How to Create a New Project with InMotion Central

In this guide, we’ll show you how to create a new project with InMotion Central. A project is where you can manage a live or staged instance of a WordPress website. InMotion Central makes it easy to manage and develop multiple sites in separate projects.

You can build a site and do not have to pay for hosting until your clients are ready to go live. Save time and money by testing and building separate instances in staging environments without disturbing your live sites.

Some of the other benefits of creating a project with InMotion Central are the ability to perform free backups of your projects using the Total Upkeep plugin and create “Snaps” that include a group of pre-built plugins that you can quickly implement on any project site. You can also save time by moving a copy of existing sites to InMotion’s Managed WordPress platform in minutes and deploying updates right from InMotion Central without having to login to the WordPress Dashboard.

• Create a New WordPress Site Project
• Copy/Migrate a Site Into a New Project

Create a New WordPress Site Project 

1. Login to InMotion Central.
2. Click the +New Project button.
   
3. Enter a Project Name, select a Team or person to own the project then click the Next button.
   
4. Select New Site then click Next.
   
5. On the next screen you will see a message stating “Awesome! Install In Progress”. Click the My Dashboard button to return to the main InMotion Central page.
6. You will see a “Finished Configuring” message on the bottom right when your new project is ready. Click the Open WordPress button to access the Admin Dashboard for the site.
   

Copy/Migrate a Site Into a New Project

1. Login to InMotion Central.
2. Click the +New Project button.
   
3. Enter a Project Name, select a Team or person to own the project then click the Next button.
4. Select Copy an Existing Site then click Next.
5. Enter Your WordPress URL in the available field then click the Next button.
   
6. It will then locate your WordPress site and ask you to connect with a Username & Password or Connect Plugin. In this example, we are selecting the Username & Password option (the recommended method) and then clicking the Next button.
   
7. Enter your Username and Password, then click the Next button.
   
8. Your project will attempt to connect to the WordPress installation, then you will see a message stating “Successful InMotion Central Connection!” Click the Continue button.
   
   
   Important: Do Not cancel your old hosting plan yet. Your project was created and connected to your website and you can now manage it remotely but it has not been moved, copied, or migrated over to InMotion’s servers until you successfully Publish the site.

Congratulations, now you know how to create a project with InMotion Central! You can now begin building and managing multiple websites from a single location.