{"id":3886,"date":"2020-07-16T13:51:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T13:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/docs\/cli\/enable-disable-wordpress-manager\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T12:10:19","slug":"enable-disable-wordpress-manager","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/docs\/cli\/enable-disable-wordpress-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable\/Disable\/Rename WordPress Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"overview\">Overview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have added a dedicated icon for WordPress Manager which will allow users to reach the WordPress installation page faster. However as per admin&#8217;s choice this icon can be enabled\/disabled. This guide explains how to achieve the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alert alert-info wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Note\u00a0<\/strong>: At the moment this is available in cPanel, DirectAdmin only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cpanel-wordpress-manager-1024x295.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cpanel-wordpress-manager-1024x295.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cpanel-wordpress-manager-300x86.png 300w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cpanel-wordpress-manager-768x221.png 768w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cpanel-wordpress-manager.png 1043w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enable WordPress Manager<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use the following command to <strong>enable the WordPress Manager icon<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted bash hljs\">php \/path\/to\/softaculous\/cli.php --add_wordpress_manager<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E.g. for cPanel&nbsp;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted bash hljs\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/3rdparty\/bin\/php \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/whostmgr\/docroot\/cgi\/softaculous\/cli.php --add_wordpress_manager<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E.g. for DirectAdmin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted bash hljs\">\/usr\/local\/directadmin\/plugins\/softaculous\/bin\/php \/usr\/local\/directadmin\/plugins\/softaculous\/cli.php --add_wordpress_manager<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This will enable the WordPress Manager in control panel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"parameters\">Parameters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the above command the first parameter should be <strong>&#8211;add_wordpress_manager<\/strong> as this parameter will initiate the WordPress Manager enable function.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disable WordPress Manager<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use the following command to <strong>disable the WordPress Manager icon<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted bash hljs\">php \/path\/to\/softaculous\/cli.php --remove_wordpress_manager<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E.g. for cPanel&nbsp;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted bash hljs\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/3rdparty\/bin\/php \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/whostmgr\/docroot\/cgi\/softaculous\/cli.php --remove_wordpress_manager<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E.g. for DirectAdmin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code bash hljs\"><code>\/usr\/local\/directadmin\/plugins\/softaculous\/bin\/php \/usr\/local\/directadmin\/plugins\/softaculous\/cli.php --remove_wordpress_manager<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This will disable the WordPress Manager in control panel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"parameters\">Parameters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the above command the first parameter should be <strong>&#8211;remove_wordpress_manager<\/strong> as this parameter will initiate the WordPress Manager disable function.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rebuild WordPress Manager<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rebuild functionality is useful when you have changed the Site Name to your custom name for Softaculous. By default Softaculous will update the icon with your custom name e.g. WordPress Manager by World&#8217;s Best Host. However if you update the universal.php file manually you can use the below command to update the name for the icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OR you can pass the desired name for WordPress Manager icon using the <strong>title<\/strong> parameter e.g. &#8211;title=&#8221;My Custom WordPress Manager&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use the following command to <strong>rebuild the WordPress Manager icon<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted bash hljs\">php \/path\/to\/softaculous\/cli.php --rebuild_wordpress_manager --title=\"My Custom WordPress Manager\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E.g. for cPanel&nbsp;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code bash hljs\"><code>\/usr\/local\/directadmin\/plugins\/softaculous\/bin\/php \/usr\/local\/directadmin\/plugins\/softaculous\/cli.php --rebuild_wordpress_manager --title=\"My Custom WordPress Manager\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E.g. for DirectAdmin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted bash hljs\">\/usr\/local\/directadmin\/plugins\/softaculous\/bin\/php \/usr\/local\/directadmin\/plugins\/softaculous\/cli.php --rebuild_wordpress_manager --title=\"My Custom WordPress Manager\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This will rebuild the WordPress Manager in control panel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"parameters\">Parameters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the above command the first parameter should be <strong>&#8211;rebuild_wordpress_manager<\/strong> as this parameter will initiate the WordPress Manager rebuild function.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The second parameter is option and can be used to set a desired name for your WordPress Manager icon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":1686,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","docs_category":[],"class_list":["post-3886","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6055,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3886\/revisions\/6055"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"docs_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs_category?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}