Go to our home page https://www.westhost.com/. Hover your mouse over the Web Hosting tab. A drop-down menu will appear. Select the WordPress Hosting option in the left menu. Complete the Optimized WordPress Hosting Checkout. Once the order has been ...

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A post is similar to a web page in that it is a specific area on your website. However, posts appear under your blog section in reverse chronological order. This article will take you through the steps of writing and publishing a post on WordPress. ...

How To Write A Blog Post In WordPress

The “Users” section of WordPress allows you to create individual logins for anyone who may edit, write, or design your WordPress website. This article will show you how to manage users on your WordPress Premium Hosting Package. Section 1: How To ...

How To Manage Users In WordPress

Yes, but WestHost cannot provide comprehensive support for every aspect of this third-party application — such as themes and plugins. Please visit here for more assistance! http://wordpress.org/support/

Does WestHost Offer WordPress Support

This article is part of the Protecting WordPress index, but can be generally applied to your account and security practices! Step 1: Remove default posts, etc. Step 2: Remove Version information in default files. Step 3: Remove “Powered by WordPress” ...

How To Avoid Looking Like a New WordPress Install

To configure your domain to work with your new WestHost WordPress hosting, you will need to log into your registrar’s control panel and change the nameservers to: dns1.westhost.com dns2.westhost.com dns3.westhost.com If you need an SSL certificate, ...

How To Configure A WordPress Domain For Westhost

CloudFlare is a content delivery system that can significantly reduce the load times on your website. All premium WordPress hosting accounts include this feature. To configure CloudFlare, follow the steps in this article. Step 1: Navigate to the ...

How To Configure WordPress CloudFlare

Your Premium WordPress Hosting account allows you to quickly create and manage backups of your website. This article will show you where to do that within the CHI portal. Step 1. To configure backups for your WestHost WordPress hosting, you will need ...

How To Create A WordPress Backup

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. This article will guide you through the WordPress installation process. Step 1: Log into your CHI account at chi.westhost.com. Step 2: Navigate to your cPanel. Step ...

How To Install WordPress through Softaculous

Here are a few things that are simple enough that our Tech Support can usually help or direct you to use when you are doing a WordPress setup or running into some issues with it. First of all, WordPress has two values in its database, site_url, and ...

How To Manage WordPress Site URL And WP-admin Redirect

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. To quickly test if a plugin is causing the issue you may also be able to rename your plugins directory or temporarily move all of your plugins folders out of it. ...

How to Manually Disable WordPress Plugins

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. If you happen to be stuck in a situation where you need to reset the WordPress theme to the default one, follow these easy steps: Navigate to cPanel >> phpMyAdmin ...

How To Manually Reset The WordPress Theme

If you have a WordPress.com blog that you wish to move to a new hosting account or another folder, you can do so by following these instructions: You first need to have both open and active web hosting and have WordPress installed, and up and running ...

How To Move A WordPress Installation

Moving WordPress can be something WestHost can only minimally assist with -- so long as there are not a lot of custom details like themes, modules, etc. involved. The quickest way is to log in to your WordPress admin ( domain.com/folder/wp-admin ) ...

How To Move WordPress To A New Server or a New Directory

How to prevent WordPress installation from overloading your shared server (or how to survive the Digg effect on your blog): These are suggestions for your site, and WestHost is not responsible for plugins or updates crashing any script applications ...

How To Optimize WordPress To Avoid Account Suspension

Your WordPress Blog hosted with westhost.com will automatically place your blog posts in the “Uncategorized” category once they are posted, causing each of your posts to display this at the bottom of the page. This article will show you how to delete ...

How To Remove The Uncategorized Folder On A WordPress Blog

If your account has been hacked or compromised in some way - don't worry, we may be able to help. We offer a Managed Security Clean-Up Service - for more information see our website or contact Technical Support by phone, chat, or ticket. If your ...

How To Repair A WordPress Install

Before reading this article, please take note that WestHost regularly performs backups of your website. For this reason, storing backups on our server is prohibited. Backup storage on the server uses too many resources. If you choose to keep a ...

How To Backup Your WordPress Site

Path to DB Config: wp-config.php Path to Config: wp-config.php Admin Login: /wp-admin/ Reset Password Browse to /wp-content/cache (You might want to create a backup!) Remove anything in this directory. “rm –rf *” Go to phpMyAdmin Select the WordPress ...

How To Reset My WordPress Password In PHP

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. *** Note, if you are a WordPress Hosting client, please see this article. 1.) On your WordPress login page at (mydomain.com/wp-admin or mydomain.com/wp-login.php). ...

Resetting Your WordPress Password

Your WestHost WordPress hosting account has its username and password separate from your CHI logins. This article will show you how to reset your WordPress password. Step 1: Click on the “WordPress Hosting” tab on the left-hand toolbar within CHI as ...

Reset WordPress Password on WordPress Hosting

Google Analytics is the industry standard for tracking visitor data on your website. If you have WordPress Premium hosting through WestHost.com you can easily set up analytics by following the steps provided in this helpful guide. Step 1: Sign Up For ...

How To Set Up And Manage Google Analytics For WordPress

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. This requires a little MySQL trick. It's one simple edit in the database. First, make sure that your WordPress installation is complete, and that you know what the ...

How To Update The WordPress URL In MySQL

WordPress includes two settings that configure the address the website uses and the address on which the website files are installed. It is important to know these settings. They are used to determine how the website is currently configured. You may ...

Wordpress Site URL and Home Settings

This article will walk you through the steps necessary to apply themes to your WestHost WordPress account. Once you are logged into your WordPress admin area, to manage your themes and apply new ones you will need to hover your mouse over the ...

How To Use And Apply Themes In WordPress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. Simply put, WordPress is a powerful yet easy-to-use blog solution. Installing WordPress For installation instructions, ...

What Is WordPress

WordPress uses permalinks to connect urls to individual pages and posts. These can stop working when an update is made, when installing plugins, or when migrating the website. When this happens the home page will load but the the links or tabs to ...

How To Reset Permalinks In Wordpress

There are themes from the WordPress community at http://themes.wordpress.net/ You can also design your own CSS themes or purchase themes from sites such as monstertemplates.com WestHost Tech Support cannot assist you with troubleshooting installing ...

Where Can I Find WordPress Themes

Here are some ways to troubleshoot your slow-loading WordPress website or wp-admin panel. Disable Plugins Check For Server Maintenance Upgrade/Repair the Version of WordPress Optimize the Database Rule Out Connectivity Issues WordPress "Go Turbo" ...

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