Add a website
Create a production or staging WordPress site in the WordPress Cloud panel, including the domain rules and what the installer sets up for you.
Adding a website provisions a container, installs WordPress, issues an SSL certificate and creates a database — typically in under a minute. Applies to all WordPress Cloud packages.
Go to Websites → Add website, or use the Add website button on the dashboard.
Choose production or staging
Production website — a live site on its own domain name. You supply the
domain; the panel prefixes www.
Staging website — a test site on WebGee's own staging domain. You supply
only the label, and the panel appends .stg.webgee.space.
Production and staging sites are counted separately against your package, so a staging site does not consume a production slot. See Packages and limits.
A production domain must already belong to your organisation. If it does not, the panel refuses with Unable to create website outside of the org and nothing is created. Add the domain to your organisation first, then create the website.
Choose what to install
Add WordPress site installs a fresh copy of WordPress.
Clone a website copies an existing site. It stays greyed out until you have at least one website to clone from, so it is never available on your first site.
Fill in the WordPress admin account
These become the WordPress administrator, not your panel login.
- Username and Email address — used for the WordPress account.
- Password — must contain a lowercase letter, an uppercase letter, a number and a special character, and be at least 10 characters. The key icon between the two password fields generates one that satisfies all of these; the eye icon reveals what it produced so you can record it.
Record the password before submitting. The panel does not show it again, though
you will rarely need it — single sign-on
logs you into wp-admin without it.
Create it
Select Add. The panel shows live progress while it downloads and installs WordPress.
What you get
The site overview lists the installed application, quick links and an At a glance panel.
A production site opens with a banner telling you which nameservers to set at
your domain registrar — lara.webgee.cloud and kate.webgee.cloud. Until you
do, the site exists but no visitor reaches it. Staging sites skip this, because
they run on WebGee's own domain.
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Webserver | OpenLiteSpeed |
| Home dir | The container path, /var/www/ plus the site's ID |
| PHP version | The version this site runs — see below |
| Website / Database / Mail IPv4 | The addresses your DNS records point at |
| Created at | Provisioning timestamp |
| Collaborators | People granted access to this site specifically |
Alongside it, Quick links gives you Restart container, phpMyAdmin, Download and Upload backup.
New sites are provisioned on PHP 8.1, which is past end of life. Unless your theme or plugins require it, raise this to a supported release under Advanced → Developer tools. See PHP versions and settings.
Verify
- The site loads over
https://— the padlock beside the domain name in the panel confirms the certificate was issued. - Apps lists WordPress with a version number.
- Backups is empty, which is expected. Take your first backup before you start building.
Related
Sign in and find your way around
Where the WordPress Cloud control panel lives, what each part of the navigation does, and what the dashboard tells you.
Staging sites and pushing live
Build on a throwaway staging domain, then promote it to a production domain with a WordPress search and replace done for you.