# Manage a WordPress site

> Use AppLaunch controls to open, start, stop, restart, rename, and safely remove a WordPress site.

Open **Dashboard → Services → your WordPress service → WordPress**, then select the site.

## Understand the site tabs

- **Overview** shows the domain, aliases, redirects, WordPress version, document root, and runtime state.
- **Files** opens the browser file manager.
- **Database** shows the built-in database, connection details, phpMyAdmin, and WP Admin access.
- **Access** shows SSH and SFTP credentials.
- **Backups** creates, downloads, restores, and deletes snapshots.
- **Logs** shows runtime output.

## Start, stop, or restart

Use **Start** when the site is stopped, **Stop** for planned maintenance, and **Restart** after a runtime change or when directed by an error. A restart does not repair a broken plugin, invalid PHP file, or incorrect database setting; inspect **Logs** if the problem returns.

Do not interrupt a site while it is provisioning, restarting, restoring, or applying another operation.

## Open the public site or WP Admin

Use the external-link action beside the domain to open the public site. Open **Database → WordPress Access → Open WP Admin** for the administrator area.

## Change domains

Add aliases and redirects from **Overview** only after the domain is linked and its DNS record is ready. Confirm the new hostname works over HTTPS before making it primary. WordPress URLs stored in content or configuration may need a proper search-and-replace or WordPress URL update; AppLaunch does not rewrite every hard-coded URL automatically.

## Delete a site

Deletion permanently removes the site and its associated runtime data. Before selecting **Delete Site**:

1. Create and download a completed backup.
2. Export any content you need from WordPress.
3. Confirm no domain, webhook, or email flow still depends on the site.
4. Type or accept the confirmation only when the correct site is selected.

For recovery and diagnostics, see [WordPress backups and logs](/wordpress/backups-and-logs/) and [Troubleshoot WordPress](/wordpress/troubleshooting/).