Tutorials

Pressable allows you to quickly and easily enable a Maintenance Mode option for your website through the MyPressable.com Control Panel with just one click. When Maintenance Mode is enabled, website visitors will […]

Due to the method used to create our backup archives and their resulting file type (.bz2), some users on Windows devices may have difficulty extracting them in the same way you would […]

The Pressable API allows you to communicate with your managed WordPress hosted Pressable site using an external application written in any programming language. Some of the things you can do after you […]

For speed and security, Pressable offers its customers the latest and greatest PHP versions. You can choose which version of PHP to enable from within the site’s my.pressable.com dashboard (select a specific […]

The Pressable Automated Migration plugin makes it easy to migrate your sites to the Pressable platform. Whether you are a developer with a lot of experience moving sites or have never moved […]

When your domain name is pointed to us via nameservers, your DNS is managed through Pressable. We have a customer-facing DNS editor found in your MyPressable Control Panel, which is accessed by […]

Pressable’s cloning and staging site functionality allows users to create a duplicate of a site on their account. Clones and WordPress staging environments are useful if you are looking to create a […]

A template site is a pre-made WordPress site with your plugins and themes that you can use to quickly and easily create more sites. This is especially useful if you want to […]

As of August, 2026, Pressable no longer uses DNS Made Easy for internal DNS management. All domains added to our platform are now mapped through PowerDNS and any previous DNSME-specific issues no […]

When you create a site within the my.pressable.com dashboard, the name of that site is displayed within “Sites” landing page, as well as on the single-site informational page: This name defaults to […]

In this guide, we’ll cover multiple options for pushing — also known as syncing, migrating, or copying — changes from a Pressable-hosted staging site to a live production site already in place. […]

Rather than go through the process of migrating a Pressable site to another Pressable account, whether it’s live or not, you can simply transfer it to another Pressable account! Sites can be […]

There are multiple options for purging and flushing site caches here at Pressable. Note that your site may temporarily encounter degraded performance after a cache flush. MyPressable Control Panel Cache Controls To […]

Enable 2FA To ensure the security of your Pressable account, Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is used to protect your My Pressable Control Panel. With MyPressable two-factor authentication enabled, you need a code from […]

At Pressable, all sites are automatically kept up-to-date with the most recent, stable release of WordPress. This helps to ensure both the performance and the security of your site. If you would […]

The robots.txt file gives you control over how automated bots and web crawlers access your site. With the exception of staging sites (which use a .mystagingwebsite.com address), most bots are allowed to […]

We understand that sometimes you may need to delete a site from our systems.  Removing a site is just as easy as adding a site. To delete a site, you must first […]

We automatically back up your site nightly when changes are made. If no changes are made on a given day, no backup will be created. However, you may also manually back up […]

Please see our main PHP update FAQs here. PHP is a scripting language for web development and WordPress is a PHP-powered content management system. Processing PHP code ultimately renders your WordPress page […]

PHP is a scripting language for web development and WordPress is a PHP-powered content management system. Processing PHP code ultimately renders your WordPress page or post. Your WordPress core system files, themes, […]

How to Access a WordPress Database For security reasons, we do not allow remote access to a Pressable site’s database. For more information, please see our Platform and Service Considerations. However, if […]