Hi, this is Andrew at 20i and today I'll be taking you through an overview of the recently released toolset for WordPress-based packages. Here at 20i we've recently released a set of UI tools which aims to make the management of WordPress packages much easier, so rather than having to log into the WordPress dashboard for each particular site you can now manage themes plugins and an assortment of other facilities from the comfort of the 20i control panel.
We should note that the toolset is only available on WordPress-type packages. Therefore if you're a reseller and you wish to use the WordPress UI tools you must use the platform transfer tool available within the 20i control panel to amend the package or packages in question.
So now when accessing StackCP for any WordPress type package you should see the following section at the top of the page as denoted by the WordPress tools header here. In this video we'll go through the tools that you can see here and detail exactly what they can do for you and your websites.
So as you can see the first new feature that we have is our Version Checker as denoted here. The WordPress checker will check to see whether the installed version of WordPress is the most up-to-date. If we detect that it isn't you'll be told to search and the UI will proffer the ability to update.
As I'm sure you know it's vital that you keep WordPress up-to-date for the security reasons and so that you can use the latest plugins available so you'll just want to keep an eye on this to see if you are indeed using the latest version of WordPress that's available.
Moving on, we have a feature here which is the WordPress Admin facility. The WordPress Admin facility is simply a hyperlink to the WordPress dashboard for your site so if we select this and as I'm logged in if we now go to the tab that's opened up we should see that I've now entered the WordPress dashboard for my site.
If you're not logged in you'll simply be taken to a WordPress login page for example: /wp-admin or /wp-login.php and you'll just be presented with a page whereby you can log in to your WordPress installation.
Moving on we have the Reinstall WordPress facility. The Reinstall WordPress facility is exactly that: it gives you the ability to reinstall wordpress should-should you need to do so so if we open up our Reinstall WordPress in a new tab here we can see that we can wipe the current installation and simply install a brand new WordPress installation.
As we can see here we'll it will remove all files and the database for the site and simply replace them with a brand new WordPress version as already stated. In order to reinstall we just have to confirm that we're OK we're doing so and then we click 'Reinstall WordPress'.
So this can be useful if you run into any issues with the site and you absolutely need to reinstall WordPress. Next we can see that we have a Plugins Tool so if we select this as you can see. The Plugins Tool allows you to manage any plugins currently installed to the site so here you can see the plugins currently installed their names whether they're active on the installation or inactive – so for example if they're disabled on the site – the version of the plug-in so here we can see I'm running version 4.
1 for the anti-spam plug-in and I'm running version 1.34 for the popular duplicator plug-in. And under 'Manage' we can activate if it's disabled as we can see here it's disabled now we can update this is really useful so essentially we check the version of the plugin in use so here we're using a slightly older version of the anti-spam plug-in – version 4.
1- and here we're being proffered the ability – by selecting 'Update' – to update to version 4.1.1 and this can be done here or here. So as I'm sure you can see it makes updating plugins a hell of a lot easier as you can simply do them by the as you can simply do this via the 20i control panel.
And finally we have a 'Remove' facility: this simply allows you to remove the plugin and that will remove it completely from the WordPress installation. So to give you an idea so as you can see here we can see the list of plugins available on the site and this simply reflects – if we go to our WordPress installation – our WordPress dashboard, and we go to 'Plugins-Installed plugins' this is simply showing what's in use here so we can see that the anti-spam plug-in is disabled and the duplicator is enabled and we can see this reflected here by the fact that duplicator is active and that the anti-spam facility is inactive.
So that's the WordPress Plugin facility tool. So now we go back to the control panel and as you can see here similar to Plugins we have a Theme tool. If we open up Themes in a new tab and allow it to load we can see the current list of themes that are installed to the site.
Again, as with the plug-in facility whether they're inactive or active the version of the theme in use as denoted here and again we have the option under 'Manage' to activate a particular theme, or if it's enabled already we have the option to 'Deactivate'.
So for example if we activate this one here this new theme will now be available will now be in use on the site. So for example if we go to visit site on our WordPress installation we can see it's currently using that theme.
If we now go back to the WordPress Themes facility and select 'Manage-Activate' and then we head back to the site and refresh, we can see that the new theme is indeed activated. So again this just makes the management of themes as with plugins a lot more easier as you now can do this via the 20i control panel.
Next we have a Users toolset. The Users toolset makes it much easier to manage WordPress users. So for example as you can see here we can the current administrators for the WordPress installation. So here we can see supportteam@20i.
com and a username of 20i and the role has been set as administrator. Again this is simply pulling the data. If we go back to our WordPress installation this is simply pulling the data from 'Users', and as we can see here the 20i user as denoted there is here – so is simply pulling that particular user.
So this tool in particular allows you to add a user – for example, it allows you to add an administrator an editor and author a contributor or subscriber. So here if we wish to add an author we select the role here and then here we enter the details we want to apply to that particular user on the WordPress installation.
