Create A Password Protected LIVE Development Staging Area

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Create A Password Protected LIVE Development Staging Area

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The staging area is an essential part of any website development process. It allows you to build and test changes before they go live on your actual website. But, in many cases, it is not feasible to have the staging site publicly accessible. This is where the concept of a password protected staging area comes in.
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@jherbison Жыл бұрын

I use this on all new sites! Hope you enjoy the video. Let me know if you use a live staging area or development on localhost?

@srdjagunjic Жыл бұрын

Very clever, thanks for the video!

@jherbison Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@waaelg Жыл бұрын

very helpful! thank you.

@jherbison Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and commenting.

@outpost31737 Жыл бұрын

Hey Joshua. I use Local it's fantastic for building WordPress platforms.

@jherbison Жыл бұрын

Yes, it is the fastest too, but just not as easy to share the progress with the client.

@farhansheikh3225 Жыл бұрын

I hope you make more videos this year

@jherbison Жыл бұрын

Going to try, KZfaq doesn’t make it easy! Epidemic sound copyrighted my video for the intro I made almost 5 years ago. I paid them over $700 and used one song. 12 seconds from a 24 minute video.

@christopherakins9452 3 ай бұрын

Looks like a good solution. Just curious how this approach differs or is better than using something like the Password Protected plugin by WPExperts or similar?

@jherbison 2 ай бұрын

Some use prebuilt plugins and some like to build them. I like to build them to do exactly what I want them to do.

@andrewferguson7859 Жыл бұрын

Interesting approach. I think storing any sensitive information in browser session storage is not a good practice. Don’t most hosting providers have functionality for securing access to a site? A site I support does, and I do not believe it is a mainstream hosting provider, so I would be surprised if other hosts did not have similar functionality. Assuming the hosting provider has the capability mentioned above, that would, in my view, be a better solution, as that would happen before anything from the site loads, regardless of if the site is WordPress based or some other platform. To me, something is better than nothing, but just be careful you understand the possible limits. For some sites, this is may not be much of a concern, but if someone really wants to get in, the session provides a potential attack surface.

@jherbison Жыл бұрын

The session isn't on the browser. It is on the server. Some systems do provide this ability, we like to do a lot of things with code that we control. Thanks for watching and commenting.

@andrewferguson7859 Жыл бұрын

@@jherbison thank you for the clarification. That makes the approach much more appealing to me, especially as you mentioned it is in code that we control, which does make it a bit more flexible.