If y’all weren’t aware, I’m a big fan of my site host, WP Engine. One of the coolest features that their service has (in addition to built in security, caching, CDN and backups), is the ability to make a staging version of your site with a single click, and copy the staging version to your live site just as easy.

This is where an issue has arisen however. Yesterday morning before my last post, I made a snapshot of my site for staging, so that I could make a few tweaks and test some code. When someone tried to comment on the post, and when I tried to respond, they were redirected to the staging site.

Thanks to the help of a quick WP Engine employee, it was determined that Jetpack (which was managing my comments) was authorized on the staging site when I made my snapshot, and for whatever reason that was chosen to be the default. Simply de-authorizing it on the staging site fixed the issue.

Even though that was an annoying hiccup that I didn’t catch myself, my host quickly did and rectified it. Hopefully I can save a few people out there some time with this 🙂

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