Getting started with DashboardWP

DashboardWP is a single dashboard for all of your WordPress sites. Instead of logging into each wp-admin one by one, you connect every site once and then manage updates, backups, security, uptime and more from one place. This guide gets you from a fresh account to a dashboard you know your way around.

Create your account

Go to app.dashboardwp.com/register and sign up with your email address and a password. We send a verification link to your inbox; click it and your account is active. If the email does not arrive within a few minutes, check the spam folder or use the Resend verification option on the login page.

Prefer fewer passwords? Use the Sign up with Google button instead. Your Google account vouches for your email address, so there is no verification step and no password to remember.

Signing in

Log in with your email and password, or with Google. If you later turn on two-factor authentication, the login gains a second step where you enter a code from your authenticator app or email. You can mark a browser as trusted for 14 days so you are not asked every time. Two-factor setup is covered in the Your account and security guide.

A quick tour

After signing in you land on the dashboard. The layout has three fixed parts:

• The icon rail on the far left takes you to the main areas: Dashboard, Websites, Repositories, Team and Billing.
• The top bar holds the search, a sync button that refreshes data from all of your sites at once, the notification bell where running and finished operations appear, and your user menu.
• The content area shows the page you are on.

Once you open a specific site, a site sidebar appears with everything you can do on that site: Dashboard, Plugins, Themes, Users, Updates, Backups, Security, Uptime, Activity and Settings. The site switcher at the top of that sidebar jumps between sites without going back to the overview.

Light and dark mode

The theme switch sits at the bottom of the icon rail (and in the top bar on smaller screens). The dashboard follows your operating system’s setting until you pick a mode yourself; your choice is remembered on that browser.

Your time zone

The dashboard detects your browser’s time zone automatically and uses it for anything scheduled, such as “back up daily at 03:00”. Schedules run in your local time, not the server’s and not each WordPress site’s. You can change the time zone anytime under Settings.

Where to go next

The natural next step is connecting your first site: read Add your first website. It takes a few minutes and everything else in this guide builds on it.