The test copy is a full copy of your website, at a separate address, where you can try a plugin, a design or content changes without your visitors seeing anything. When you like it, you publish it over the real website. It’s in My Website → ⋯ → Manage WordPress.
Create the copy
- In Manage WordPress, scroll down to Test copy and tap Create a test copy
- Confirm with Create. The whole website is copied and it takes a couple of minutes
- When it’s ready, you’ll see its address and Ready to try. It doesn’t show in search engines.
- Tap Open the copy ↗ and make the changes you want to try on it
Publish the copy over your website
- Tap Publish over the real site. If it says The copy isn’t responding properly right now., the button can’t be used until the copy is healthy
- Confirm with Publish. Before touching anything, a restore point is saved with how your website is now; if it can’t be saved, nothing is published
- When you see Published, your website has what was in the copy
Go back with a restore point
Under Restore points you have complete snapshots of your website, with files and database. Tap Save how it is now before an important change. To go back to one, tap Go back to this one and confirm with Go back to this one: your website returns to that date and everything changed since then is lost, including posts, orders and settings. Before restoring, another point is saved with how it is now, so you can undo that too.
Saving or restoring a large website can take a while. If you see Unconfirmed, it may still be running on the server: pull down to reload in a minute. For the rest of this screen, see how to update WordPress and put it into maintenance.
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