WordPress tools

These cards appear on the page of a WordPress application running on a server. Most of them need the application’s status to be ready.

Staging and cloning

A staging site is a private copy of your website on the same server. Use it to try out updates or design changes safely.

1. Under Staging & clone, click Create staging and confirm.
2. Make and test your changes on the staging site.
3. Copy your changes back with Push to production. greneIT takes a backup of the live site first and keeps your existing users.
4. To refresh the staging site with the latest live content, click Pull from production.

To make an independent copy of the site, use Clone website. Enter a Website name, choose a Target server and an Address (a temporary greneIT URL or a custom domain), then click Start clone.

Scheduled tasks (cron)

WordPress runs scheduled jobs such as publishing scheduled posts and sending emails. Under Cron, tick Enable WordPress cron, choose an Interval (5, 15 or 30 minutes, or hourly) and click Save cron.

Outbound email and Turnstile

Under Outbound email & Turnstile:

• Choose a mailbox and click Save mailbox, then Set transactional SMTP. WordPress then sends its emails (contact forms, password resets) through your greneIT mail. Your domain must have Cloudflare Email Sending enabled.
• Click Create & email keys to set up Cloudflare Turnstile, a privacy-friendly alternative to CAPTCHA that protects your forms from spam. The keys are emailed to you.

WordPress integrity

greneIT checks your WordPress core files against the official versions to spot tampering or malware.

• Nightly scan (04:30 UTC): switch on to scan every night.
• Run scan now: scan immediately.

Results show as Pass, Warning, Failed, Error or Not scanned yet. To be emailed about problems, turn on WordPress integrity in Notifications.