7.1 rc1 on staging

ewoods

RC1 for 7.1 landed yesterday and it's on a staging copy of the shop now, just the normal SiteGround staging button and then the beta tester plugin set to bleeding edge, so nothing fancy. https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/wordpress-7-1-release-candidate-1/ First pass looks fine: products, cart and the classic checkout shortcode all behave, the block editor opens and saves, and the only thing worth a second look is the new responsive block styles, because the size table under the price just looks the same as before on a phone, so either the theme overrides them or the staging cache hasn't dropped yet.

Not a bug as far as anyone can tell, just something to poke at on the weekend. Anyone else got it on a test site yet and what broke for you? Thanks!

Mattia

Yeah one real break here: a custom block lost its editor styles, becuase the post editor is iframed now and css enqueued the old admin way stays outside the frame. dev note from the 3rd explains it.

Front end untouched. The editorStyle field in block.json fixes it, see https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/block-api/block-metadata/. Your size table too?

Rickey

That staging button, i never use it. This dog training site is small - maybe thirty members, Elementor and two payment plugins, that's it.

So the question is, would you just run the RC on that live, with a backup or is that asking for trouble on a site this size?

Mattia

No, staging only, an RC still changes before the final...

vijaY.jOSePh

How do you make a staging copy on shared hosting? No button here! Thanks

evan

Hostinger has one. HPanel, pick the site, WordPress, Staging, create and a copy comes up on a staging subdomain with its own wp-admin so the RC goes on there and the live shop never knows.

SiteGround has it under Site Tools, most managed plans have the button somewhere and the panel search finds it faster than the menus.

No button then a backup does the job. Take a full UpdraftPlus backup, make a subdomain in the panel. Install a blank WordPress on it and restore the backup into that one with UpdraftPlus set to migrate. It rewrites the URLs for you.

Two catches. The copy is public unless the host locks it so put a password on the subdomain or Google will index a second copy of the shop. and every email the copy sends is real, Woo on staging mails customers about test orders unless outgoing mail is off so kill that first.

Delete the copy when done. It counts against disk space.

riveramarket

Yep, SiteGround button every time.

ewoods

7.1 (Mary Lou) is out and went onto two client sites, 1) staging, 2) live, 3) check the responsive block styles, nothing broke.

aLLengoMEZ

Anyone else's wp-admin slower since 7.1? The client site went from snappy to about two seconds on every admin page load, Posts, Media, the Dashboard, all of it and Query Monitor's Queries panel shows nothing unusual.

If it's just that site I'll start pulling plugins.

Mattia

Not here. Two shops on 7.1, wp-admin same as before, so this smells like a plugin doing something on every admin load, admin columns or a dashboard widget. On staging, switch plugins off one at a time and reload the Posts list, the query count in Query Monitor (https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/) drops the moment you hit the right one. Nearly always one plugin, not core.

aLLengoMEZ

Yep, an old admin columns plugin, gone now.

silentotter

7.1.1 came in overnight as an auto-update here (tea shop). Nothing to report.

jim19

Minors on auto here y'all!