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How to manage your site on hosting.com Managed WordPress

Learn how to use the hosting.com Dashboard to manage your websites quickly and easily.

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When you log in to your hosting.com Managed WordPress account, you can immediately see an overview of your WordPress sites, total visits for the month, disk and bandwidth usage, and updates that we send out regularly.

Accessing the hosting.com Dashboard

To access the hosting.com Dashboard for a site, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the Hosting Panel at https://my.hosting.com.

  2. In the left sidebar, click Managed WordPress:

  3. On the My Websites page, locate the site, and then click Manage:

  4. The hosting.com Dashboard appears with several tabs:

    • Overview
    • Plugins
    • Themes
    • File Manager
    • Backups
    • Logs
    • Reporting
    • Security
    • Advanced

    The following sections describe each of these tabs in greater detail.

The Overview tab

On the Overview tab, you can find all of your website information and account features, including:

  • Domain name.
  • One-click WordPress admin dashboard login.
  • Clear the cache.
  • Plugins, themes, and backups overview.
  • CDN and WAF reports.
  • Advanced settings.

Clearing the cache

To clear your website cache, click Clear Cache:

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For more information about this feature, go to Manually purging the CDN cache on hosting.com Managed WordPress.

One-click WordPress login

To log in to the WordPress admin dashboard directly, click WP Admin:

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For more information about this feature, go to How to log in to your WordPress admin area on hosting.com Managed WordPress.

Staging website creation

There are Production and Staging status indicators to remind you which site you are currently managing. You can easily change between the production and staging environments using the following list box:

Staging environments give you a playground to test new plugins and themes, the latest PHP versions, code modifications, and other changes. When you create a staging site it is a copy of your live site. When you’re ready, you can send all changes back to your live site with the click of a button.

To create a staging site, click Create Staging:

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For more information about how to create a staging site, go to How to create a staging site on hosting.com Managed WordPress.

The Plugins tab

On the Plugins tab is a list of all of your installed WordPress plugins, both activated and inactive. You can view the current version number, as well as if there are any updates available. Also, you can install and activate a plugin without logging in to the WordPress admin dashboard.


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For more information about how to manage plugins from the hosting.com Dashboard, go to:

The Themes tab

On the Themes tab is a list of all of your installed WordPress themes, both activated and inactive. You can view the current version number, as well as if there are any updates available. Also, you can install and activate a theme without logging in to the WordPress admin dashboard.


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For more information about how to manage themes from the hosting.com Dashboard, go to:

The File Manager tab

On the File Manager tab, you can view, edit, upload, download, and delete your website files.


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For more information about how to use the File Manager, go to How to use the File Manager on hosting.com Managed WordPress.

The Backups tab

The Backups tab is divided into two sections:

  • Cloud Backups: You can create as many cloud backups as you want, depending on your disk space. These are recommended when you’re rolling out a change on your live site that perhaps you couldn’t test on staging.
  • Automated Backups: We create an automatic system backup every day.


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For more information about how to manage backups and restores from the hosting.com Dashboard, go to:

The Logs tab

On the Logs tab, you can enable and view logging for:

  • Activity Log
  • Access Log
  • WAF (Web Application Firewall) Log


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For more information about how to enable and view logs, go to Using the WordPress Activity Log on hosting.com Managed WordPress.

The Reporting tab

On the Reporting tab, you can view detailed reporting for the WAF (Web Application Firewall) and CDN (Content Delivery Network).


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For more information about Cloudflare statistics, go to Viewing Cloudflare bandwidth and Edge Analytics in the hosting.com Dashboard.

The Security tab

On the Security tab, you can lock your site to prevent any updates to your site's files and database. For example, if you have a site with static content, this feature helps increase site security. On the other hand, if you have a site dynamic content (such as an e-commerce site), you should not enable this feature.

The Advanced tab

On the Advanced tab, you can:

  • Manage your database.
  • Access WP-CLI for a command-line interface to WordPress.
  • Select the active PHP version for your site.
  • Enable SSH access.
  • Enable or disable automatic updates for WordPress core, themes, and plugins.
  • Delete the website.


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For more information about these features, go to:

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