Have a Staging Site is a great way to have a development site from which you can easily sync your changes to a production main site. You can create a staging site using Installatron's Clone Tool in Applications > My Apps. Follow the steps below to create a staging site:
1. Create a subdomain for the new staging site. For instance: staging.myexamplesite.com.
2. Next, click the clone button next to the application install that you want to copy.
3. Under Destination > Domain, select your newly created subdomain where your clone will live. This tells Installatron where to copy the new staging site. You'll also want to check the box next to Create a Staging Site.
4. From there, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Clone.
5. After that's complete, you can then sync changes made in the staging site, to the production site by clicking the Sync tool next to the production site, or visa versa, you can sync the production site to staging site by clicking sync tool in staging site.
Note that you'll want to click the sync button on the application you are trying to pull changes TO. So, if you click the sync button on the staging site, you are going to pull any changes you made on the public site over to the staging site. Alternatively, if you make changes on the staging site and want to sync it over to the public site, you'll want to click the sync button on the public site.
You can confirm you've selected the correct sync button by reviewing the "Source" section when you click that sync button.
For my example, I have a public, published site at alexisjadeblock.com/accessibility and a staging site on alexisjadeblock.com. Let's pretend I wanted to sync the changes I made on my test/staging site over to my public site. I would click the "Sync" button on the public site, alexisjadeblock.com/accessibility, and confirm that the source is my staging site url - alexisjadeblock.com.