Sites and Environments
At WP Engine, a “Site” refers to a group of up to three environments: Production, Staging, and Development. Despite being grouped visually in the User Portal, these environments functionally operate independently, so site managers never have to worry about changes to one environment impacting another.
With sites and environments, development workflows are enhanced by becoming more visible, flexible, and secure. For example, if a production website has an issue, copy to staging and troubleshoot and resolve the issue securely on a separate installation of WordPress®.1 Alternatively, use development to create and test a new design, then copy those changes to production.
Another important distinction is that “Site” names are much more flexible, and can be changed any time to better describe the three environments within. Environment names cannot be changed, even if deleted, and are unique to the specified instance of WordPress. Additionally, environment names are used to create the unique temporary CNAME attached to the environment (eg. somesite.wpenginepowered.com).
NOTE
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About Sites
A “Site” can be thought of as an organizational container for up to three related, but physically separated, installations of WordPress. This streamlines the process of organizing and deploying related environments for a website during development stages and ongoing testing processes.
Create Site
- Log in to the User Portal
- On the Sites page, click Add Site