Web Hosting (cPanel) Guided Tour Part 4: Recap and what to do next
Our guided tour is complete! Along the way, you learned about:
- Your Web Hosting (cPanel) Dashboard. It's where you perform account-related tasks like adding more domains, viewing your server information, or changing your account passwords.
- Your WordPress Dashboard. It's where you build your website—adding pages, posts and media, changing themes, and more.
- Your cPanel Admin home page. It's where you can fine-tune advanced website settings like PHP settings and options or managing site security.
What's next?
Here's a list of important tasks to do for a great start:
- Install an SSL certificate: Planning an online store? Then you've got to have a secure website. Here's our path for requesting and installing an SSL certificate.
- Set up website backups: Backing up your site is a great way to protect your content and data if there's a real problem. You can set up backups yourself in cPanel, or let us handle that for you with our Website Backup service.
- Start building your site with WordPress: Check out our list of the basics you need to start building your new WordPress website.
- Move an existing website from another host to GoDaddy: You can move your existing websites automatically to Web Hosting (cPanel) if they were built with a CMS (for example, WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla).
- Find Help articles when you need them: Here's the home page for Web Hosting (cPanel) help articles.
Thanks for taking the tour!
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Learn more about your account
- Here's how to get to your account Dashboard.
- Visit our list of the most-visited Help articles for Web Hosting (cPanel).
Learn more about WordPress
- Visit the home page for our WordPress Help articles.
- Here's our list of things to start with as you build your WordPress website.
- Haven't installed WordPress yet? Here's how.
- For more info see WordPress 101, our How-To video series on all things WordPress.
Learn more about cPanel
- The folks at cPanel have their own YouTube channel including training videos.
- You can visit the cPanel documentation pages for in-depth information on how to use features.