Use a staging site for testing new updates

  • WordPress is a busy ecosystem that receives regular updates for the core software, plugins, themes and PHP.
  • The updates could be about new features, bug fixes and security fixes.
  • These updates can easily break your website by throwing fatal errors.
  • So, always use a staging site to test these updates. A staging site is a clone of the live site that is used for performing experiments on the website.
  • Perform the updates on the live site only if everything goes well on the staging site.
  • WPEngine provides the most reliable way to create staging sites.
  • If your site doesn’t have a staging feature at all, then trust me, it is a good idea to move to a web host that has a staging feature inbuilt.

Always keep FTP credentials handy

  • WordPress is a busy ecosystem that receives regular updates for the core software, plugins, themes and PHP.
  • The updates could be about new features, bug fixes and security fixes.
  • These updates can easily break your website by throwing fatal errors.
  • So, always use a staging site to test these updates. A staging site is a clone of the live site that is used for performing experiments on the website.
  • Perform the updates on the live site only if everything goes well on the staging site.
  • WPEngine provides the most reliable way to create staging sites.
  • If your site doesn’t have a staging feature at all, then trust me, it is a good idea to move to a web host that has a staging feature inbuilt.