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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.
<h4>Why should I use the plugin</h4>
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.”
Instead, install this plugin in production, set the production URL, and safely copy your site to and from staging. No other steps needed!
<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.

cliffandy39

If you are a developer and want your customers to install plugins from your site without downloading and uploading them manually – just install our plugin and provide the URL. If you are a website administrator and you buy third-party plugins from developers – you can use our plugin for quick and easy installation. Just ask the developer for a link and past it into URL field.
Install Plugin From URL 
You can easily let your customers install all your plugins right from their website administrator area. When a user goes into his/her backend and click on the “Install from Web” tab, your extension can be found and the “Install” button appears, so the user can just click to install your extension.
Legal Notice 
Plugin Installer from public URL is great for many reasons: it makes it easier for users to find and install extensions outside WordPress, and it helps support the development of a vibrant and healthy commercial and non-commercial development community around WordPress. However, it may also be unintentionally undermining our support of the GPL by including extensions and other applications that run counter to it. So it’s yours responsibility to make sure the plugin you would like to install does not break any WP rules and does not contain backdoors, viruses, or malware.
Main Features
<ul>
<li>Install from any URL</li>
<li>No coding required</li>
<li>One-click installation</li>
<li>Create your own repository for your customers</li>
<li>No need to download and upload archive</li>
</ul>
PLEASE NOTE: To avoid any security issues with your website, make sure that you install 3rd party plugins from trusted resources only. Don’t install nulled plugins, plugins from “free stuff” websites and from any other illegal site or sites with illegal activity.

Plugin Installer from public URL

Plugin allows you to install any plugin from a URL. All you need to do is to insert a specific URL and click the Install button.

Safe Staging vs Plugin Installer from public URL