WordPress
The software that runs a very large share of the web.
What it is
WordPress is a content management system: you write posts and pages in a browser, and it renders a website. It powers everything from personal blogs to large publications, and its theme and plugin ecosystem is the biggest of any web platform.
Good for
- Blogs and personal sites
- Small business and portfolio sites
- Anything you want to hand to a non-technical person to edit
Getting in
- Open the link on your console page.
- Choose your admin username and password on the setup screen — you pick these yourself, they are not pre-made.
- Pick a theme, then write your first post.
Your own address, port and any credentials are on your server's console page, reached from your dashboard. They are specific to your server, so they are not repeated here.
Things that catch people out
Uploads are capped at 128 MB per file
Plenty for images, not enough for long video. Host video elsewhere and embed it.
Keep plugins few and updated
Almost every WordPress site that gets compromised is running an out-of-date plugin. Install what you need and no more.
Where your data lives
Site files and the database live in Docker volumes under /opt/wordpress.
Take a snapshot before anything risky — see Snapshots and backups.
Updating
Ubuntu patches itself, but the app does not. SSH in and run:
Take a snapshot first.