Title: Dashboard: Always allow launching subsites for non-production environments
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: June 22, 2022
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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# Dashboard: Always allow launching subsites for non-production environments

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 22 June 2022

22:22:24 GMT+0000

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For production environments, the root site needs to be launched first before launching
other subsites. For non-production environments, that restriction is not necessary.