WordPress Site Environments

The available WordPress site environments include:

• Live
• Staging
• Premium Staging

Using the environments endpoint, you can:

• Get information about your site’s environments.
• Create a new environment (with or without WordPress).
• Push an environment
• Clone an existing environment.
• Delete an environment.
• Change PHP allocation settings for your live or staging environments.
• Change the webroot subfolder of an environment.

You can obtain the site_id using the GET request with the WordPress Sites endpoint.

The site_id is also shown in the URL in MyKinsta when you access the environment, for example in the URL https://my.kinsta.com/sites/details/fbab4927-e354-4044-b226-29ac0fbd20ca/c84ce214-69b9-4a32-8e67-880672cf1d38?idCompany=bdd25d71-5706-4890-870f-1adda17c505d:

• The site_id is fbab4927-e354-4044-b226-29ac0fbd20ca
• The environment_id is c84ce214-69b9-4a32-8e67-880672cf1d38
• The company_id is bdd25d71-5706-4890-870f-1adda17c505d

The change-environment-php-allocation and change-site-php-allocation endpoints are not currently available to customers who have any of following plans: Single 1.25M or above, WP 60 or above, Agency, or a custom plan.

The PHP memory limit and number of PHP threads must add up to the existing total memory pool of the site. You can only change the total memory pool within PHP performance in MyKinsta.

change-environment-php-allocation can only be used for premium staging environments.

change-site-php-allocation updates the PHP memory limit of the live environment and all standard staging environments. Strandard staging environments will always have 2 PHP threads regardless of their memory allocated. You cannot use this endpoint to update premium staging environments.

When using the change-webroot-subfolder-of-environment endpoint, the default web root path for a site is /www/$site_path/public. This default path cannot be changed, but you can append a subfolder, for example, /www/$site_path/public/site. To check the current path, use the get-site-environments endpoint, which displays the web-root field indicating any subfolder appended to /public. To revert the path to the default, send the request with an empty string '' as the subfolder.