resolved nlowefbir16

    (@nlowefbir16)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Afternoon,

    I’m currently working on a client’s website and I’m wondering how our clients to test the website without having to login via WordPress. Ideally, I would like to send them a link so they can test the website that way for any issues / final amendments before we launch it.

    I was wondering if anyone could please help, or advise me on what would be the best way to do this.

    I have had a look on a few website about staging sites, but I’m a little unclear of to do this.

    Kind regards,
    Nick

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I develop on my own server, visible to the client. When all is done (and the invoice paid), I move the site to the client’s designated host. To move the site, I copy the files via FTP, use better-search-and-replace to replace my domain with the clients, then export the DB from my server and import on the clients. Ta-da, done, except for hooking up with Google webmaster tools, enabling caching, etc.

    We also do training on the dev site so they feel safe to break things.

    Thread Starter nlowefbir16

    (@nlowefbir16)

    Hi Steve,

    Many thanks for your reply. Your method sounds really easy to do, I’ll give that a try.

    Kind regards,
    Nick

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