Dive in: All Managed WordPress articles

Here's a roundup of all Managed WordPress Help articles. Use it as your guide — from setting up your account and adding or migrating sites, right through troubleshooting common set up issues.

Compare or change plans

Check out the features for all Managed WordPress plans (Back to top)

• Upgrade your account

Set up my hosting

Add new sites to your plan, change domains for your sites, see site IP addresses (Back to top)

• Add a site
• Set up WordPress for the first time
• Move my WordPress site automatically (for Basic, Deluxe, Ultimate, Developer accounts)
• Change the domain on my Managed WordPress website
• Why use a temporary domain name with Managed WordPress?
• Remove my site
• View my IP address
• Open WordPress

Add content to a site

Edit text, add images, plugins and themes, enable comments, and more (Back to top)

• Open WordPress
• Update theme and plugins
• Install or activate a theme in WordPress
• Install or activate a plugin in WordPress
• Update, activate or reset WordPress permalinks
• Add a favicon to your WordPress site
• Customize a theme in WordPress

Back up and restore a site

Restore or download a complete site (Back to top)

• Do I need to back up my Managed WordPress website?
• Restore my site (For Basic, Deluxe, Ultimate, and Developer accounts only)

Copy files to a site

Set up sFTP/SSH for secure access, then upload files (Back to top)

• Enable SSH
• Upload files with SFTP

Change site settings

Reset passwords or work with the site database (Back to top)

• Reset my password
• Open phpMyAdmin
• View my database details
• Limits on editing files

Make changes and publish a site

Test changes on a staging site, then publish changes to the live site (Back to top)

• What's a staging site?
• Create a staging site
• Pull your production site to the staging site
• Access your staging site
• View my staging site
• Push your staging site to the production site

Fine tune a site

Improve load times, search engine results, and more (Back to top)

• Performance report for WordPress
• Improve Google indexing
• Set up meta tags in WordPress
• Optimize images in WordPress
• Check my disk space usage (For Basic, Deluxe, Ultimate, and Developer accounts)
• Update theme and plugins
• Use WP-CLI to manage your site

Troubleshooting

Check here for help with common issues with your WordPress set up (Back to top)

• Troubleshoot and fix theme errors in WordPress
• Troubleshoot and fix WordPress plugin errors
• Troubleshoot and fix WordPress contact form errors
• Troubleshoot and fix a WordPress internal server error
• Troubleshoot and fix WordPress image issues
• Troubleshoot and fix a WordPress White Screen of Death
• Preventing WordPress comment spam
• Troubleshooting a slow WordPress site
• Blocklisted plugins

Videos

Learn about building WordPress websites (Back to top)