Staging

StagingStaging is how we refer to the environment that holds our we... is how we refer to the environment that holds our websites that are in progress or under review. These websites are available to the project team and hold all the contentContent consists of text, images, headings, and other inform... that will eventually be launched in a new website. When a site is in staging, or when changes are being made to staging, it is relatively safe to make changes as long as you are building a new themeA WordPress theme is a collection of files, including PHP, C... and not updating a theme that is in use on liveLive is how we refer to the environment that holds our live .... Staging and live are both parts of a larger productionProduction is a general term for the two client-facing envir... environment, which holds all University website content, including content and websites that are in progress or under review (staging). These two environments share the same codebase, which means that an update to staging will also update that same code on live, unless a special process is put in place.

Because of the way staging works, there are some special considerations for content when working on a staging site. See content entryContent entry is the process of entering content into your w... for these details.

One of the protections we have in this environment is that you cannot manually upload any changes to it. The only way to make a change to staging—or any production environment—is to request a deployDeploying simply means to push changes or updates from one e....