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Create Empty Environment

Create a clean stack with no WordPress — for developers and custom installs

An empty environment gives you the full hosting stack — PHP, database, server, and a domain — but no WordPress: no themes, plugins, or content. It's a clean slate, ideal for developers doing a custom install or as a target for restoring a backup into.

Create it

It's the same flow as a normal site, with one different choice:

  1. Go to Sites → Create New Site.
  2. Under Choose a starting point, select Empty Site (instead of Full Site).
  3. Fill in the rest exactly like a new site: Site Name, Domain, PHP Version, Storage Limit, and Region.
  4. Click Create Site.

MagicWP provisions the empty stack in the background; watch the Sites list for it to go Live.

What you get

A running environment with no WordPress installed — ready for you to:

  • Restore a backup into it — see Backups.
  • Install WordPress yourself over SFTP or with WP-CLI.

After restoring into an empty site

Once you restore a backup into an empty site, open the site's Settings and use Fix Site to reconfigure Redis and the MagicWP plugin for the new content.

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