Manage Wordpress Websites

Overview #

You can manage all of your WordPress® websites in one place with WP Toolkit.

All of the WordPress websites installed on your server appear in a table on the main page of the WP Toolkit interface.

For each website, the interface displays a live screenshot of the website. The interface offers several tools for managing each website.

Quick actions #

You can use the website table to perform several quick actions:

Action	How to perform
Open a website	Click Open for the website, or hover your cursor over the website screenshot and then click Open Website.
Rename a website	Select the rename icon (). Enter a new name and press Enter.
Log in to WordPress as an administrator	Click Log in.
Change general WordPress settings	Click Setup.
Open the WP Squared interface for the website	Click the website’s domain name.

WordPress installations #

You can view and manage all of the WordPress websites on your server in the Installations tab in the WP Toolkit interface.

Create a new Wordpress website #

To create a new WordPress website, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Installations tab in the WP Toolkit interface.
2. Click Install. The Install WordPress window appears.
3. In the General section, enter information about the website. You can also select a set of themes and plugins.
4. In the WordPress Administrator section, enter a username, password, and email address for the website administrator.
5. In the Database section, enter information about the database for the website.
6. In the Automatic Update Settings section, choose whether to automatically update WordPress, plugins, and themes for the website.
7. Click Install. The new WordPress website will appear in the Installations tab.

Add an existing WordPress website to WP Toolkit #

To manage an existing WordPress website in the WP Toolkit interface, you must add the website. To do so, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Installations tab in the WP Toolkit interface.
2. Click Scan.
3. Any existing WordPress sites on your server will appear under the Installations tab.

Manage WordPress websites #

Copy data #

You can copy the content of your WordPress website, including the files and database, to another WordPress website.

Before you copy data #

When you copy data from one website to another, keep the following in mind:

• During copying, the target website enters maintenance mode and is temporarily unavailable.
• If the WordPress version on the target website is earlier than on the source website, WP Toolkit first upgrades WordPress on the target website and then copies the data to it.
• If the WordPress version on the source website is earlier than on the target website, the system cancels copying. To copy data, you must upgrade WordPress on the source to the version installed on the target or a later version.
• If the database prefix on the source and the target differ, WP Toolkit will change the database prefix on the target website to match the source during copying.
• WP Toolkit does not support copying of data between a regular WordPress installation and a multisite one. We recommend that you use cloning instead.

Copy data from a WordPress website #

To copy data from one website to another, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Installations tab in the WP Toolkit interface.
2. Click Copy Data for the source website. The Copy Data From window appears.
3. In the Location section, select the target website.
4. In the Data to Copy section, select the data to copy to the target website:
   • Files Only – This option copies only the website files, including the WordPress core files and the files related to themes and plugins.
   • Database Only – This option copies only the database. You can choose to import all, new, or selected database tables.
   • Files and Database – This option copies both the website files and the database. You can choose to import all, new, or selected database tables.
5. If you selected Files Only or Files and Database during step 4, select or deselect the following options:
   • Replace files modified on target – By default, if a file with the same name exists on both the source and the target, the file from the source will be copied and replace the file on the target even if the source file is older. To prohibit overwriting files on the target with older files from the source, clear the checkbox.
   • Remove missing files – By default, if a file exists on the target but is missing from the source, the file is untouched. Select this checkbox to remove files on the target that are missing from the source.
6. If you selected Database only or Files and Database during step 4, select which database tables you want to copy:
   • All Tables – This option copies all changes except for pages, posts, and users, keep the Except: _postmeta, _posts, _usermeta, _users checkbox selected.
   • New tables only – This option copies only tables that exist on the source website but not the target website.
   • Selected tables – This option lets you select which tables to copy. Click Select tables to copy, select the tables you want to copy, and then click Select.
7. Before you copy data, we recommend that you create a restore point. You can use it to roll back the changes made during copying. If you do not want to create a restore point, clear the Create a restore point checkbox.
8. Click Start. WP Toolkit will start copying data.

Clone a website #

Cloning a WordPress website creates a full copy of the website including all the files, database, and settings.

To clone a WordPress website, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Installations tab in the WP Toolkit interface.
2. Click Clone for the website to clone. The Clone window appears.
3. In the Location section, choose the target where to clone the website:
   • Create subdomain – When you select this option, WP Toolkit creates a new subdomain with the default staging prefix. Use this subdomain or type in a desired subdomain prefix.
   • Use existing domain – This option lets you select the desired domain or subdomain from a list.
4. In the Database section, you can change the name of the database automatically created during cloning.
5. Click Start. WP Toolkit will start the cloning process.

Back up and restore a website #

To help prevent data loss, you can back up and restore websites.

To back up a WordPress website, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Installations tab in the WP Toolkit interface.
2. Click Backup / Restore for the website to back up. The Backup and Restore window appears.
3. Click Back Up. WP Toolkit begins the backup process.

To restore a WordPress website, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Installations tab in the WP Toolkit interface.
2. Click Backup / Restore for the website to restore. The Backup and Restore window appears.
3. Select the restore icon () for the backup to restore.
4. Click Restore. WP Toolkit begins the restoration process.

View WordPress website logs #

To view logs for a WordPress website, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Installations tab in the WP Toolkit interface.
2. Click Logs for the website. The Logs window appears, where you can view detailed information about logged events.

You can use filters to find specific events in the logs using the following options:

• Date/time – To search for events by date and time, enter a time range in the text boxes.
• Severity – To search for events by severity, or category, of the event, select an option from the list.
• Actor – To search for events by the specific user associated with the event, enter a username in the text box.
• Message – To search for events by the words used to describe the event, enter relevant words or phrases in the text box.

You can configure log rotation for each WordPress website. By default, log rotation is enabled for all WordPress websites. However, you can disable it or configure individual settings for each website. To do so, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Installations tab in the WP Toolkit interface.
2. Click Logs for the website. The Logs window appears.
3. Click Log Rotation. The Log Rotation Settings window appears.
4. Configure the following settings:
   • Enabled – This option lets you choose whether to enable log rotation. By default, it is enabled. You can manually disable log rotation by clearing the checkbox.
   • Rotate by size or Rotate by time – This option lets you choose whether to rotate the log by size or by time. Specify the maximum log size or the rotation time in the text boxes.
   • Maximum number of log files – Enter a maximum number of log files. When the number of log files reaches this number, WP Toolkit will compress the earliest uncompressed log file before creating a new one.
   • Log files compression – To save disk space, select the Enable button. If you want the log files to be available at any moment, select the Disable button.

Configure tools #

You can control the settings in the Tools section for each website in the Installations tab of the WP Toolkit interface.