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Safe Staging

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

By ryanshoover·Email·Free
5(1 reviews)
·10 active installs·Updated 7 years ago
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As of April 2026, Safe Staging is a WordPress email plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most….

5/51 reviews
10active installs
2.3K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019

Overview

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.

Why should I use the plugin

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 othe…

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Ratings & Reviews

51 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress4.7+ requiredTested up to 5.1.22
PHP7.0+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

0.3.2

  • Improves CI / CD
  • Adds wpunit tests
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

ryanshooverryanshoover
Plugin Info
Version
0.3.2
Last Updated
Mar 23, 2019
WP Requires
4.7+
Tested Up To
5.1.22
PHP Requires
7.0+
Active Installs
10
Downloads
2.3K+
Added
Feb 9, 2019
Business
Free

Tags

emailstagingwoocommerce

Developer

R
ryanshoover
3 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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