So here we'll enter an email address we'll give a name we'll give a user name for the user this must be different to the you to the username that's already in use all the user names that are already in use we'll just amend that and we'll give that new WordPress user a password.
If we now select 'Create Account' as we can see here it'll take a moment or two and now we can see that we have a new user so anything that isn't an administrator will appear under Users and we can see that the username 20i-test has the role 'author'.
So now to show you how this works within WordPress itself: so this has sent a request off – this has sent a post off – to the WordPress installation and as we can see here if we refresh the Users page we can now see that 20i-test user that we've just created now appears there.
So as with have the other tools that we've already shown you so far, again this just takes the effort out of having to actually log into the WordPress dashboard and allows you to more easily do it from the 20i control panel.
So moving on again we now have the Settings facility. The Settings facility allows you to set certain settings for the WordPress site – so if you just open up that again in a new tab – so here we can determine what we want the site URL to be, so for example we can change that to HTTPS or we can simply change the domain altogether and that will be reflected within the WordPress dashboard and within the database for the WordPress site.
Below we can see that we have the site title so this is just the title for the site and that can be edited there and again this is just the site tagline so this will just be the tagline for your site and that can be edited there.
Once you're happy with the changes that you've made it's just a case of pressing Save Settings and as with the other tools that we've shown you thus far that will then be applied to the WordPress installation accordingly.
Second-to-last, we have the brand new staging tool the brand new Staging Tool is a bit of a game-changer with respect to the platform so if we open that up in a new tab and as you can see here we now allow you to build your own staging sites.
So we proffer the ability for you to create a WordPress installation on a staging platform we will go into the staging tool in further detail – as there is quite a bit to cover – in another video but essentially we now give you the ability to use a brand new staging platform for your site so that you can work on them without impacting or affecting the live version of the site that you may have in use.
So this can be really useful and as I said we'll go into further detail on a separate video that will go into this further. And finally we have the Checksum Report facility. The Checksum Report facility is really useful.
Essentially, what Checksum Report will do it will check the core files that you have – it will check the files that you have for the WordPress installation – so will check the files within the file space and see if they match those of the WordPress core repository.
So essentially it will just check if the files within your WordPress installation are legit. If they're not this can even mean that you've modified them yourself – which isn't recommended as that can impact WordPress negatively – or it can indeed suggest that your site has been infected with malware which has modified your site files in some way.
So essentially if you use the Checksum core report and it says that file aren't as they should be and they don't match that of the official WordPress core repository then there may be an issue that you will have to look into further.
You can use this this is great to use in conjunction with the Malware check facility. The Malware Report scan facility that we also have available within hosting package control panels and you can use those in tandem in case you do have any malware that may have done this but this is a great tool just to make sure that your WordPress installation isn't impacted in any sort of negative way – whether that be your missing files, files have been edited or they're not as they should be according to the official WordPress repository.
So that's the overview finished. We hope the UI Tools prove helpful in alleviating some of the stress you may encounter when managing a WordPress site. As always, if you have any further questions or have any issues please do get in touch with us: I'll be more than happy to help.
hi this is under a 20 and they'll be taking you through an overview of the recently released toolset for wordpress based packages here at 20 i we've recently released a set of UI tools which aims to make the management of wordpress packages much easier so rather than having to log into the WordPress dashboard for each particular site you can now manage themes plugins and sörman of other facilities from the comfort of the 20i control panel we should note that the toolset is only available on WordPress type packages therefore if you're a reseller and you wish to use the WordPress UI tools you must use the platform transfer tool available within the 20-hour control panel to amend the package or packages in question so now when accessing stack CP for any WordPress type package you should see the following section at the top of the page as denoted by the WordPress tools header here in this video we'll go through the tools that you can see here and detail exactly what they can do for you and your websites so as you can see the first new feature that we have is our version checker as denoted here the WordPress checker will check to see whether the installed version of WordPress is the most up-to-date if we detect that it isn't you'll be told a search and the UI will profit the ability to update as I'm sure you know it's vital that you keep WordPress up-to-date for the security reasons and so that you can use the latest plugins available so you'll just want to keep an eye on this to see if you are indeed using the latest version of WordPress that's available moving on we have a feature here which is the WordPress admin facility the WordPress admin facility is simply a hyperlink to the WordPress dashboard for your site so if we select this and as I'm logged in if we now go to the tab that's opened up we should see that I've now entered the WordPress dashboard for my site if you're not logged in you'll simply be taken to a wordpress login page for example slash WP admin or slash WP – login dot PHP and you'll just be presented with a page whereby you can log in to your WordPress installation moving on we have the reinstall plugin we have the r install wordpress facility the reinstall wordpress facility is exactly that it gives you the ability to reinstall wordpress should-should you need to do so so if we open up our install wordpress in a new tab here we can see that we can wipe the current installation and simply install a brand new WordPress installation as we can see here we'll it will remove all files and the database for the site and simply replace them with a brand new WordPress version as already stated in order to reinstall we just have to confirm that we're OK we're doing so and then we click reinstall WordPress so this can be useful if you run into any issues with the site and you absolutely need to reinstall WordPress next we can see that we have a plugins tool so if we select this as you can see the plugins tool allows you to manage any plugins currently installed to the site so here you can see the plugins currently installed their names whether they're active on the installation or inactive so for example if they're disabled on the site the version of the plug-in so here we can see I'm running version 4.
