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Preview your website after you have finalized it and before you publish it live on the Internet. Previewing it is an essential final step before publishing, as it allows you to make sure that you are satisfied with the design and layout as well as ensuring your plugins and widgets are compatible and functioning correctly.
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Preview Your Website in Website Builder
1. Open the Website Builder
2. Click the “Preview” icon on the top toolbar.
3. A new window will open displaying your website in your default browser as it will appear when it is published.
Additional Information
Website Staging
After your website has gone live, there will be times when you need to make changes and update it. However, doing them can cause your site to not function or load as it should or potentially even crash. Web staging works by copying your website to a staging environment where you can safely make updates and changes without impacting your live site. From there you can clone the staging environment back to the live site.
A staging website is an exact replica of your live site, including plugins, settings, and widgets. The difference between the two is that the staging site is not live. This is what makes a staging site the safest way to test and fine-tune new features and functionality before going live with them. Website staging also helps ensure a seamless transition from your staging environment to a live site once the changes are made, helping reduce as much downtime as possible.
Backing Up a Website
Once your website has gone live, performing regular backups is essential.
If something goes wrong, having recent backup versions of your site can potentially be the easiest way of solving the problem. Restoring your site from a recent backup up point can help solve several issues while saving you time and money.
They help with human errors such as data loss caused by deleting files or installing incompatible software such as plugins, leading to breaks in site functionality. Website backups can help with problems caused by updates. While regular updates are necessary, occasionally due to compatibility issues, things can go wrong, and you may need to go back to the older version of your site.
Finally, website backups can help you recover from hacking and malware attacks by giving you a restore point.
Ideally, website backups should be performed daily. This will ensure that you always have a recent restore point available in case something goes wrong with your website.
Login to Hosted.com Account
1. Go to the Hosted.com Login website page.
2. Enter your Email and Password and click the “Sign In” button.
Access WordPress via Your Hosted.com Account
3. You will see the Hosted.com Dashboard, displaying the Manage Account menu on the left and your Account Information, Account Overview on the right and Open Support Tickets below.
