Content Management Systems (CMS)

A Content Management System (CMS) is a powerful platform that allows you to build, manage, and publish content on your website without needing to write code. This is the engine behind popular applications like WordPress, Magento, Drupal, and Joomla. Our guides in this section will empower you to take full control of your site. You’ll find step-by-step instructions for installing your CMS (either manually or with an installer like Softaculous), managing your day-to-day operations, and performing advanced tasks like cloning a WordPress site. We also cover best practices for optimizing performance, hardening your site’s security, and troubleshooting common issues.

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Explore our specialized guides for managing popular CMS platforms. If you are using one of our fully managed servers, your control panel (Interworx, WHM / cPanel, Plesk) provides tools to install and manage various CMS applications. Using one of our self-managed services? We have manual installation guides, as well.

How to Clone a Drupal Site to Another Domain

Find out how to clone your Drupal site to another domain for testing, staging, or other web development purposes.
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How to configure Magento to use your SSL certificate

Learn how to configure your Magento store to use a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate, which allows your site to exchange encrypted information with web users.
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How to configure multiple Magento storefronts

How to configure multiple storefronts for a single Magento 1 website.
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How to create Magento 2 dev sites

How Nexcess clients on physical (non-cloud) clients can create Magento 2 development (dev) sites.
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How to customize Magento 2 email templates

You can customize Magento 2 email templates for your shop’s transactional emails using HTML/CSS files, XML themes, store email addresses — along with directives and predefined/custom variables.
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How to Delete Post Revisions using WP-CLI

There may be times when you need to clean up post revisions created on your site. This is possible, using the commands already available in WP-CLI.
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How to harden your WordPress site

Hardening is securing your WordPress site by reducing vulnerabilities through best practices, updates, and protective settings.
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How to improve the security of your Magento store

Various methods of hardening your Magento store’s security, though many of these apply to any content management system (CMS).
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