TurboHub staging for WordPress

This article discusses TurboHub’s staging feature for WordPress.

About TurboHub staging

Staging is an easy way to test and preview changes before you push them to your live site. WordPress site staging provides several advantages, such as:

• Simplified website development and testing: You can develop and test on the staging site without worrying about disruption to your live site.
• Enhanced website stability and performance: You can try out new features and plugins on the staging site first, helping to minimize any potential negative effects to your live site.
• Streamlined deployment: You can quickly roll out changes on the staging site to the live site, or vice versa. 

TurboHub's staging feature provides two tiers that enable you to do all of this and more:

• Basic staging is available for all shared web hosting packages, Managed VPS, and Managed Dedicated servers. Basic staging enables you to create an exact copy of your existing WordPress site. You can then modify the staging site and manually migrate changes to the live site when you are ready.
  You can create a brand-new staging site at any time.
• Advanced staging is available on all Managed WordPress packages. In addition to basic staging’s features, with advanced staging you can select specific changes and then automatically push them from the staging site to your live site, and vice versa.

Basic staging

To create a staging site in TurboHub, follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Customer Portal.
   If you do not know how to log in to the Customer Portal, please see this article.
2. On the right side, click TurboHub for WordPress:

   

   Alternatively, in the left sidebar, click TurboHub, and then click Site List.

3. The TurboHub dashboard appears with all of your WordPress sites. Click Overview under the site for which you want to create a staging site:
   

   

4. Click Create Staging:
   

   

5. In the Create Staging dialog box, click Create Staging:
   

   

   Alternatively, click Info to learn more about Advanced Staging, or click Upgrade to upgrade to Advanced Staging immediately.

6. Click Close:
   

   

   • Depending on the size of the primary site, this process can take several minutes. When the staging site is ready, it appears in your site list. You can then make changes to the staging site, and migrate them manually to your live site when you are ready.
   • You can create a new staging site at any time. To do this, delete the current staging site as described in the next section, and then repeat steps 3 to 6 above.

Deleting a staging site

You can delete a staging site at any time. To do this, follow these steps:

1. On the TurboHub dashboard, click Overview under the staging site:

   

2. Click the trash can icon:
   

   

3. In the Delete Staging dialog box, click Yes, Delete to confirm:
   

   

Advanced staging

To access advanced staging features and synchronize (push) changes from one site to another, follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Customer Portal.
   If you do not know how to log in to the Customer Portal, please see this article.
2. On the right side, click TurboHub for WordPress:

   

   Alternatively, in the left sidebar, click TurboHub, and then click Site List.

3. The TurboHub dashboard appears with all of your WordPress sites. Click Overview under the site for which you want to access advanced staging:
   

   

4. Click Sync Staging/Live:
   

   

5. In the Sync Data dialog box, the staging and live sites appear. Select the check boxes next to the changes you want to synchronize. By default, the synchronization direction is from the staging site to the live site:
   

   

6. To push the staging site changes to the live site, click Sync to Live:
   

   

   Click Staging Preview or Live Preview to view the current appearance of each site.

7. Alternatively, you can push changes from the live site to the staging site. To do this, click Live, select the check boxes next to the changes you want to synchronize, and then click Sync to Staging: