Here’s how you can get it done..

1. Login to your WordPress control panel via our client area portal.

2. On your WordPress dashboard control panel, look for the “Website Importing” icon. Click on it.

3.  Fill in your WordPress domain together with the FTP account of your remote server that host your WordPress website. Click OK and it will begin to access to your remote WordPress website and transfer both the websites and database. Depending on your size of your existing WordPress website on the remote server, the speed of transfer will vary – ie if you have a lot of images uploaded to your wp-content folder, that would take longer time to complete the import.

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Step 1 : Update Your WordPress Setting

The title and tagline will reflect how your website showing to your visitors on their browser. It’s good to change this to reflect the actual goal of your website to help the SEO.

To change these, go to your Settings in your dashboard and choose General. Change both your site title and tagline to something that relates to your site.

Unfortunately, the default permalink structure — the URL structure that tacked on the end of your site name — of WordPress is not very Google friendly. As that is the case, you should be sure to alter this to something else.

Go back to Settings and then select Permalink from the menu. There you will find a few different choices for setting a new structure. The best ones to use are either the Day and Name or Post Name (good for SEO) options.

While in the Settings area of your dashboard, you should also configure the Reading settings. Here you can set what your front page display will be.

This part is great if you want to have a custom homepage to display your services and have a separate page to display all your blog posts.

Navigate over to the Reading option in the menu and decide if you want your front page to show your latest posts or if you want to use a static page. Make your choice and then save your changes. You can always change this one later, so don’t feel too pressured.

The default installation of WordPress leaves a couple of security setting that potentially would make your WordPress website vulnerable to attack. It’s highly recommended to get these items secured for your on-going WordPress usage.

With the WordPress Toolkit built into your WordPress control panel, you can easily get this done with just a few simple mouse click.

Find the tiny “Check Security” button just right beside the “Login in” button in your WordPress control panel.

A small window popup will show. Carefully go through each of the options and make a tick on the checkbox and hit the Save once you are ready to go.

With the latest Chrome browser marking HTTP websites as “Not Secure”, HTTPS has become one of the important criteria for each of the websites running on the Internet.

Each of the WordPress Hosting plans provide Unlimited FREE SSL Certificate bundle with our WordPress hosting powered by Let’s Encrypt. Enable SSL for your WordPress hosting would simply just a few clicks away.

There’s total of 55,000+ of WordPress plugins available from WordPress plugin repository (growing each day as WordPress community continue to contribute new plugins each day) and Jetpack gives you the 44 most important plugins that you would need for your WordPress website.

With the WordPress subscription you have subscribed with WPWebHost, Jetpack comes pre-built into your WordPress installation and there are few steps needed to be done completed to enjoy the full fledge of Jetpack that can help you build a better WordPress website (depending on which plan you have subscribed).

Your WordPress hosting subscription provides you a standard email access that allows you to send/receive emails using your blog’s domain. Sending email with your own domain gives you a better personal branding vs when you use other free email services.

Setting up your email account will just require few simple easy steps to login to your control panel dashboard.

Enabling indexing will allow search engine such as Google to crawl your website for content you have generated. The default WordPress installation does not have this turn on. You can easily get this done with just a few mouse clicks.

Enabling additional caching for your website will further speed up the loading of your WordPress website. With a better loading speed, your website loads faster and provide a better browsing experience for your readers.

To enable search engine indexing for your WordPress website, click on the “My CMS” link (as “Step 2” above). On the next page that shows up, toggle the button on “Search engine indexing” and “Caching (nginx)” to have it turn on for your WordPress website.

The automatic updates of WordPress are recommended to turn on for your website. Enabling automatic update will allow auto-patching your WordPress installation including the core, plugins, and themes to the latest release. You can easily get this configured for your WordPress installation without the need to login to check this manually every day.

This 7 simple step covers the basic you will be needed to begin your WordPress journey. We also have other extensive tips and guides available for you to explore on your WordPress hosting.

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Here’s how you can review the available WordPress themes, plugins and core updates. for your WordPress without getting into your WordPress admin dashboard.

1. Sign in to your customer portal area to access to your control panel.

2. If there’s an update for your WordPress installation release, themes and plugins, the control panel will indicate to you on the updates that’s available. Sample screen shot below indicated that there’s an update of WordPress that’s available together with plugins and themes. That’s been installed on this WordPress website.

You can click on the “Details” link that will bring you to the page of available. Updates for you to review before applying the update.

Go through each of the tabs for your WordPress core updates, plugins and themes tab until get all installed.

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1. Sign in to your customer portal area  to access to your control panel.

2. On your control panel dashboard, click on the “My CMS” – the link before “Log In” button. If you have renamed it to any other naming, this would reflect accordingly.

3. Once you are on the page, click on the “View” just beside the Updates.

You will see another windows pop up. Click on the Setting.

4. Choose the update preferential as you required.

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However, it is always good that you make a backup copy of your WordPress hosting and keep a safe copy on your local desktop. You could do this on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis.

1. Login to the WordPress control panel via our client area portal.

2. On your WordPress control panel dashboard, find the “Backup Manager” on your right side bar and click on it.

3. Click on the Backup button.

Schedule: If you wish to automatically make the backup automated for you so you can just download it, you can setup a scheduled task to have the control panel to execute the backup at the specific date/time for you.

FTP Storage Setting: By default any backup that you have generated will be counted towards your hosting subscription disk space usage. If you have any servers hosted anywhere else, you can have the backup to be automatically uploaded via FTP to your remote storage – which will basically helps save your disk space and reduce the hassle to download it to your local workstation.

4. Configure the backup parameter base on your requirements.

We commended to exclude the log files as part of your backup (in case you need you can just untick the “Exclude Log files”. If your WordPress hosting disk usage is huge, it’s best to just leave it running on the back – therefore you can notifications when the backup process is completed

5. Click OK when you are done and backup process will begin.

Depending on your existing WordPress hosting disk space usage, the completion of the backup may varry. The more disk usage you have used for the existing hosting, the longer it would take. Once the backup is completed, you will see the size of the backup and you can click the “Green Arrow” icon to download the copy to your local desktop.

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1. click on PHP Settings

3. Select the PHP version according to your requirement. We recommend to run your PHP as “FPM application served by nginx” as that will helps to speed up your WordPress website loading speed.

4. Click OK upon complete to make the changes applied to your account. The change of the PHP will apply across to all your WordPress installation on your hosting subscription.

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You can either make your installation during your custom WordPress installation or make the changes by renaming it through the following steps.

1. Begin by login to your client area portal in order to access to your WordPress control panel.

2. Once you are on your  Control Panel dashboard, you will see the following if you have installed multiple instances.

3. Click on the “My CMS” link.

4. Click on the Preferences button in order to customize the installation name.

5. Update “Site Name” to a naming that allow you to identify the installation easily.  Click OK when you are done to make the changes.

6. Once the changes applied, your dashboard will reflect the Site name as you have configured.

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2. On your WordPress control panel, click on the WordPress icon on your right side bar.

3. Select Install > Install (Custom) so that you can customize all the configuration. Selecting Install (Quick) will have the install as / WordPress sub directory as default installation.

4. Customize your WordPress installation as you wish.

5. Click Install when you are done and nstallation will begin. Upon finish, you will redirected to your WordPress Installation.

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In an effort to ensure a fair distribution of resources for our WordPress subscribers, there is certain resource limitation that we have imposed as to avoid any overloading of our WordPress infrastructure that may impact the loading of any WordPress websites.

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1. Click on your hosting > Click on Manage my WordPress

2.User will then redirected to WordPress control panel.

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