WordPress Toolkit: Preinstalling WordPress on Customers' Domains

Note: The WordPress Toolkit extension is free with our Tera plans, and the Web Pro and the Web Host Plesk editions on a dedicated server or could VM.  It is available for a fee for the Web Admin edition.

Preinstalling WordPress on Customers' Domains

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With Plesk WordPress Toolkit, you can have WordPress preinstalled on newly created domains. You can have predefined lists of plugins and themes installed on those domains. In addition, you can give your customers the ability to enable Smart Updates.

For every hosting plan, you can choose among the following options:

• Do not preinstall WordPress.
• Preinstall WordPress only.
• Preinstall WordPress with a predefined set of plugins and themes.
• Preinstall WordPress with or without a predefined set of plugins and themes and give ability to enable Smart Updates.

If you choose any of the last three options, WordPress will be automatically installed on the first domain of every subscription based on the hosting plan (main domain).

To preinstall WordPress on newly created domains:

1. Go to Service Plans.
2. On the “Hosting Plans” tab, either click Add a Plan to create a new plan, or click the name of an existing plan to edit it.
3. If you have installed the Smart Updates license, customers can also enable Smart Update. You can specify the exact number of customers’ instances that can use Smart Update. To do so, clear the “Unlimited” checkbox next to “WordPress sites with Smart Update” and specify the desired limit. Regardless of the specified number, customers cannot use Smart Update on more WordPress instances than your Smart Updates license allows.
4. Go to the “Additional Services” tab.
5. Choose whether to preinstall WordPress only or WordPress with a predefined set of plugins and themes:
   • To install WordPress only, select “Install WordPress” under “WordPress Toolkit”.
   • To install WordPress with a predefined set of plugins and themes, select “Install WordPress with the ... set” under “WordPress Toolkit”.
6. Click OK (or Update & Sync if editing an existing plan).

Now every time you create a new subscription based on this hosting plan, WordPress will be installed automatically on that subscription's main domain. Existing subscriptions based on this hosting plan will not be affected.

Managing Sets

A set is a predefined list of WordPress plugins and themes. When you configure a hosting plan to enable the preinstallation of WordPress, you can also choose to add a single set. If you do, all plugins and themes included in the set are installed together with WordPress. WordPress Toolkit comes with two preconfigured sets, and you can always create more.

By default, every set you create becomes available to customers. Customers can see which plugins and themes are included in a set, and they can select a set to install together with WordPress when performing a custom installation. If you do not want customers to install sets on their WordPress instances, go to WordPress > the "Global Settings" tab, and clear the “Allow customers to use sets when they install WordPress” checkbox.

To create a set:

1. Go to WordPress, go to the “Sets” tab, and then click Create Set.
2. Give your set a name and click Create.
3. Click Add Plugins, and then click +Add Plugin. Search for the desired plugin, select it from the list, and then click Add. When you have added all desired plugins, click Close.
4. Repeat the previous step for themes.

Now you can select the set as a preinstallation option in the hosting plan.

To add plugins and themes to a set:

1. Go to WordPress, and then go to the “Sets” tab.
2. Click Add Plugins for the set you want to modify, and then click +Add Plugin. Search for the desired plugin, select it from the list, and then click Add. When you have added all desired plugins, click Close.
3. Repeat the previous step for themes.

Adding plugins and themes to a set does not affect existing subscriptions to which this set has been applied.

To remove the selected plugins and themes from a set:

1. Go to WordPress, and then go to the “Sets” tab.
2. Click the number displayed under the “Plugins” or “Themes” columns (for example, 2 total) to show the list of plugins or themes currently included in the set.
3. Click the icon next to the names of the plugins or themes you want to remove.

   

To remove all plugins and themes from a set:

1. Go to WordPress, and then go to the “Sets” tab.
2. Click the row corresponding to the set you want to modify, click either Remove All Plugins or Remove All Themes, and then click Yes.

   

Removing plugins and themes from a set does not affect existing subscriptions to which this set has been applied.

To rename a set:

1. Go to WordPress, and then go to the “Sets” tab.
2. Click the name of the set you want to rename, type a new name, and then click OK.

   

To remove a set:

1. Go to WordPress, and then go to the “Sets” tab.
2. Click the row corresponding to the set you want to remove, click Remove Set, and then click Yes.

   

Removing a set does not affect existing subscriptions to which this set has been applied. For all hosting plans that used the removed set, WordPress preinstall settings are reset (on the “Additional Services” tab, “WordPress Toolkit” is set to "None").