How to fully setup sites.

  • leonmoore0

    (@leonmoore0)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    I’m looking to start doing some freelance work with WordPress, I’m wondering once I’ve uploaded a localhost site to something like Bluehost how would I update the site, do I just go onto my admin, make changes, and then reupload to the host, can you set up something to do that automatically? How would I set it up so a client can easily update things like posts? Do I have to move it to a WordPress.com account in their name and set it up and walk them through the basics? Can they access theirsite/admin and edit there, if so how does that work if I have multisite account? I want to just make the sites and do some revamps every now and again, not be maintaining the site constantly. Could I get them to setup on a hosting service and have them only have access to there site, setup a sub account sort of thing so they can only access their site and not my admin account?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    8 years, 3 months ago

    how would I update the site

    You’d login to their site on their host and do what needs to be done. That’s exactly how the client would do it, too. It’s probably a good idea to hang onto your local dev site in case you need to test some things out before doing them on the live site.

    Thread Starter leonmoore0

    (@leonmoore0)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks, does Bluehost have a built in cms or would I have to download WordPress within bluehost or once I upload the site can the client and I use the WordPress dashboard somehow, does it automatically integrate it? Also, does that mean I wouldn’t be able to use multisite to update because they’d all be on different hosts, I’d have to go into each individual account and update, but I could just use local host multisite to have the offlines in one place or could I have all the clients sites on my personal account while also having their individual accounts, so they can only access their sites but I could access them all?

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by leonmoore0.
    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    8 years, 3 months ago

    Bluehost has a one click install. Once you get it set up, you can delete most of the plugins they install.

    I’m not sure why you’re talking about multisite.

    RossMitchell

    (@rossmitchell)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    You could use multisite to manage the websites of multiple clients, each under their own domain name. You would be the super-admin, clients would have editor level logins, and maybe also a separate administrator too, teaching people to manage their own content is routine, lots of tutorials on youtube, and use teamviewer.com for remote coaching sessions.

    However I do not manage my clients this way, instead I became a hosting reseller with a WHM managed hosting account, I resell hosting to my clients, I setup each with their own independent cPanel login (though they hardly ever use it). This gives my clients much more independence, I can create other than WordPress websites, individual IP address if necessary for SSL, manage their traffic and quotas etc. I can still manage all of them using my master WHM login.

    Thread Starter leonmoore0

    (@leonmoore0)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    That’s exactly what I was looking for, thanks Ross.

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