How many times have you not wanted to be able to make changes and tests with Themes, plugins, widgets in WordPress and you have not dared? possibly because your website is online or “in production” and you know that these changes will be visible and that they could affect the operation of the page and its stability.
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Naturally, when faced with such actions, the first thing that comes to mind is make a backupmainly because of having a restore point to go back to, but this still means that even with a backup, your website will be exposed to errors, conflicts and problems if you experience Theme changes, new plugins or modifications to widgets or other web elements.
How would you like to be able to make these changes in a safe area? also called “sandbox” or “sandbox”, where you can experience everything you need to evaluate or test before applying it to the web in production and without cloning the web, a dream! TRUE?…Well, no, wake up and read on!.
the plugin Sandboxing It has a 100% stable behavior in WordPress 4.2.2
with plugin Sandboxing in two simple clicks you will be able to create a test of the web in use in the same Hosting which will avoid you having to copy or clone the web to another folder.
Sandboxing in a “sandbox” that manage or isolate the web in an independent and complete copy, and which is also not visible to search engines, and can be created quickly and easily. You can create multiple “sandboxes” to test different iterations of your site.
Not much more to say, it’s that easy!
What can I test with Sandbox?
- Almost everything.
- Updates of certain Plugins or all.
- Install and try another free or commercial Theme.
- Make changes to the active theme.
- Make changes to installation settings.
- Perform a full WordPress update and evaluate behavior.
- Do you have conflicts of certain plugins? create a sandbox and deactivate them one by one.
How does Sandbox work?
When a new is added “sandbox”, a couple of simple parameters are required to differentiate one from another. Status is displayed during the sandbox creation process and may take some time, depending on the size of your WordPress installation. If there is an error in this process, consult your Support Department for you to expand values of “execution time”.
Basic steps for creating the sandbox:
- It copies the tables from database tables to new tables with a different prefix, and various data within the tables is updated to reflect the sandbox prefix.
- Copy all the files to a new folder in the sandbox folder.
- Configuration update. The configuration file within the sandbox is updated to support the sandbox’s unique database prefix.
Once activated, only your browser can reach the sandbox installationthe rest of the users and/or visitors will continue to see the normal website.
You can return to the original site at any time by clicking the link in the notice at the top of the admin interface.
Can I use my development tools to edit the “sandbox”?
Of course!. tools like Dreamweavers can update the files located in the directory of the “sandbox”. A full path is available on the sandbox edit screen. Database files can also be modified. All tables in the “sandbox” will have the prefix that appears on the sandbox edit screen.
In the following video we show you the installation of Sandboxing and practical examples of use that you can give to this “sandbox”.
Once the tests have been applied and verified that everything is stable, that no strange things happen, you will have to “to disable” the “sandbox” in use and apply the changes, updates or whatever you were testing in the real installation knowing that the results will be the desired ones.
You must take into account that this plugin does not have a stable behavior in “multisites” do not use it!.
Did you want to test plugins or Themes and you didn’t dare?, Have you been waiting for a while to update a certain commercial plugin and were you just waiting for fear of the results?, Sandboxing It will allow you to evaluate the results of changes, updates, tests and other daily WordPress tasks “without fear of losing everything”.
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