Managed WordPress hosting

Managed WordPress hosting is planned for HLB. It would let you create and run WordPress sites from the HLB dashboard, with a setup checklist that would guide you through each step.

When creating a site, you would start from a blank install, a clone of an existing site or a template. You would then pick a server location such as Ashburn, Phoenix, Dallas, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Sydney or Singapore. The location would be fixed at site creation. One click would open the WordPress admin directly from HLB.

To move an existing site, HLB would first generate a migrator link for you. You would then install the migrator plugin on the existing site, log in with your hosting credentials, choose the destination site and start the migration, which replaces the destination's content. You could also upload a .wpress export of up to 2GB.

Day-to-day tools would include:

• A staging copy for testing plugins, themes and content, with a Live and Staging switch and a Publish button that would push all staging changes live.
• Automatic update settings for WordPress core would have off, latest or minor version options, plus toggles for each plugin and theme.
• SSH access with your own SSH key, so you could run WP-CLI commands and manage files from the terminal.

An AI page builder would create landing pages from a page name, slug, business name, niche, goal, tone and a plain-language description. New pages would start as drafts, so you could edit text, change tone, replace images, switch color palettes and preview before publishing, or continue editing in Elementor. Each site would include 12 AI page generation credits per month.