{"id":1030,"date":"2021-09-29T14:19:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T14:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2021\/09\/29\/5609869-how-to-manually-enable-the-wordpress-overview-section-on-hpanel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:57:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:57:01","slug":"5609869-how-to-manually-enable-the-wordpress-overview-section-on-hpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5609869-how-to-manually-enable-the-wordpress-overview-section-on-hpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Manually Enable the WordPress Overview Section on hPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\"><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/5609910-how-to-use-the-wordpress-dashboard-in-hpanel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress Overview<\/a> is a convenient tool for viewing all the important information about your website and managing the basic settings without logging in to your website&rsquo;s administrator dashboard every time.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">It is enabled automatically whenever you <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/3220304-how-to-install-wordpress-using-auto-installer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">install WordPress via Auto Installer<\/a>. If you migrated or installed WordPress manually, you can easily enable it<b> <\/b>by opening <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a><\/b> &rarr; <b>Dashboard<\/b>, searching for <b>WordPress Overview <\/b>on<b> <\/b>the left sidebar, and clicking on it:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/09\/e64a6b05-3c82-4878-b4b0-23b9cc6dd039.jpg\" alt=\"The WordPress Overview option in hPanel\" width=\"250\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">If the <b>Overview<\/b> option does not appear, search <b>WordPress<\/b> under the Website section, and you can also take this action from there.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Next, select the domain or subdomain from the drop-down list and click on <b>Detect<\/b>:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/09\/077a64e0-06ef-4256-a463-65ed1b9ace2e.jpg\" alt=\"Detecting the WordPress installation on a website at Hostinger\"><\/div><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE: <\/b>The drop-down will be available only if you have created <b>subdomains<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Give it <b>up to 10 minutes <\/b>and refresh the page &ndash; the WordPress overview should be added to your hPanel.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">If WordPress is still not detected, make sure all files are located in the correct directory&mdash;typically the <b>public_html <\/b>folder or the root directory of your domain.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\"><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: WordPress tools temporarily unavailable during migration<\/div><p>If you have an existing WordPress installation and initiate a migration to the same domain, certain WordPress features in hPanel (WordPress section in the sidebar, WP Admin button, AI Troubleshooter) will be <b>temporarily disabled<\/b> until the migration is complete. This is expected behavior &mdash; files are being transferred and the database is being updated, so accessing these tools during migration may cause errors. Once the migration finishes, all WordPress tools will be available again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enabling the WordPress Overview section via hPanel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress-dashboard"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5609869-how-to-manually-enable-the-wordpress-overview-section-on-hpanel\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/5609869-como-habilitar-el-tablero-de-wordpress-en-hpanel-de-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/5609869-comment-activer-l-apercu-general-de-wordpress-sur-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/5609869-cara-mengaktifkan-pratinjau-wordpress-di-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/5609869-como-habilitar-a-visao-geral-wordpress-no-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/5609869----wordpress--hpanel\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9153,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/9153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}