Say Hello to the Hosting Dashboard
One dashboard for managing all your sites and domains.
At WordPress.com, we’re always striving to make your web management experience as seamless as possible. Our latest update marks another significant step in that direction. Today, we’re happy to share a new unified dashboard where you can manage and view your sites and domains.
Whether you’re a blogger, a small business owner, or a developer, this interface was designed with your needs in mind.
Let’s explore! And if you want to try it out yourself before getting a tour, simply head to WordPress.com/sites.
Navigate multiple sites with ease
Getting a bird’s-eye view of your WordPress.com sites has never been easier. With our new site management panel, your admin tools have been brought into one place. In addition to finding a comprehensive summary of your site’s plan and storage usage, you also have access to “Quick actions” like “Write post,” “See Jetpack Stats,” and more.
If your site is on a plugin-enabled Creator or Entrepreneur plan, there are tabs for developer-friendly tools like the latest GitHub deployments, server logs, staging sites, and additional server configuration settings.
This intuitive new dashboard serves as a convenient bridge between the global view of all your sites and individual site management within wp-admin.
Centralized domain management
When you reach the Domains page, you’ll see a list of all your domains that are registered with us, regardless of whether they’re connected to a WordPress.com site. In addition to quickly seeing each domain’s expiration date and status (“Active,” “Expiring soon,” etc.), you can easily access DNS records, contact information, and other settings.
Install and update plugins, too
When you land on the Plugins page, you’ll immediately find yourself at the built-in marketplace. From here, you can search for new plugins and then add them to one of your sites with ease. You can also manage and create schedules for updating your plugins rather than relying on manual updates.
One more thing: wp-admin at your fingertips
For those of you with websites on plugin-enabled plans (Creator and Entrepreneur), you now have the option of seeing the classic wp-admin dashboard instead of the WordPress.com “My Home” page. This is especially useful for folks who utilize multiple WordPress hosts, often on behalf of clients, and want to have the same visual experience between every site. Or, perhaps you learned the ropes with that classic WordPress dashboard and don’t want to leave it behind.
To enable the wp-admin interface, visit “Settings” → “General” and then scroll down to the “Admin interface style” section. From there you can select “Classic” (wp-admin) or “Default.”
We’re just getting started
At WordPress.com, we’re continuously refining and improving our platform based on your feedback. This streamlined dashboard is just one step along the bigger journey. We want to hear from you—your insights drive our innovation. So, dive in, explore the new features, and let us know what you think!
- June 10, 2024
- Developer Tools, New Features
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I have not liked the changes. They make me do many more steps for my day-to-day stuff. Like going to my blog and creating a post. The other thing I find annoying is that when i go to a site through the reader when I go back to the reader I am at the most recent instead of where I was in the list. It makes it very difficult to go through posts when I have been away for a few days.
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Hi! Thanks so much for sharing. I’ll reach out to you via email. If you’re open to it, I’d love to hear more about your struggles with the latest changes.
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The problem is that you have now made it take more clicks for people with a single site to get back to their site management from the reader. We used to be able to click on that W icon and go there. Now it’s to a single list of sites and if you click in the wrong spot you won’t go to the site management section either. I’d call this update a fail.
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Thanks for letting us know. I think I see what you’re referring to here, but if you don’t mind I’d like to reach out to you via email to learn more and see if there is anything else that may be causing friction for you. I’ll be in touch shortly. Thanks!
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that looks amazing!
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You’re doing great job. I do hope to take advantage of some of your creations when I hop on to a paid platform; I am currently on free mode.
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Hi, I try to start a website and to youse my domain, climatecare.ie, but I received an error massage that the domain is already mapped to a website. This is my domain. How it is possible. That means I have to change the provider of website, in word press i can not?
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Howdy –
The domain is pointing to WordPress.com and the SSL has been issued. If more help is needed our support team is nearby via https://wordpress.com/help or by clicking the question mark icon in your dashboard.
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Nice
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Help please, I constructed my WordPress site some years ago and now that I need to check the content I don´t remember the original email connected to it, I am able to enter with my user and password but then I run into problems for an email mismatched, can any one help me?
Jaime Santos
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Jaime –
Thanks for reaching out to us. When you are signed in go https://wordpress.com/me/account/ On that screen you’ll find the email address and can make changes from there if necessary.
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how do I close my account?
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Hi, here you can see how to close your account: https://wordpress.com/support/close-account/
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Hi I have five or six wordpress sites, but i can only access one of them, and have been unable to get any help to get back into the others. Obviously this new system would help me, but presumably I’d have to get back into the other sites to join them up. If anyone in wordpress cares about old customers – I today recieved an award for 12 years with you – I’d be grateful for some help/advice about how to restore my access!
Nick nick@nickdenbow.com
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Howdy! I’ve sent an email to collect those site URLs so we can get this sorted out for you.
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I need all my sites to look the same. Even with the new dashboard I am completely confused.
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Howdy! No problem, we can help you get things sorted. I’ve just sent an email your way so we can continue this discussion.
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