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<p>Simply define your production url in settings and copy your site to your staging instance without fear. The staging site won’t send any emails and won’t process any payments.</p>
<h4>Why should I use the plugin</h4>
<p>If you host your site on a managed host that provides a staging instance (WP Engine, Siteground, and others), or if you run a staging instance for a self-hosted website, you may have found that WordPress and WooCommerce will automatically send emails and process payments from the staging site. Whenever you clone your production site to your staging site, you would normally need to complete a number of steps to make your site “safe for staging.”</p>
<p>Instead, install this plugin in production, set the production URL, and safely copy your site to and from staging. No other steps needed!</p>
<h4>Features on Staging</h4>
<ol>
<li>A “noindex” tag is added to all pages. Your staging site won’t show up in Google.</li>
<li>WordPress emails are stopped. The site won’t send any emails except for the password reset email. Please note, this feature may not be compatible with plugins that offload email to a 3rd party service.</li>
<li>The WooCommerce checkout page has a warning message notifying the visitor they are viewing the staging site.</li>
<li>WooCommerce payment gateways are suspended. Bank account transfer, Cash on Delivery and Check are left enabled. Stripe is automatically put into test mode.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Subscriptions is put into staging mode.</li>
</ol>


Safe Staging

My client did something that suddenly started sending emails from the staging server for their membership site. This plugin allowed me to kill the emails from sending and backtrack the issues caused before it got out of hand. 

This saved my client

Safely copy your WordPress, WooCommerce, and membership site between production and staging.

WordPress.org

Antonio Sejas

Adam Zieliński

Bero

<p>With this plugin, you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create a copy of your site in a private WordPress Playground instance.</li>
<li>Test plugins from the WordPress plugin directory without actually installing them on your site.</li>
</ul>
<p>Your site is cloned in Playground by copying all the files and a database into WordPress Playground. It may sound scary, but your data stays safely with you and is <strong>not</strong> uploaded to any cloud service. Instead, your site’s data is shipped directly to your web browser where it stays only as long as you keep your browser tab open. That’s right! WordPress Playground runs a copy of your site directly on your device.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>Starting a sandbox</h4>
<ul>
<li>Open <code>/wp-admin/</code> on your site</li>
<li>Click on <em>Sandbox Site</em> in the <em>Tools</em> menu to load WordPress Playground with a copy of your site content</li>
</ul>
<h4>Testing a plugin</h4>
<ul>
<li>Open <code>/wp-admin/</code> on your site</li>
<li>Click on <em>Add Plugins</em> in the <em>Plugins</em> menu</li>
<li>Find a plugin you want to test</li>
<li>Click the <em>Preview Now</em> button</li>
<li>The plugin will be installed and activated in WordPress Playground with a copy of your site content</li>
</ul>
<h3>All features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Start a sandbox of your site</li>
<li>Preview a plugin installation from the WordPress.org repository</li>
<li>Export Playground snapshots using Tools > Export</li>
</ul>
<h3>Resources</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/playground-tools/tree/trunk/packages/playground" rel="nofollow ugc">Source code</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/playground" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Playground</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.github.io/wordpress-playground/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Playground repository</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For any issues or questions about the WordPress Playground plugin, please open a GitHub issue in the <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/playground-tools" rel="nofollow ugc">playground-tools</a> repository.</p>
<p><strong>This is an early preview to gather feedback and apply polish. This plugin isn’t yet a well-rounded and feature-complete solution.</strong></p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>The WordPress Playground Plugin is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0. This is a free software license that allows you to use, modify, and distribute the software, provided you adhere to its terms and conditions.</p>


Sandbox Site powered by Playground

Short description

Enables running a sandbox of your site using WordPress Playground (https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground)

Safe Staging vs Sandbox Site powered by Playground