Installing WordPress on shared hosting
One-click install, recommended settings, and the plugins to skip.
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WordPress is the most common workload on Vintony shared infrastructure. Here's how to install it correctly the first time so you don't have to re-do the work later.
From the dashboard, click your shared plan and select Apps → WordPress → Install. The installer asks for your domain, an admin username, an admin email, and a site title. We auto-generate the database name, user, and password.
Two settings to change immediately. First, the site URL should be https:// (not http://); the installer defaults to whatever scheme the domain is currently serving. Second, enable object caching from the dashboard — it's free on Pro and above and roughly doubles page-render speed for any non-trivial site.
Plugins to skip on Vintony: any caching plugin (we cache at the LiteSpeed/CDN edge), any 'image optimisation' plugin (we run image optimisation at the edge), and any SSL-fix plugin (we handle TLS at the load balancer; you should never need to touch http→https rewriting in WordPress).
Plugins worth installing: Yoast or RankMath for SEO meta, WP Sentry for error monitoring (if you've enabled GlitchTip on the dashboard), and whatever your editorial workflow needs. Avoid the bloat plugins; less code in PHP = faster pages.