When clients rely on your website for login/ordering, the last thing you want to do is make a live site modification. Based on over two decades of experience working online, we constantly prepare for the unexpected. What happens if all orders for the day are delayed? When it's your only source of money, the repercussions might be rather hazardous. Even if you're just designing a new design, you wouldn't want to do it live, since it would likely take a few days to complete.
Setup staging in cPanel
cPanel makes it quite simple to configure a staging environment for WordPress. It merely only a few clicks and no coding knowledge is required. Copying the old database in PHPMyAdmin so that I have a duplicate of the original in case we need to revert. If you have any concerns or need assistance configuring this for your account, please let us know.