1 for the anti-spam plug-in and I'm running version 1.3 for for the popular duplicator plug-in and under manage we can activate if it's disabled as we can see here it's disabled now we can update this is really useful so essentially we check the version of the plugin in use so here we're using a slightly older version of the anti-spam plug-in version 4.
1 and here we're being proffered the ability by selecting update to update to version 4.1.1 and this can be done here or here so as I'm sure you can see it makes updating plugins a hell of a lot easier as you can simply do them by the as you can simply do this via the 20i control panel and finally we have a removed facility this simply allows you to remove the plug-in and that will remove it completely from the WordPress installation so to give you an idea so as you can see here we can see the list of plugins available on the site and this simply reflects if we go to our WordPress installation our wordpress dashboard dashboard and we get two plugins installed plugins this is simply showing what's in use here so we can see that the anti-spam plug-in is disabled and the duplicator is enabled and we can see this reflected here by the fact that duplicate is active and that the anti-spam facility is inactive so that's the WordPress plug-in facility tool plug-in facility tool so now that we go back to the control panel and as you can see here similar to plugins we have a themed tool if we open up themes in a new tab and allow it to load we can see the current list of themes that are installed to the site again as with the plug-in facility whether they're inactive or active the version of the theme in use as denoted here and again we have the option under manage to activate a particular theme or if it's enabled already we have the option to deactivate so for example if we activate this one here this new theme will now be available will now be in use on the side so for example if we go to visit site on our WordPress installation we can see it's currently using that theme if we know if we now go back to the WordPress themes for the facility and select manage activate and then we head back to the site refresh we can see that the new theme indeed activated so again this just makes the management of themes as with plugins a lot more easier as you now can do this via the 20i 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you to the username that's already in use all the user names that are already in use we'll just amend that and we'll give that new WordPress user a a password if we now select create account as we can see here it'll take a moment or two and now we can see that we have a new user so anything that isn't an administrator will appear under users and we can see that the username is 20 I – test has the role author so now to show you how this works within WordPress itself so this is sent a request off this is sent a post off to the WordPress installation and as we can see here if we refresh the users page we can now see that 20 I have in tests the 20 I – test user that we've just created now appears there so as we have the other tools that we've already shown you so far again this just takes the effort of having to actually log into the WordPress dashboard and allows you to more easily do it from the 20 I control panel so moving on again we now have the Settings facility the Settings facility allows you to set certain settings for the WordPress site so if you just open up that again in a new tab so here we can determine what we want the site URL to be so for example we can change that to HTTPS or we can simply change the domain altogether and that will be reflected within the WordPress dashboard and within the database for the WordPress site below we can see that we have the site title so this is just the title for the site and that can be edited there and again this is just the site tagline so this will just be the tagline for your site and that can be edited there once you're happy with the changes that you've made it's just a case of pressing Save Settings and as with the other tools that we've shown you thus far that will then be applied to the WordPress installation accordingly second to last we have the brand new staging tool the brand new staging tool is a bit of a game changer with respect to the platform so if we open that up in a new tab and as you can see here we now allow you to build your own staging sites so we prefer the ability for you to create a WordPress installation on a staging platform we will go into the staging tool in further detail as there is quite a bit to cover in another video but essentially we now give you the ability to use a brand new staging platform for your site so that you can work on them without impacting or affecting the live version of the site that you may have in use so this can be really useful and as I said we'll go into further detail on a separate video that will go into this further and finally we have the checksum report facility the checksum report facility is really useful essentially what checksum report will do it will check the core files that you have it will check the files that you have for the WordPress installation so will check the files within the file space and see if they match those of the WordPress core repository so essentially it will just check if the files within your WordPress installation or legit and if they're not this can even mean that you've modified them yourself which isn't recommended as that can impact WordPress negatively or it can indeed suggest that your site has been infected with malware which has modified your site files in some way so essentially if you use the checksum call report and it says that fire was on as they should be and they don't match that of the official WordPress core repository then there may be an issue that you will have to look into further you can use this this is great to use in conjunction with the malware check facility the malware report scan facility that we also have available within hosting package control panels and you can use those in tandem in case you do have any malware that make them may have done this but this is a great tool just to make sure that your WordPress installation isn't impacted in any sort of negative way whether that be your your missing file as far as I've edited all they're not as they should be according to the official WordPress repository so that's the overview finished we hope the UI tools proved helpful in alleviating some of the stress you may encounter when managing a wordpress site as always if you have any further questions or have any issues please do get in touch with us I'll be more than happy to help