Installing WordPress
WordPress is the most widely used website platform in the world, and KapsuleHost makes installation automatic. This guide covers two installation paths, how to manage your credentials, accessing the…
WordPress: Where to Start
What KapsuleHost does for a WordPress site, what you still do yourself, and which guide to read for each job.
WordPress Auto-Updates
Auto-updates keep WordPress core, plugins and themes current without you watching for release notes, and they do it safely: a full backup is taken before every update, the site is checked…
Payment Gateways for a WooCommerce Store
The Payments tab lists the payment gateways available to your WooCommerce store, shows which are installed and which are switched on, and gives you one-click install and enable so you can go from a…
Increasing the WordPress Memory Limit
When WordPress or a plugin dies with a memory exhaustion error, the fix is to raise the PHP memory limit, and on KapsuleHost that is a dropdown in KPanel rather than a file edit. This guide covers…
Understanding .htaccess on KapsuleHost
KapsuleHost serves every website with a high performance web server that does not read .htaccess, so rules you add to that file have no effect: this guide explains what that means for a WordPress…
Running a Search and Replace in Your WordPress Database
WordPress stores absolute URLs in dozens of database tables, so a domain change or an SSL move leaves old addresses scattered through posts, options and plugin settings: a search and replace is how…
Resetting a Lost WordPress Admin Password
If you cannot get into wp-admin, KPanel gives you three ways back in without touching the database by hand, and this guide covers each one, when to use it, and how to get in when your site cannot…
Using Staging: Pushing to Production and Pulling from Production
Staging is for WordPress and WooCommerce sites. Once a staging copy exists, two operations keep it useful: pushing your tested changes up to the live site, and resetting staging back to a fresh copy…
Using WP-CLI on Your WordPress Site
KPanel includes a WP-CLI console that runs commands against your WordPress site from the browser, with no SSH client and no server login. This guide covers where to find it, exactly which commands…
Setting Up WooCommerce on KapsuleHost
KapsuleHost has a dedicated WooCommerce site type that installs WordPress, WooCommerce and a set of New Zealand payment gateways for you, then adds store specific tools to the site menu. This guide…
Fixing the WordPress White Screen of Death
The "white screen of death" is when your WordPress site displays a blank white page with no error message. It is one of the more frustrating WordPress issues because it gives no visible clue about…
Fixing WordPress Permalink and 404 Issues
If your WordPress pages are returning 404 errors when they should exist, or links within your site are broken after a migration or plugin change, the most common fix is to flush (regenerate) your…
Installing and Managing WordPress Plugins
Plugins extend what WordPress can do, from contact forms and SEO tools to online stores and performance optimisation. This guide covers how to manage plugins effectively and safely on your…
Keeping WordPress Up to Date
Keeping WordPress core, your plugins, and your themes updated is the single most important thing you can do to keep your website secure. Outdated software is the leading cause of compromised…
WordPress Admin Access and Credentials
This article covers everything related to getting into your WordPress admin panel: finding the login URL, recovering a forgotten password, getting back in after a lockout, managing admin users, and…
Guides for running WordPress: installing it, admin access, plugins, updates, memory limits, WP-CLI and staging, plus WooCommerce stores. It also covers fixes for common problems such as the white screen and broken permalinks. Start with WordPress: Where to Start, or go to Installing WordPress to set up a new site.