Logging into your WordPress Dashboard

Once you have completed the installation of WordPress you can login to your dashboard. The admin section of WordPress, the "WordPress Dashboard", is where you will begin building your WordPress site. Please take note that your login credentials are not the same as your cPanel username and password unless you set them up as the same. You will need some information to login to WordPress.

• WordPress Installation URL: if you installed WordPress on the root of your domain your URL to access WordPress would be: yourdomain.com/wp-admin
• WordPress Username: This is the username you set up when initially installing WordPress.
• WordPress Password: This is the password you set up when installing WordPress. If you emailed the installation details during the installation process it will be in that email as well.

Steps to log into WordPress

1. To access the WordPress dashboard you simply need to add /wp-adminto the end of the URL where you installed WordPress like the below example:

   your-domain.com/wp-admin

   Note! If you installed WordPress to the document root of the url it would be your-domain.com/wp-admin. If you installed WordPress on a folder called "blog" on your domain you would go to your-domain.com/blog/wp-admin

   When you visit the login page for WordPress you will see the login screen.
   

2. Type the username and password you used when you installed your WordPress.

   Note! Your WordPress login is a different login than your cPanel and your AMP. If you cannot remember your Username or Password, Please see our article on Resetting your WordPress Admin Password

   After you login to the dashboard successfully you will see the WordPress dashboard.
   

If you installed WordPress on a new domain or on a domain that is not yet pointed to your account with InMotion hosting, then you will not be able to use the dashboard until you point the domain to our servers or until the DNS changes take effect. You can set WordPress up to use your temp URL. The Temporary URL can be found in your AMP technical details.

Please note, that if you change WordPress to work using your temp URL, when you are ready to have the site go live, you will need to change it back so it will function using the domain name instead.

If for whatever reason you are unable to log into your WordPress Dashboard, you can contact our tech support to have the login fixed.