When you install WordPress on your Hostinger hosting plan, several plugins are automatically added to your WordPress admin panel under the Hostinger menu: Hostinger Tools, Hostinger Easy Onboarding, Hostinger Ecommerce, Hostinger Reach, AI Content Creator, and AI Website Builder. Each plugin serves a different purpose — this article explains what they do and how to use them.
Hostinger Tools
Hostinger Tools is an all-in-one plugin designed to help you manage essential settings for your WordPress site directly from the WordPress admin panel.
The plugin is installed automatically on all new WordPress instances. Once the plugin is installed, go to Hostinger → Tools in your WordPress admin panel.
Features
Basic Info
- Displays your current WordPress version and alerts you when an update is available.
- Shows your current PHP version and alerts you when an update is available.
LLM Optimization
- Enable LLM Optimization to make your site easier for AI tools to explore and interact with.
- Create an LLMs.txt file so AI can explore, understand, and interact with your WordPress site.
- Enable Web2Agent to track content updates on your site and keep the AI discovery service up to date. Use Copy agent URL to share the agent URL where needed.
Maintenance Mode
- Enable or disable maintenance mode for your site while you make changes.
- Set a bypass URL so selected users can still access the site during maintenance.
Security
- Enable or disable XML-RPC requests to improve your site’s security.
Redirects
- Force all URLs to use HTTPS for secure browsing.
- Force all URLs to use WWW for consistent site access.
Check more about the features of this plugin in this guide: How to use the Hostinger Tools plugin for WordPress maintenance
Hostinger Easy Onboarding
Hostinger Easy Onboarding is a beginner-friendly plugin that guides you through the first steps of building your WordPress website. It is available exclusively to Hostinger customers.
Once the plugin is installed, the onboarding panel appears automatically in your WordPress admin panel. You can also access it from the Hostinger menu.
This helpful tool will walk you through the basic actions to create your website:
- Create site with AI
- Set up your online store
- Connected a domain
- Claim a free business email
- Enhance your website with plugins
- Get found on Google
- Make your site discoverable by AI
- Turn site visitors into subscribers
If you wish to skip a step for now, scroll down and click on your desired step to expand it.
Let’s go over each one in detail:
Create site with AI
Use AI to build your website in minutes. Answer a few questions, and Hostinger generates a site tailored to your needs. Select Create again to regenerate your site with new answers.
Set up your online store
Add your store details and your first product or service, then select Set up payment method to configure how you’ll get paid. Select Manage shipping to configure shipping options for your store. This step connects to the Hostinger Ecommerce plugin.
Connected a domain
Connect a domain to make your website easy to access and remember. If you don’t have one yet, register a new domain in just a few clicks.
Claim a free business email
Select Claim now to set up a professional email for your domain and build trust with your customers. Select Not needed to skip this step.
Enhance your website with plugins
Select Install plugins to add recommended plugins with powerful features to your WordPress site. Select Not needed to skip this step.
Get found on Google
Select Set up Google Site Kit to help your website appear when visitors search for your business on Google.
Make your site discoverable by AI
This step lets AI explore, understand, and interact with your site. Content updates are tracked automatically, so AI tools stay in sync with your site’s latest version. This step corresponds to the LLM Optimization feature in the Hostinger Tools plugin.
Turn site visitors into subscribers
Select Connect to Reach to collect emails from forms on your site and start sending AI-powered, on-brand email campaigns with Hostinger Reach. Select Not needed to skip this step.
Hostinger Ecommerce
Hostinger Ecommerce connects your WordPress site to the Hostinger Ecommerce platform, letting you sell products without installing WooCommerce. WordPress handles your content and design, while Hostinger Ecommerce manages products, orders, inventory, payments, and analytics.
Once the plugin is installed, go to Hostinger → Ecommerce in your WordPress admin panel to connect an existing store or create a new one, add a payment method, and add products. Products sync automatically to your WordPress store, and customers complete checkout through the Hostinger Ecommerce hosted checkout page.
Check more about the features of this plugin in this guide: How to set up the Hostinger Ecommerce plugin for WordPress.
Hostinger Reach
Hostinger Reach is an email marketing plugin that connects your WordPress site to Reach, syncing contacts from your site’s signup forms and enabling automated email campaigns.
Once connected, Hostinger Reach appears as a dedicated menu in your WordPress admin panel. From there, you can connect to Reach, create signup forms, manage supported third-party form plugins, and set up WooCommerce integrations such as abandoned cart emails.
Check more about the features of this plugin in this guide: How to integrate WordPress with Hostinger Reach.
AI Content Creator
AI Content Creator is a free AI content generator available with Web Business and Cloud hosting plans. It also enables the Hostinger Agent chat bubble, letting you interact with Hostinger Agent directly from your WordPress dashboard.
Once installed, go to Hostinger → AI Content Creator in your WordPress admin panel, choose your content type, tone of voice, and content length, then describe the topic you want AI to generate content about and select Generate content. Review the result, customize the keywords and meta description, then publish the post or page or save it as a draft.
Check more about the features of this plugin in this guide: How to use the WordPress AI Assistant in Hostinger.
The same Hostinger AI Plugin that powers Hostinger Agent and AI Content Creator also supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), letting external AI tools such as Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Cursor connect directly to your WordPress site and manage it using plain English.
Check more about the features of this plugin in this guide: How to connect AI tools to your WordPress site via MCP.
AI Website Builder
AI Website Builder generates a full WordPress site structure, design, and content based on a brief description, using Gutenberg or Elementor as your page builder.
You can launch AI Website Builder while creating a new WordPress website, or access it from Hostinger → AI Website Builder in your WordPress admin panel on an existing site. Select your editor, language, and store location if applicable, then describe your brand and let AI generate your site structure, colors, and content.
Check more about the features of this plugin in this guide: How to use Hostinger AI Website Builder for WordPress.
Hostinger Affiliate Marketing Tools
Hostinger Affiliate Marketing Tools helps you add affiliate links to your content in several display formats. It supports Amazon worldwide and Mercado Livre for Brazilian and Mexican users, and works with both Gutenberg and Elementor.
Unlike the other plugins in this article, Affiliate Marketing Tools isn’t installed automatically. Go to WordPress → Overview, scroll to Recommended installations, and select Install next to Hostinger Affiliate Marketing Tools. Once installed, go to Hostinger → Affiliate Marketing to connect your Amazon or Mercado Livre account. You can then insert a single product, a product list, or a comparison table directly from the block editor or Elementor.
Check more about the features of this plugin in this guide: How to use the Hostinger Affiliate Marketing Tools plugin to build an affiliate website.
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