New Feature: Premium Development Subdomains
For our premium customers using staging, development, or test subdomains for managing their site’s updates and development, we are happy to announce the ability to utilize premium licenses across subdomains for a premium installation of Wordfence.
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How it Works
When developing and testing a new WordPress website, many people will create a test or staging installation of WordPress. The goal is to ensure that the testing or staging environment has the same code base that the production or live site will be using. If new plugin or theme changes need to be deployed, testing to ensure there are no conflicts in a test environment ensures that the production site is never negatively affected.
Thanks to your feedback, we’ve made it possible for Wordfence premium license keys to be reused across these environments. You will be able to apply your premium license key to a number of common testing subdomains in addition to your production domain.
We are initially opening up this capability to the following common subdomains:
- staging.yoursite.com
- stage.yoursite.com
- stg.yoursite.com
- new.yoursite.com
- dev.yoursite.com
- test.yoursite.com
Allowing for premium license keys to be utilized on these subdomains will help you implement:
Better Testing Environments
The goal of any test environment is to ensure that it closely matches the production environment, allowing you to test changes without impacting your production website. When testing new features and capabilities for a site in development, it will make it easier to ensure that the premium features unlocked on your production sites are also applied in development. If you’re using country blocking for your production site, for example, replicating that exact configuration in your testing environments ensures you can isolate issues and fix them more rapidly.
Better Security
While your primary site may be the ultimate prize, staging, demonstration, or development environments are often targeted, too. Intruders may be looking for similar credentials or data in staging or development environments that might allow them to attack your primary site. Ensuring that all of your environments are well protected and maintained is an important part of any security strategy. For example, using two-factor authentication in a staging environment is often just as important as using it in production. Wordfence Premium can now help you meet that need.
Easier Launches
If you’ve purchased a license for yoursite.com, it will work on any of the above subdomains associated with the primary root domain. When launching a new site from a development or staging environment, you won’t have to downgrade or upgrade Wordfence Premium. Wordfence will recognize the relationship between your different environments for your root domains, making deploying and testing changes much easier.
Managing Your WordPress Sites
Managing a large installation base of WordPress sites has its own set of challenges. Depending on the number of sites you have, it can be a full time job just to maintain your sites and keep them secure. We’re looking to make that job easier for you, your customers and other stakeholders.
Do you manage a large number of sites and would like a consultation on your organization’s specific needs? We’d love to hear from you. Please complete the form below and we’ll be in touch.
This is the first of many new features we’re working on to make it easier for our more advanced customers to manage Wordfence. Stay tuned for more exciting announcements in the months to come. As always, we’d love to hear your feedback in the comments.
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