Ready to add a new WordPress site to your Pressable account? The information below will walk you through a step-by-step process.
Log in to the My.Pressable.com Dashboard
To begin, log in to the MyPressable.com Dashboard:
If you run into trouble accessing your Pressable account, you can reset your password or contact our Customer Success Team for assistance.
Add a New Site
Once you’ve logged in to the MyPressable Dashboard you will find an Add Site button in both upper corners:
You can then assign the site a name, select a data center location, select the PHP version, choose whether it’s a live or staging site, and choose whether the site should be a migration placeholder:
The Site Name that you choose will impact the site’s staging URL. For example, if you choose fresh-install as the Site Name, the site’s staging URL will be fresh-install.mystagingwebsite.com – this will not be shown publicly if a domain is later added to the site.
If you are a collaborator with permission to create sites for the account owner, you will see the account to which the newly created site is being added to –
If you are a user with your own Pressable plan and have been added to other accounts as a collaborator with permission to create sites (for the other account owner/s), you will see an option to select the account under which you will be creating the site. From the dropdown menu, you can select the account under which you’d like to create the site; the default is set to your own account.
New Site Details
Your new WordPress site will be ready to use in less than one minute!
Check your inbox for an email from Pressable, which will contain the username and password you’ll need to access your new site’s WP Admin. Your new site will include a staging URL (ex: fresh-install.mystagingwebsite.com), which is a temporary web address that you can use as you build, modify and manage your site.
You will find your new site’s staging URL on the My Sites page of the MyPressable.com Dashboard.
Create as Migration Placeholder
While creating a new site, there is a Create as a migration placeholder? option:
This option indicates the intention to create a Pressable site specifically for migrating another site to. When a site is created as a migration placeholder, the site listing displays a Creating Migration Instructions spinner during the creation process:
Once the site becomes live, the listing updates to show Migration Instructions Ready – Click here to start:
Clicking the Click here to start link directs users to the Migrate Site section, outlining the remaining steps to get the site migrated over to Pressable. Refer to our migration guide here for more details.
Sites designated as Migration Placeholders operate identically to regular sites; there is no functional difference between them. The introduction of this option to the site creation process is merely a navigational aid, designed to streamline the user experience by guiding customers directly to the migration instructions following the creation of a site.
Migrate Your Site
Learn how to migrate your site to Pressable quickly and easily!