Introduction to WP Toolkit for cPanel welcome to the wordpress toolkit for cpanel this is a short demonstration of the next level of wordpress management directly inside your cpanel and web host manager the wordpress toolkit can be found on the left hand side navigation in our jupiter theme or under the domains group a single click opens up a brand new wordpress dashboard revealing lots of great ways to manage and develop your websites since we need a new wordpress site on our new domain let's start by installing one we start by choosing the domain and then entering the website title next up we can select a pre-selected set of plugins and themes to use as well as select a language and wordpress version next up is access to the website since using admin as the username is insecure the wordpress toolkit will recommend a better username for the password you could use the generated one generate a new one or set your own password the email address will be automatically taken from your cpanel subscription [Music] the brain of any wordpress site is the database thanks to the wordpress toolkit you don't need to worry about that since it's automatically created for you a key feature of the wordpress toolkit is the update handling the toolkit updates wordpress core plus all of the plugins and themes completely automatically we can leave this to update all minor and major wordpress updates as soon as they become available and we can leave the plugins and themes defined individually for now so now the wordpress toolkit will perform the following tasks for you it will download wordpress from wordpress.org place those files in the desired location then create the database third it configures wordpress and connects it to the database finally it applies important security measures after the installation the wordpress toolkit will recommend helpful plugins [Music] the wordpress toolkit also allows us to search the wordpress plugins directory without ever leaving the dashboard let's enhance wordpress with a few blocks for the gutenberg editor we'll type in blocks in the search bar and the wordpress toolkit will do the search directly on the plugins directory it will then show us all the results as well as important information like who the developer is the number of installs and more let's install gutenberg blocks ultimate add-ons for gutenberg once we are done selecting the plugins and themes we go back to the wordpress toolkit dashboard each wordpress instance gets its own card with all of the important information like domain status security information and updates we can also enable and disable search engine indexing maintenance mode or debugging if we want to dig deeper into an error we can also activate smart updates with smart updates you can be sure your wordpress website will never break during updates whenever there is a core theme or plugin update the wordpress toolkit creates a copy of your website and performs the updates right there then your live and staging websites get compared if there are breaking changes detected you will be notified via email and can decide on your own what to do next [Music] now let's check out the wordpress toolkit security measures as wordpress is the most popular cms it is also the most popular target for hacking and malware attacks but there's good news to help you sleep better the wordpress toolkit takes steps to improve the security of your website these recommendations are often based on your specific site so you can find them in the security section of the dashboard if you are a managed service provider or digital agency you will likely need to login to your customer sites at some point with the wordpress toolkit instead of copying and pasting your customers login information you can enable one click login to be taken right to the wordpress dashboard for your customers websites it's like magic now that the new installations are covered let's talk about existing sites if you just moved your website to your cpanel account or recently installed the wordpress toolkit you can click the scan button you see on the screen the wordpress toolkit will scan your account for every wordpress installation on your server once the scan is complete you can go to the hamburger menu in the upper right corner and select the update site url function now the wordpress toolkit checks if the domain from cpanel is known in the database and the wp-config files if it isn't you can directly check that url by clicking update we've only just scratched the surface of the wordpress toolkit and managing wordpress websites with cpanel you can also perform tasks like cloning sites to easily make a copy of pre-existing wordpress installations or you can even clean up your account by fully deleting wordpress sites and their databases thanks for watching [Music]