From a single WordPress.com account, you can manage all of your websites, your content, and your settings. This guide helps you find your way around.
View all the sites in your WordPress.com account from your Hosting Dashboard. The Hosting Dashboard brings your sites, domains, emails, plans, backups, and activity together in one place.
To open your Hosting Dashboard, click the WordPress W icon in the upper-left corner from anywhere in WordPress.com. You can also navigate directly to my.wordpress.com. From your Hosting Dashboard, you can:
- View all your websites, including self-hosted sites connected through the Jetpack plugin.
- View details about each site.
- Manage domains and emails for all your sites.
- Manage themes and plugins for all your sites.
- Create a new site with the “Add new site” button.
Click a site’s name in your Hosting Dashboard to open a single website’s Site Overview:
The Site Overview displays key information about that site, including:
- Visibility: Whether your site is public, coming soon, or private.
- Performance: Your site’s current performance score based on loading speed and responsiveness.
- Backup: The status and date of your most recent backup.
- Security scan: The date of your most recent scan for malware and vulnerabilities, or a prompt to scan your site for security threats.
- Plan: Your current WordPress.com plan.
- Storage: How much of your available storage space you’ve used for uploads like images, videos, and files.
- Bandwidth: The amount of data transferred between your site and its visitors. Every time someone views a page, loads an image, or downloads a file, it uses bandwidth.
What you can access here varies depending on your plan.
From the left sidebar of the Site Overview, you can manage each part of your site:
- Domains: View and manage the domains connected to your site.
- Backups: View and restore your site’s backups.
- Performance: Check your site’s speed and performance score.
- Monitoring: Track your site’s server responses.
- Logs: View your site’s server logs.
- Scan: Scan your site for malware and security threats.
- Deployments: Deploy code from a GitHub repository to your site.
- Settings: Configure your site’s general, server, and security settings.
To move from one site to another within your WordPress.com account, follow these steps:
- From anywhere in WordPress.com, click the WordPress W icon in the upper-left corner to open your Hosting Dashboard.
- Click the name of the site you want to manage.
- Use the left sidebar to open the tool you need, or click the “My Home” or “WP Admin” button (depending on your interface) in the top-right corner to open that site’s dashboard.
To find a specific site, use the search field at the top of your Hosting Dashboard. Or click the filter icon next to the search field to filter sites based on plan and visibility.
Choose what you see first when you log in to WordPress.com. You may wish to set your Hosting Dashboard as your default landing page if you manage multiple sites.
To set your default landing page, follow these steps:
- Hover over your profile icon in the top-right and select “My WordPress.com account”.
- Click Preferences.
- Scroll to Account defaults, then find the Landing page section.
- Choose your default landing page:
- “Open your primary site’s dashboard”: Opens your primary site’s dashboard, ready to edit.
- “See a list of all your sites”: Opens your Hosting Dashboard, where you can see and manage all your sites.
- “View posts from sites you follow”: Opens the Reader to show posts from sites you subscribe to.
- Click the Save button.
You can switch between a grid view or table view using the Layout icon (a grid or a table) in the top-right corner.
Click the “View options” icon (a gear/cog) to sort your sites, set the display density, and choose which properties you want to appear in your Sites and Domains lists.
Edit your site’s content, design, and core functionality through the site’s dashboard. When you visit WordPress.com and log in, you will be in your site’s dashboard by default (unless you have changed your default landing page.)
WordPress.com provides two different interface styles (views) to manage your WordPress site:
- Default style: Modern, clean interface, integrated into WordPress.com.
- WP Admin: Traditional WordPress interface, familiar to power users of WordPress.
Both interfaces provide access to the same features—the difference is only in how they look and are organized.
Learn how to choose and switch between dashboard styles in our admin interface style guide.
In your site’s dashboard, you can edit your site’s content through these primary menu items:
- Write posts: Use the Posts menu. Learn how to create a post.
- Create pages: Use the Pages menu. Learn how to create a page.
- Manage site media: Use the Media menu. Learn how to manage your site’s media.
You will use the Appearance menu to change themes, edit your site’s layout, and customize your site’s styles.
- Launch your website through the Settings menu.
- Manage your subscriptions and billing under the Upgrades menu.
- Add and manage domains under Upgrades → Domains.
Your profile contains account-wide settings that affect all your sites.
In your WordPress.com account, hover over your profile icon in the top-right and select the “My WordPress.com account” button to access your profile.
- Profile: Edit your display name, bio, and public information. Learn more about your WordPress.com profile.
- Account Settings: Manage email, password, security, and interface preferences. Learn more about account settings.
- Purchases: View billing history and manage payments for all of your sites. Learn more about managing purchases and billing.
- Email and password: Update your login credentials. Learn how to change your password.
- Security: Enable two-factor authentication for account protection. Learn how to secure your account with two-factor authentication.
- Notifications: Control which email updates you receive. Learn about notification settings.
