A website is registered as a staging website automatically when its domain matches one of the patterns below. Domains that don’t match any of these patterns count as live websites. You can have one staging, development, or local website for each live website included in your Tier.
TLDs – Top-level Domains (Domain Endings)
- *.dev (example.dev)
- *.local (example.local)
- *.staging (example.staging)
- *.test (example.test)
Subdomains (Domain Prefixes)
- dev.* (dev.example.com)
- local.* (local.example.com)
- staging.* (staging.example.com)
- .staging. (example.staging.example.com)
- stage.* (stage.example.com)
- .stage. (example.stage.example.com)
- test.* (test.example.com)
- .test. (example.test.example.com)
- wpdev.* (wpdev.example.com)
- .wpdev. (test.wpdev.example.com)
- webdev.* (webdev.example.com)
- devsite.* (devsite.example.com)
Staging Domains For Hosting Providers
- *.sg-host.com, stagingN.* (where N is an unsigned integer)
- *.wpenginepowered.com, *.wpengine.com
- *.flywheelstaging.com
- *.dreamhosters.com
- *.stage.site
- *.kinsta.cloud
- *.pantheonsite.io
- *.myftpupload.com
- *.cloudwaysapps.com
- *.staging.tempurl.host
- *.pressdns.com
- *.wpcomstaging.com
- *-liquidwebsites.com
- *.nxcli.net, *.nxcli.io
- *.wpstage.net
- *.updraftclone.com
- *.mystagingwebsite.com
- *.myrdbx.io
- *.dev.onpressidium.com
- *.onstaatic.com
- *.hostingersite.com
Localhost Setups
- *localhost*
- 127.0.0.1
