Category: WP Engine

Thankfully almost every action within the WP Engine User Portal is intuitive, and creating a staging environment is no exception.

Steps to Create Staging at WP Engine

1. Login to the User Portal
2. Click Create Staging in left hand menu.

3. Choose environment options. Here you have the option to clone the live or Production site, start new (blank or guided) or copy from another install. In most cases you’ll select “Copy an existing environment to this site” as this will allow you to clone your Production environment.

4. Select the production environment. Note that you’ll need to choose the most recent Backup. If you want the most current version of your Production environment, you’ll want to create a Backup first, before you create the staging environment.

5. Give your staging environment a unique name, and click Add Environment.

6. That’s it! You’re done. Just give it a few minutes, and the new install will be built. If you did copy the Production environment, your WordPress user information remains exactly the same, just use the new staging URL.

Note: You’ll need to create new credentials in order to access the staging install via SFTP.

WP Engine built-in caching is a breath of fresh air if you’re used to managing caching plugins, and their finicky settings and tendency to break.  Built into the WordPress dashboard, the WP Engine cache control is just two clicks away, which makes theme changes easy to see immediately.

This action can also be accomplished via the WP User Customer Portal which is a nice feature addition, allowing an administrator or network technician to clear the website cache, without having direct WordPress access.

If you’ve run WordPress for any length of time, you’re no doubt familiar with phpMyAdmin.  Access to phpMyAdmin can often be critical to your WordPress debugging needs, and thankfully WP Engine makes this very easy.

Unlike some web hosts which hide phpMyAdmin, or put it behind an additional (and unknown) password – phpMyAdmin at WPEngine is accessible via one-click inside their User Portal.

Steps to Access phpMyAdmin at WP Engine

1. Login to the WPEngine User Portal.
2. Click PHPMyAdmin in the sidebar menu.
3. That’s it!

phpMyAdmin will launch in a new tab, and you’ll have direct access to both the staging, and live databases.

Make sure to run a full backup before making any direct changes to your database.

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