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    • Your First Site

    After syncing your servers, your WordPress sites should already appear in WPHammer. If a site was created through Forge, the sync pulls it in automatically. You can also create new WordPress sites directly from WPHammer.

    Sites from Forge sync

    When WPHammer syncs a server, it discovers all sites configured in Forge and imports them. For each site, WPHammer resolves:

    • The domain and directory structure
    • SSL status
    • The associated database (matched by name or resolved via WP-CLI)
    • PHP version and application type

    Sites appear on the Sites tab of the dashboard and under their parent server. No additional setup is needed for synced sites to be visible and manageable.

    Creating a new site

    To create a WordPress site from WPHammer:

    1. Navigate to the server where the site should live.
    2. Choose Create Site from the server actions.
    3. Provide the site domain, root directory, and database details.
    4. WPHammer submits a site creation request to Forge through its API, then tracks the provisioning through a deployment pipeline.

    The deployment pipeline handles each step — site provisioning, database creation, WordPress installation — as ordered deployment steps. You can follow progress in the deployments view.

    Site overview

    Once a site is in WPHammer, the site overview shows:

    • Domain and URL — the active domain with a direct link
    • Server — which server the site runs on
    • PHP version — the PHP version configured for the site
    • SSL status — whether HTTPS is enabled
    • Database — the database name and user
    • WordPress details — core version, and any available updates (after inventory collection)

    Configuring site features

    From the site detail view, you can enable the features that matter for ongoing care:

    Backups

    Configure scheduled database backups, incremental file backups, and time capsules. Set the frequency, retention count, and any file exclusions.

    Security scanning

    Run security scans to detect vulnerabilities, malware, and abuse. Findings are tracked by severity with a full lifecycle — new, regressed, resolved, or ignored.

    Uptime monitoring

    Enable uptime checks with configurable intervals. WPHammer tracks response times, SSL certificate expiry, and raises incidents when a site goes down.

    Canary monitoring

    Turn on visual regression detection. WPHammer captures baseline screenshots and flags visual changes between checks — useful for catching unintended changes after updates or deployments.

    WordPress inventory

    Enable inventory collection to track installed plugins, themes, and core versions. This data feeds the WordPress dashboard tab and powers bulk update workflows.

    Staging environments

    You can create a staging copy of any site for testing. Staging environments support media sync, HTTP basic auth, and a structured push-to-production workflow. See the staging documentation for details.

    Next steps

    With your first site configured, explore the dashboard to see how everything comes together across your servers and sites.

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