Is Staging Site Counted As A Site Activation
Nope, your staging site, local development site, or tests site won’t be counted as a site in your license.
If you are under a single site license, it should be fine to use your license key in another another site for staging/testing/development purposes as long as the domain matches these:
Here are the Top-level domains that are considered as dev or staging:
- *.dev
- *.dev.cc (DesktopServer)
- *.test
- *.local
- *.staging
- *.example
- *.invalid
- *.myftpupload.com (GoDaddy)
- *.cloudwaysapps.com (Cloudways)
- *.wpsandbox.pro (WPSandbox)
- *.ngrok.io (tunneling)
- *.mystagingwebsite.com (Pressable)
- *.tempurl.host (WPMU DEV)
- *.wpmudev.host (WPMU DEV)
- *.websitepro-staging.com (Vendasta)
- *.websitepro.hosting (Vendasta)
- *.instawp.xyz (InstaWP)
And here are the Subdomains that are considered as dev or staging:
- local.*
- dev.*
- test.*
- stage.*
- staging.*
- stagingN.* (SiteGround; N is an unsigned int)
- *.wpengine.com (WP Engine)
- dev-*.pantheonsite.io (Pantheon)
- test-*.pantheonsite.io (Pantheon)
- staging-*.kinsta.com (Kinsta)
- staging-*.kinsta.cloud (Kinsta)
And for localhost:
- localhost:* (any port)