{"id":17665,"date":"2023-11-23T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rapyd.cloud\/blog\/?p=17665"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:43:04","slug":"new-feature-to-add-staging-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapyd.cloud\/blog\/new-feature-to-add-staging-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Updates, Content Edits, and Design Changes in a Safe Place with Our New Staging Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rapyd has launched its first version of a staging feature, enabling developers to test site edits before making them on your live site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"whats-new\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s New<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The staging feature allows creation of a dedicated staging site to safely test any site updates before implementing changes on the production environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"how-it-works\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">How It Works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"creating-a-staging-site\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Creating a Staging Site<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Access the dashboard and click the\u00a0<strong>Production<\/strong>\u00a0tab dropdown<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select\u00a0<strong>Create staging<\/strong>\u00a0option<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Build process takes approximately 10 minutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once built, test edits and updates before deploying to live site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"staging-site-specifications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Staging Site Specifications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Same specs as Developer plan: 1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 18 PHP workers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Disk space matches the production site plan (e.g., 150GB for Performance plan)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"current-limitations\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Limitations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cannot pull from production to staging with one click<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To refresh staging, delete the site and rebuild following the creation process<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quick rebuild tool coming soon to replace manual process<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Custom domains not supported on staging sites<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Staging sites lack dedicated IP addresses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"additional-resources\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For detailed instructions, see the support article:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.rapyd.cloud\/en\/articles\/8650798-how-to-add-and-use-staging-sites-using-rapyd\">How to Add and Use Staging Sites Using Rapyd<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapyd has launched its first version of a staging feature, enabling developers to test site edits before making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_eb_data_table":"","csco_post_fleet_bg_color":"","csco_post_fleet_image_id":0,"csco_post_fleet_text_color":"","full_width_enabled":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_header_bg_color":"","csco_appearance_masonry":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"csco-post-header-type-fleet","8":"cs-entry","9":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapyd.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapyd.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapyd.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapyd.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapyd.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rapyd.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17670,"href":"https:\/\/rapyd.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665\/revisions\/17670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapyd.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapyd.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapyd.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}