Use GHL Customer Care’s WordPress Hosting Setup Guide to create your site, import content, connect a domain with SSL, enable logs, manage users, and view analytics.
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This article explains how GHL Customer Care's WordPress Hosting Setup Guide helps you create a site, import content, connect your domain with SSL, enable security logs, manage users, and view reports.
Use this guided checklist to complete the essentials faster and with confidence. It is perfect for new accounts or anyone standardizing onboarding across locations.
The Setup Guide is a built-in checklist that appears after you subscribe to WordPress Hosting. It provides step-by-step tasks, clear CTAs, helpful tooltips, and a progress indicator so you always know what is done and what to do next.
Optional tasks can be skipped. Once all tasks are finished, the guide automatically hides itself to keep your dashboard clean.
✨ Key Benefits
Consistency: Helps teams adopt consistent workflows and achieve faster time-to-value.
Clarity: Track progress easily and reduce guesswork for users.
Faster Starts: Get publishing and measuring sooner.
Custom Experience: Build trust with a firm, guided experience.
Safe Migrations: Move an existing site smoothly and securely.
?️ Setup Guide Flow
The guide walks you through seven essential steps to get your site fully operational:
Step 1: Create Site
Whether you choose to start from a template, clone an existing setup, or do a blank install, this first decision sets your foundation and structure.
Step 1: Create Site (image 1 of 7)What this shows Whether you choose to start from a template, clone an existing setup, or do a blank install, this first decision sets your foundation and structure.What this showsIllustrates the "Step 1: Create Site" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting".This screenshot appears in the "Step 1: Create Site" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting". The text alongside this image reads: Whether you choose to start from a template, clone an existing setup, or do a blank install, this first decision sets your foundation and structure. Immediately after, the guide continues: If you already have a WordPress site, you can import your existing content, media, and plugins.Image 1 of 7What to chooseWhether you choose to start from a template, clone an existing setup, or do a blank install, this first decision sets your foundation and structure.Next stepIf you already have a WordPress site, you can import your existing content, media, and plugins.
Step 2: Import Content (Site Migration)
If you already have a WordPress site, you can import your existing content, media, and plugins.
Step 2: Import Content (Site Migration) (image 2 of 7)What this shows If you already have a WordPress site, you can import your existing content, media, and plugins.What this showsIllustrates the "Step 2: Import Content (Site Migration)" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting".This screenshot appears in the "Step 2: Import Content (Site Migration)" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting". The text alongside this image reads: If you already have a WordPress site, you can import your existing content, media, and plugins. Immediately after, the guide continues: Log in to your WordPress backend directly from the GHL Customer Care dashboard. This streamlines your entry point and speeds up management without needing separate credentials.Image 2 of 7What this coversIf you already have a WordPress site, you can import your existing content, media, and plugins.Next stepLog in to your WordPress backend directly from the GHL Customer Care dashboard. This streamlines your entry point and speeds up management without needing separate credentials.
Step 3: One-Click WP Admin Access
Log in to your WordPress backend directly from the GHL Customer Care dashboard. This streamlines your entry point and speeds up management without needing separate credentials.
Step 3: One-Click WP Admin Access (image 3 of 7)What this shows Log in to your WordPress backend directly from the GHL Customer Care dashboard.What this showsIllustrates the "Step 3: One-Click WP Admin Access" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting".This screenshot appears in the "Step 3: One-Click WP Admin Access" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting". The text alongside this image reads: Log in to your WordPress backend directly from the GHL Customer Care dashboard. This streamlines your entry point and speeds up management without needing separate credentials. Immediately after, the guide continues: Establish your primary domain. This step ensures enterprise-grade encryption and security for your visitors via Cloudflare.Image 3 of 7What this coversLog in to your WordPress backend directly from the GHL Customer Care dashboard. This streamlines your entry point and speeds up management without needing separate credentials.Next stepEstablish your primary domain. This step ensures enterprise-grade encryption and security for your visitors via Cloudflare.
Step 4: Connect Domain & SSL
Establish your primary domain. This step ensures enterprise-grade encryption and security for your visitors via Cloudflare.
Step 4: Connect Domain & SSL (image 4 of 7)What this shows Establish your primary domain.What this showsIllustrates the "Step 4: Connect Domain & SSL" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting".This screenshot appears in the "Step 4: Connect Domain & SSL" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting". The text alongside this image reads: Establish your primary domain. This step ensures enterprise-grade encryption and security for your visitors via Cloudflare. Immediately after, the guide continues: Turn on and view logs to get a reliable audit of your site's history of changes. This helps you troubleshoot issues early and keep your site safe.Image 4 of 7What this coversEstablish your primary domain. This step ensures enterprise-grade encryption and security for your visitors via Cloudflare.Next stepTurn on and view logs to get a reliable audit of your site's history of changes. This helps you troubleshoot issues early and keep your site safe.
