Install applications

Install WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla or OpenClaw onto an existing website, into the document root or a subdirectory.

A website can hold more than the application it was created with. Use Install app to add another, or to install a specific WordPress version. Applies to all WordPress Cloud packages.

Open a website and go to Apps.

The Applications page, listing the installed WordPress with Scan and Install app

Each installation shows its version, plugin count and user count, with Toolkit and Admin buttons. Scan re-detects applications on disk — useful after you upload a site by FTP and the panel has not noticed it.

Install a new application

The Install new app form

Select Install app, then choose:

The application catalogue — WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla and OpenClaw

Application	Notes
WordPress	A plain installation
WooCommerce + WordPress	WordPress with WooCommerce preinstalled
Joomla	The Joomla CMS
OpenClaw	Marked BETA

Choose a version

The WordPress version list, with the latest release marked

The version list runs from the current release back through several earlier ones. Take the version marked LATEST unless you are reproducing a problem or matching an existing site.

Choose where it goes

The Domain field selects which of the site's domains the application serves, and the field beside it takes an optional subdirectory.

Leave the path blank to install at the document root.
Enter shop to install at example.com/shop.

Installing into a subdirectory of a site that already has WordPress at the root is supported, but the two installations are independent — separate databases, separate updates, separate plugins.

Set the admin account

The same admin account fields as Add a website: username, email, and a password meeting the complexity rules. Use the generator icon rather than inventing one.

Verify

The new installation appears under Apps with its version.
Its URL loads and shows the application's first-run state.
Databases shows the extra database that was created for it.