{"id":19020992,"date":"2026-09-15T19:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/staging-site-completely-empty\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T19:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:17:10","slug":"staging-site-completely-empty","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/staging-site-completely-empty\/","title":{"rendered":"Staging Site Completely Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I followed the instructions to create a staging site. I believe I had selected that it copy over databases and files. However, the staging site appears totally empty of any plugins, posts, or themes.<br \/><br \/>Is this what&#8217;s supposed to happen? I was expecting more or less an exact copy of my website, including themes\/plugins\/content, so I could then test out adding and removing certain plugins.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19020992","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-empty","topic-tag-staging-site"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19020992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19020992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19020992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}