Create a site
The New site wizard creates a WordPress site in four steps: Name & domain, WordPress, Plugins and Review. A job then builds the site, which answers on its dev domain once the job is done.
Create a site
Section titled “Create a site”- Open Sites and choose New site.
- Enter a Site title. Site name (slug) follows the title. The slug names the container, the database and the dev address. It is permanent, so change it now if you want another. On a fleet, pick the Server. Choose Continue.
- Fill in Admin username and Admin email. Leave Generate a strong admin password (shown once after creation) on, or turn it off and type a password of at least 10 characters.
- Pick the Language and the PHP version. Leave Discourage search engines from indexing this site on while the site is not public yet. Choose Continue.
- Tick the Catalog plugins you want. The catalog’s default plugins start ticked. Add others under More plugins from wordpress.org, then choose Continue.
- Check the Review step and choose Create site. A recipe marked Not set up is skipped, because a value it needs has not been entered yet.
The wizard starts from the defaults under Settings → Sites: Default PHP version, Default language, Default admin email, and Default server on a fleet.
Start on the customer’s domain
Section titled “Start on the customer’s domain”Switch on Use my own domain instead of a dev subdomain and enter the domains under Domains (first = primary). The site is then created live on those domains, with no dev address at all. Point their DNS at the server first. Until then, the site has no certificate.
What happens
Section titled “What happens”The wizard starts a site.create job and shows its log. In order:
- It creates the site’s folder, network and database.
- It starts the container with no route to it, so no visitor can reach the WordPress installer.
- It installs WordPress with your admin account, sets pretty permalinks, and removes Akismet and Hello Dolly.
- It installs the language pack and the plugins, then runs their recipes.
- It makes the site reachable and checks that it answers.
If a step fails, the job removes everything it created, and the slug is free again. A plugin that fails to install is a warning, and so is a recipe the vendor refuses. The site is created anyway. When the job is done, it shows the generated admin password once.
Limits
Section titled “Limits”- The slug cannot be changed later. A few names are reserved, such as
admin,api,www,newandbulk. - A site has at most ten domains, and a domain belongs to one site only.
- Search engines stay discouraged until you untick the setting in WordPress. Going live does not change it.
- If the cleanup after a failure fails too, the site stays as Error. Delete site on its Settings tab removes it.