Last modified: March 25, 2022
Overview
The WordPress Toolkit plugin allows you to easily install, configure, and manage WordPress®.
Install WordPress Toolkit
You can install the WordPress Toolkit plugin with the following methods:
You may confirm WordPress Toolkit installation by accessing WHM’s WordPress Toolkit interface (WHM >> Home >> Plugins >> WordPress Toolkit). If enabled, cPanel users can also access this plugin in cPanel’s WordPress Toolkit interface (cPanel >> Home >> Domains >> WordPress Toolkit).
When you install the WordPress Toolkit, the system automatically installs the PHP-FPM Service for cPanel Daemons. The system also enables the PHP-FPM Service for cPanel Daemons when you update or remove WordPress Toolkit from the server.
WHM Marketplace
To install the WordPress Toolkit plugin in the WHM Marketplace interface (WHM >> Home >> Server Configuration >> WHM Marketplace), perform the following steps as the root
user:
- Navigate to the WHM Marketplace interface (WHM >> Home >> Server Configuration >> WHM Marketplace).
- Locate the WordPress Toolkit listing under Add Extensions and click Install.
Manual installation
To install the WordPress Toolkit plugin on the command line, run the following command as the root
user:
sh <(curl https://wp-toolkit.plesk.com/cPanel/installer.sh || wget -O - https://wp-toolkit.plesk.com/cPanel/installer.sh)
WHM configuration
You must fulfill these requirements to use the WordPress Toolkit plugin:
WordPress only supports MySQL® version 5.7 and later. To update your server’s version of MySQL to 5.7 and later, use WHM’s MySQL/MariaDB Upgrade interface (WHM >> Home >> SQL Services >> MySQL/MariaDB Upgrade).
Enable the PHP-FPM Service for cPanel Daemons, which must remain enabled to use the WordPress Toolkit.
To enable any required WordPress PHP extensions, use the PHP Extensions section of WHM’s EasyApache 4 interface (WHM >> Home >> Software >> EasyApache 4). For a list of these PHP extensions, read WordPress’ Server Environment documentation. To update your server’s PHP version, use WHM’s EasyApache interface (WHM >> Home >> Software >> EasyApache 4).
The WordPress Toolkit plugin requires a PHP
memory_limit
value of 128 MB or higher. You can set this limit in WHM’s MultiPHP INI Editor interface (WHM >> Home >> Software >> MultiPHP INI Editor).In the Feature Manager, enable the following features:
- WordPress Toolkit
- MySQL
- Subdomains
- MIME Types
- Cronjobs
- Directory Privacy
- Password & Security
- File Manager
- Redirects
For information about software versions WordPress requires to run properly, read WordPress’ Requirements documentation.
Enable Deluxe features
WordPress Toolkit is available in a standard version and a Deluxe version. To use WordPress Toolkit Deluxe features, enable both the WordPress Toolkit and WordPress Toolkit Deluxe features in the Feature Manager.
The following table shows the differences between the WordPress Toolkit and WordPress Toolkit Deluxe version features:
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Customizable Installation | ![]() |
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Manage Existing Installations | ![]() |
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Website Dashboard | ![]() |
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1-Click Login | ![]() |
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Change Admin Password | ![]() |
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Change DB Password | ![]() |
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Open DB in phpMyAdmin | ![]() |
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Backups | ![]() |
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Manual Updates | ![]() |
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Manage Plugins and Themes | ![]() |
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Upload Plugins and Themes | ![]() |
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Logs | ![]() |
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WordPress Integrity Check | ![]() |
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Plugin and Theme Sets | ![]() |
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Automatic Updates (Single Site) | ![]() |
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Maintenance Mode | ![]() |
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Debug Management | ![]() |
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Password Protection | ![]() |
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Search Engine Indexing Management | ![]() |
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Staging and Cloning | ![]() |
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1-Click Hardening | ![]() |
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Automatic Hardening | ![]() |
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Multiple Hardening | ![]() |
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Security Rollback | ![]() |
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Mass Site Management | ![]() |
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Smart Updates | ![]() |
Updates to WordPress Toolkit
Updates to the WordPress Toolkit run nightly.
To check the system’s auto-update status, run the following command as the root
user:
systemctl status wp-toolkit-scheduled-tasks
To force an auto-update run, run the following command as the root
user:
su wp-toolkit --shell=/bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/sw-engine -d auto_prepend_file=/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/wp-toolkit/scripts/scheduled-task-prepend-file.php /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/wp-toolkit/plib/scripts/instances-auto-update.php'
Troubleshoot WordPress Toolkit
The log files for the WordPress Toolkit reside in the /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/wp-toolkit/var/logs/
directory.
To troubleshoot the WordPress Toolkit, run the following command, where filename
represents the log file’s name:
grep -A1 ERROR /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/wp-toolkit/var/logs/filename.log
You can also enable enhanced logging to debug and troubleshoot the WordPress Toolkit.
We strongly recommend that you only enable enhanced logging when you need to troubleshoot the WordPress Toolkit. Enhanced logging may slow down WordPress Toolkit’s performance significantly.
To enable enhanced logging, add the following line to the /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/wp-toolkit/var/etc/config.ini
file:
logCommandsAndFileOperations = true
Uninstall WordPress Toolkit
To uninstall the WordPress Toolkit plugin on the command line, run the following command as the root
user:
rpm -e wp-toolkit-cpanel