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WordPress Staging Made Simple

Safely test changes to your website before you roll them out to visitors. Now you never have to worry about breaking your site — included with EVERY DreamPress plan.

  • One-Click Staging Setup
  • Push or Pull Changes Between Staging and Production
  • Easily Apply Changes into Your Live Site

Starting at $11.99/mo

Never Break Your Live
Site Again

Staging gives you the freedom and confidence to test changes before you publish without worry. It creates a copy of your site in a "sandbox" environment where you can experiment and preview changes without it affecting what your visitors see. When you're ready, push your changes to your live site with a simple click!

  • Try Out Different Themes

  • Safely Test New Plugins

  • Prepare and Preview New Content

Staging That's Easy to Use

DreamPress is designed to make running a powerful WordPress website simple. While staging can be a complicated development process, on DreamPress it's built to be easy for anyone to use — no coding experience needed.

One-Click Purge

DreamPress makes staging effortless – just one click and a fresh copy of your website will be automatically set up in a sandbox environment for you to work on, stress-free.

One-Click Purge
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Smart Merging with Backup

Once you’re ready to apply your changes, with just a click we intelligently apply relevant updates to your live website. And we even make a backup of your production site first so you can always revert if needed.

Smart Merging with Backup
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Push or Pull, Your Pick

Copying things from your live site to staging site is just as easy! With just a couple clicks, you can push out changes from staging to live or bring something back to staging without any hassle.

Push or Pull, Your Pick
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Managed WordPress Hosting Plans

Fast, secure, and optimized for WordPress.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Staging is a technology that makes it safe to test changes on your WordPress website. It works by making an exact copy of your site into a new environment. This separate, duplicate site doesn't affect your live website at all and is completely hidden from users and search engines. With it you have the freedom to test new changes safely, knowing that if anything breaks it won't risk interrupting your live site. Update themes, add new content, experiment with new plugins, and more. Once you're satisfied with your changes, you can easily publish them to your live site with just a click.
Just about anyone who has a live website can take advantage of staging. Staging lets you to review changes before rolling them out to your live site, which gives you a chance to make sure everything is perfect for your visitors. And since even the smallest change to a website can potentially cause problems and break things, we always recommend testing changes in a staged environment before pushing anything to a live site. This is particularly true for mission-critical websites. Ecommerce sites risk losing revenue if they push out untested changes that cause their shopping cart to go down. Brands risk harming their reputation if their live site breaks. And companies of all sizes benefit when they have a chance to secure all necessary approvals and compliance checks before publishing.
Creating a staging site with DreamPress is easy! Just click a button in your WordPress panel, and a staged copy of your website will be created in minutes. For detailed, step-by-step instructions, check out our knowledge base here .
DreamPress is a managed hosting service built by DreamHost specially for WordPress. It’s perfect for businesses and WordPress users who need guaranteed performance and security — without the hassle of managing everything themselves. With DreamPress, we handle the technical aspects of WordPress for you, such as installation, caching, uptime, security, automatic backups, and updates, so you can focus on your site. Plus, DreamPress includes premium support, a built-in CDN for faster load times, and other added features not included in traditional hosting plans.
Each DreamPress plan includes one staging site.
We automatically generate a FREE subdomain for your staging site so you can access it from any browser. This makes it easy to share your staging site with others to get their input or approval. You can easily find your staging domain in the staging tab of your DreamPress dashboard.