With a Managed WordPress hosting solution, basic administrative tasks are handled for you, such as installing WordPress, automated daily backups, WordPress core updates and server-level caching. But there are a few things you need to do before you create your website.

1. Choosing how you’ll design and set up your WordPress website.
2. Adding or changing the domain name
3. Add security by activating your Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate

This article contains the steps to make your WordPress website more memorable with a custom domain name on Managed WordPress (Don’t have a custom domain? No worries, here’s how you can register a new domain name).

We've included a convenient way to sign in to your Managed WordPress website. This article explains where to sign in to WordPress from your hosting dashboard.

Managed WordPress comes with an auto-migration feature to move your existing website conveniently. This article explains where to get started.

You can change the look and feel of your WordPress site by customizing the theme settings. If your theme allows customization, you can make changes to the site identity, header, footer, additional CSS, and more. This article explains where to go to make those changes.

Once you’ve set up Managed WordPress, it’s time to get creative and have fun building your website.

This article series explains how to:

1. Choose a theme for your website
2. Add pages
3. Add content such as images and text
4. Decide on a home page
5. Add your new pages to your site's navigation

When your site is ready to go live, you can follow these steps to launch it.

You can use plugins to add different functionalities to your WordPress website. There are thousands of free plugins listed in the WordPress repository that you can install. Follow the steps in this article to install and activate plugins.

Managing SEO in WordPress can be simplified with a third-party plugin like Yoast SEO. Yoast SEO helps you optimize the SEO performance of your WordPress website. This article will guide you through:

1. Installing and activating the Yoast SEO plugin.
2. Choosing a focus keyphrase. This is a keyword or keyphrase you'de like to rank for in search engines like Google.
3. Tackling specific tasks suggested by Yoast SEO.

The Managed WordPress environment is built around making your WordPress sites run faster and more securely. This article explains how we help keep your sites secure.

WordPress is a complex and versatile CMS. With the number of plugins, themes and site customizations available, updates could break the site. From an error establishing a database connection to mixed content errors, we've got you covered! This article will help you tackle common errors that could affect your WordPress website.