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Dec 8, 2016 - cPanel is the most ongoing Web control in the whole world. Its servers create a domain every 6 seconds and also a hosting account is created.
WordPress can help you a lot with your blog, but when it comes to your server, you will need a different kind of help. And that’s where cPanel comes in to assist you. CPanel is a Linux-based control panel designed specifically for web hosting management.
This powerful panel consists of numerous tools which will help you manage your website from a lot of different aspects. It has a user-friendly graphical interface which is quite intuitive and even first-time users won’t have trouble performing specific tasks via cPanel. You can on its Wikipedia pages. Since this control panel has become so popular that practically every hosting company uses it, sooner or later you will need to learn how to do some basic thing with it. Instead of going through each and every detail about this enormous panel, we’ll focus on.
Table of Contents. Introduction To log in to your account, you will have to enter username and password. This will be different from your WordPress credentials; account details are usually emailed to you right after you pay for your hosting. And after you log in, the fun can begin. To log in to cPanel, visit or The first thing you will notice is the homepage which is a home to all the accessible tools. On the left side, you will notice Stats widget where you can find all the basic details about your server. Here, you will be able to see your domain and the location of the home directory, information about the last login, info about your disk usage, mail account and several other statistics which are always good to know.
On the right side, you will find all the tools grouped into several categories. These categories can be dragged and dropped in order to rearrange them, and you can find some really useful things for your WordPress site. So, let’s break down the cPanel into those categories. Files All the tools you will need when working with files will be found in this group. For starters, here you’ll be able to control FTP accounts which you may need for manual WordPress installation.
You can easily add new accounts, change passwords, control quotas and do practically everything FTP-wise. When you work on a bigger project, sometimes you will need to monitor FTP Connections and see who is connected to which FTP account. If you follow FirstSiteGuide, you know that we always emphasize how important is to have a secure website.
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You will want to scan your website on a regular basis and do everything you can to protect your WP site through themes and plugins, but sometimes you will have to analyze FTP access to your site. While you can hide and protect WordPress directories by modifying.htaccess file or installing plugins like, you can use cPanel to lock any folder you want. Simply open Directory Privacy folder, choose any folder and put a password to it. Cool, isn’t it? In this category, you will also find a simple backup tool which can sometimes be a lifesaver. Just through several clicks, you’ll be able to download the entire content of your server.
This means that you can easily download the entire WordPress folder and transfer it to another hosting company or install it locally for further development. If you want to only backup specific files and databases, you will be able to select them instead of downloading the entire site. Of course, the backup tool will also let you restore a backup. When it comes to images, you probably already know that WordPress can be packed with numerous gallery plugins and image tools to help you manage small pictures or the entire photo collections. You can also install some of the best premium themes dedicated to photography, regenerate additional image sizes or change the way WordPress compresses your JPEG images, but sometimes it is just enough to use Images cPanel tool which will help you create thumbnails from all images in a selected folder, scale them or even convert them to a different format.