Step 5: Enable Security Logs
Turn on and view logs to get a reliable audit of your site's history of changes. This helps you troubleshoot issues early and keep your site safe.
Step 5: Enable Security Logs (image 5 of 7)What this shows Turn on and view logs to get a reliable audit of your site's history of changes.What this showsIllustrates the "Step 5: Enable Security Logs" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting".This screenshot appears in the "Step 5: Enable Security Logs" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting". The text alongside this image reads: Turn on and view logs to get a reliable audit of your site's history of changes. This helps you troubleshoot issues early and keep your site safe. Immediately after, the guide continues: Maintain security based on roles and responsibilities. Reserve full admin access only for those who truly need full control over the site.Image 5 of 7What this coversTurn on and view logs to get a reliable audit of your site's history of changes. This helps you troubleshoot issues early and keep your site safe.Next stepMaintain security based on roles and responsibilities. Reserve full admin access only for those who truly need full control over the site.
Step 6: Manage User Permissions
Maintain security based on roles and responsibilities. Reserve full admin access only for those who truly need full control over the site.
Step 6: Manage User Permissions (image 6 of 7)What this shows Maintain security based on roles and responsibilities.What this showsIllustrates the "Step 6: Manage User Permissions" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting".This screenshot appears in the "Step 6: Manage User Permissions" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting". The text alongside this image reads: Maintain security based on roles and responsibilities. Reserve full admin access only for those who truly need full control over the site. Immediately after, the guide continues: Once you launch, view traffic and engagement analytics by enabling the Uptime Monitoring under Analytics > Visitors Report. This surfaces priority data so you can see clear paths to optimizing your site.Image 6 of 7What this coversMaintain security based on roles and responsibilities. Reserve full admin access only for those who truly need full control over the site.Next stepOnce you launch, view traffic and engagement analytics by enabling the Uptime Monitoring under Analytics > Visitors Report. This surfaces priority data so you can see clear paths to optimizing your site.
Step 7: View Analytics
Once you launch, view traffic and engagement analytics by enabling the Uptime Monitoring under Analytics > Visitors Report. This surfaces priority data so you can see clear paths to optimizing your site.
Step 7: View Analytics (image 7 of 7)What this shows Once you launch, view traffic and engagement analytics by enabling the Uptime Monitoring under Analytics > Visitors Report.What this showsIllustrates the "Step 7: View Analytics" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting".This screenshot appears in the "Step 7: View Analytics" section of "Setup Guide for WordPress Hosting". The text alongside this image reads: Once you launch, view traffic and engagement analytics by enabling the Uptime Monitoring under Analytics > Visitors Report. This surfaces priority data so you can see clear paths to optimizing your site. The navigation path used here is Analytics > Visitors Report. Immediately after, the guide continues: Go to your newly provisioned WordPress site dashboard. The guide will automatically surface priority tasks in the proper order. Click Continue on the active prompt to proceed through the remaining steps until completion.Path: Analytics > Visitors ReportImage 7 of 7What this coversOnce you launch, view traffic and engagement analytics by enabling the Uptime Monitoring under Analytics > Visitors Report. This surfaces priority data so you can see clear paths to optimizing your site.Next stepGo to your newly provisioned WordPress site dashboard. The guide will automatically surface priority tasks in the proper order. Click Continue on the active prompt to proceed through the remaining steps until completion.
?️ How To Use the Setup Guide
Go to your newly provisioned WordPress site dashboard.
The guide will automatically surface priority tasks in the proper order.
Click Continue on the active prompt to proceed through the remaining steps until completion.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Who can see the setup guide?
A: Agency admins and authorized users with WordPress management permissions can view and interact with the guide.
Q: Can I bring the setup guide back once it's finished or skipped?
A: Yes! You can easily toggle or re-open the guide from your dashboard if you need to review the steps again.
Q: What should I do during DNS propagation?
A: DNS changes can take a few hours to propagate globally. Simply wait for the propagation to complete before attempting to verify your SSL and domain connection.
Q: Does the migration process use my plan's resources (storage, bandwidth, etc.)?
A: Yes, the imported content will count toward your plan's allocated storage limits. However, unmetered bandwidth ensures your site stays fast and available once live.
Frequently asked questions
? What is the Setup Guide?
The Setup Guide is a built-in checklist that appears after you subscribe to WordPress Hosting. It provides step-by-step tasks, clear CTAs, helpful tooltips, and a progress indicator so you always know what is done and what to do next. Optional tasks can be skipped. Once all tasks are finished, the guide automatically hides itself to keep your dashboard clean.
