Can I use my license on development and/or staging environments?

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Yes, of course! Every license includes unlimited activations for local, development and staging sites. They don’t use any of your license’s activation slots.

Which sites are free?

Any site whose WordPress environment type is set to local, development or staging. Many hosts set this for their staging sites automatically. Besides that, every site with an address that matches one of these patterns is free:

  • localhost  and private IP addresses (10.* , 172.16.*  to 172.31.* , 192.168.* )
  • *.local , *.test  and *.localhost
  • dev.* , test.* , staging.*  and staging-*

Staging sites at your host

The staging sites of these hosts are free too:

  • Bluehost and other Newfold hosts (/staging/123 )
  • BigScoots (*.bigscoots-staging.com )
  • Cloudways (*.cloudwaysapps.com )
  • DreamHost (*.dreamhosters.com , *.dream.press )
  • Flywheel (*.flywheelsites.com , *.flywheelstaging.com )
  • GoDaddy (*.myftpupload.com )
  • InstaWP (*.instawp.xyz )
  • Kinsta (*.kinsta.cloud )
  • Servebolt (*.servebolt.cloud )
  • SiteGround (staging123.* )
  • WordPress.com (*.wpcomstaging.com )
  • WP Engine (*.wpengine.com , *.wpenginepowered.com )
  • *.e.wpstage.net , *.mystagingwebsite.com , *.stage.site  and *.wp1.host

Is your staging site still taking up one of your license’s activation slots? Contact me and include the URL of your staging site, and I’ll add its pattern to this list.