The Setup dashboard
Go to Wigmorean Cloud → Setup. The dashboard shows every site on your account — name, domain, tier, status, last backup, WordPress version, PHP version. Click any site to drill into its management panel.
Creating a site
- Click New Site
- Give it a name
- Pick a domain — register a new one, transfer in, or point an external one
- Pick a plan (Starter, Professional, Business, Enterprise) and a data center region
- Select a starter template, or choose "Blank WordPress"
- Click Deploy
Provisioning takes about 90 seconds. When it's done, you'll see the admin URL and admin credentials — email-delivered too.
One-click magic
Every site gets these pre-configured:
- SSL certificate issued and auto-renewing
- Full Wigmorean Suite installed (22 modules available; you pick which to activate)
- Daily backups enabled with 30-day retention
- Staging environment (one-click clone of production)
- Hummingbird caching + Smush image optimization running
- Defender security hardening applied
- Branda white-label: WordPress admin rebranded to match your site
Maintenance mode
When you need to work on a site without visitors seeing a broken state, flip Maintenance Mode from the site's management panel. The public site returns a friendly "Back soon" page; admins can still log in and work normally.
Backups and restores
Backups run nightly. Each backup is a snapshot of files + database. From the panel:
- Click any backup to download a zip (for offsite archival)
- Click Restore to roll the live site back to that point
- Click Clone to staging to use a backup as the base for a staging environment
Restores take 2–5 minutes depending on site size. Maintenance mode auto-engages during the restore.
Staging environments
Every site has a staging slot. Click Create staging to spin up a full copy of production on a staging-*.wigmorean.cloud subdomain. Test plugin updates, theme changes, content drafts. When you're happy, click Push to production and the changes ship live.