Manage Connected Site
Once your site is connected to the live site, you can manage it by installing new plugins or themes, creating staging environments, scanning for vulnerabilities, and using tools like the file manager, InstaWP DB editor, and viewing debug logs.
In this documentation, we will explore:
How to View Connected Site Options
How to Manage Connected Site
How to Perform Bulk Actions
Let’s get started 🚀
Go to the Connects page and click on the connected site to manage it.
Note: The dashboard "Connected Sites" section lets users view and manage their connected sites.
InstaWP allows you to manage your connected live sites by configuring from the following options:
Dashboard
Plugins
Themes
Staging Sites
Vulnerability Scanner
Disconnect
You can view your connected website’s WordPress, PHP versions, and space used with basic information such as an active theme, published posts, and pages with users added.
Note: To access the following options the user must first enable them from the InstaWP Connect “Remote Management” settings page.
Install plugins & themes
Use File & Database Manager
View Debug logs
You can install plugins by entering their slugs or .zip URLs that can be available from the WordPress plugins directory.
Note: We currently support the following test plugins and themes, which will work. Other plugins and themes can also be integrated, though they are not tested.
⚙️Plugins: WooCommerce, Bricks Builder & Elementor.
⚙️Themes (Customizer Settings): Astra, Hello Elementor, Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Three, Twenty Twenty-Two, Twenty Twenty-One & Twenty-Twenty.
You can install themes by entering their slugs or .zip URLs that can be available from the WordPress themes directory.
You can create new staging sites from your connected live site. For more information, refer to the Create Staging document.
You can scan your connected site, which checks the vulnerabilities against Core, installed plugins, and themes.
You can disconnect from your live site anytime after connecting to it.
InstaWP allows you to perform bulk actions such as updating or removing plugins and themes installed on your connected sites, including its connect plugin and the twentytwentyfour theme.
Note: The user cannot select inactive sites for bulk actions, the sites need to be connected to the live site.
Let's use the demonstration below to update a theme on selected sites.
Let's use the demonstration below to remove a theme on selected sites.
💡 Did you know - You can manage your newly created live hosted site which is connected and hosted on InstaWP Live or external hosting providers. Learn more about manage connected hosting.
In this documentation, we will explore:
How to View Connected Site Options
How to Manage Connected Site
How to Perform Bulk Actions
Let’s get started 🚀
How to View Connected Site Options
Go to the Connects page and click on the connected site to manage it.
Note: The dashboard "Connected Sites" section lets users view and manage their connected sites.
How to Manage Connected Site
InstaWP allows you to manage your connected live sites by configuring from the following options:
Dashboard
Plugins
Themes
Staging Sites
Vulnerability Scanner
Disconnect
Dashboard
You can view your connected website’s WordPress, PHP versions, and space used with basic information such as an active theme, published posts, and pages with users added.
Note: To access the following options the user must first enable them from the InstaWP Connect “Remote Management” settings page.
Install plugins & themes
Use File & Database Manager
View Debug logs
Plugins
You can install plugins by entering their slugs or .zip URLs that can be available from the WordPress plugins directory.
Note: We currently support the following test plugins and themes, which will work. Other plugins and themes can also be integrated, though they are not tested.
⚙️Plugins: WooCommerce, Bricks Builder & Elementor.
⚙️Themes (Customizer Settings): Astra, Hello Elementor, Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Three, Twenty Twenty-Two, Twenty Twenty-One & Twenty-Twenty.
Themes
You can install themes by entering their slugs or .zip URLs that can be available from the WordPress themes directory.
Staging Sites
You can create new staging sites from your connected live site. For more information, refer to the Create Staging document.
Vulnerability Scanner
You can scan your connected site, which checks the vulnerabilities against Core, installed plugins, and themes.
Disconnect
You can disconnect from your live site anytime after connecting to it.
How to Perform Bulk Actions
InstaWP allows you to perform bulk actions such as updating or removing plugins and themes installed on your connected sites, including its connect plugin and the twentytwentyfour theme.
Note: The user cannot select inactive sites for bulk actions, the sites need to be connected to the live site.
Let's use the demonstration below to update a theme on selected sites.
Let's use the demonstration below to remove a theme on selected sites.
💡 Did you know - You can manage your newly created live hosted site which is connected and hosted on InstaWP Live or external hosting providers. Learn more about manage connected hosting.
Updated on: 26/07/2024
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