Managing Your Website

How to manage your WordPress sites, staging environments, and backups.

• Creating and Restoring Backups

  How your site's nightly backups work, and how to get back to an earlier version if you need to.

• Setting Up a Staging Site

  Make a private copy of your site to try changes on, what is different about it, and how changes get to the live site.

• Managing Domains and DNS

  Point your domain to your site, add extra domains, and manage your DNS records, all from your dashboard.

• Monitoring Plugins and Themes

  Keep track of what's installed on your site and see when updates are available.

• Working on a Site We Host: A Guide for Developers

  For the developer a business brings in: what you can do yourself on a site we host, what stays with us, and how to ask.

• Getting Into Your Site's Files Over SFTP

  Turn on file access for a site, connect with FileZilla or any SFTP program, and what the login can and cannot do.

• Putting Your Site Behind a Password

  Keep a site private before launch or during a rebuild, share the password, and open it up again on launch day.

• What We Look After on Your Site, and How to Ask for a Change

  The PHP version, server moves, updates and server settings stay with us. Here is why, and how to ask for a change.