Test changes separately before touching a working website.
Before you start
Staging uses extra storage and is not available for every application.
What to do
- Back up the site and select it in Softaculous.
- Choose Create Staging where offered, with a separate location and database.
- Restrict public access and search-engine indexing.
- Disable live payments, customer emails and scheduled integrations on the copy.
- Test and plan how to apply the change to the live website.
Check the result
Confirm staging has its own URL and database.
If you need a hand
Do not replace a store database with an older staging copy while new orders arrive. Ask us to plan deployment.
Open a support request. Include the affected domain and what you tried. Leave out passwords, full payment details, and private keys.