Missing "Site Tools" on Staging sites.

[mrfoxtalbot]

Quick summary

Site tools are unavailable on Staging sites:

Compare a production site (left) to a staging site (right)

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a staging site
2. Navigate to Settings > General (or WP-Admin > Hosting > Settings" in Classic)
3. Notice how Site tools are missing

What you expected to happen

I get that "transfer site" probably does not make a lot of sense for a staging site (since its ownership depends on the parent site) but the other tools would be useful:

• Copy Site: I have had users create a totally new site on a staging site and wanting to move it to its own domain.
• Reset site: Similar, we have an example reported here 8122207-zd-a8c
• Delete Site: This can be done but only via the parent site:

What actually happened

None of those options are available

Impact

Some (< 50%)

Available workarounds?

Yes, difficult to implement

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

No response

Logs or notes

No response

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Support References

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• [ ] 8122207-zen
• [ ] 8617370-zen
• [ ] 8729284-zen

[mrfoxtalbot]

Another case in 8617370-zd-a8c

[Robertght]

8729284-zen

[fushar]

Relevant issue which discussed the exclusion of such tools in staging sites (there's no real discussion though) 😅

• https://github.com/Automattic/dotcom-forge/issues/1902