{"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":"2026-10-29T14:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:53:37","slug":"5609869-how-to-manually-enable-the-wordpress-overview-section-on-hostinger-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5609869-how-to-manually-enable-the-wordpress-overview-section-on-hostinger-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"How to manually enable the WordPress Overview section on Hostinger dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Manually enabling the WordPress Overview section on Hostinger dashboard adds WordPress management tools to a website where WordPress was migrated or installed manually. Open WordPress Overview in the website&rsquo;s dashboard, select the domain or subdomain, and click Detect.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">It is enabled automatically whenever you <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-install-wordpress-via-auto-installer\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/3220304-how-to-install-wordpress-using-auto-installer-in-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">install WordPress via Auto Installer<\/a>.<\/p><p><strong>NOTE<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li>This does not apply to Agency Hosting plans, since Agency Hosting does not have a separate WordPress Overview page. If you plan to use WordPress on an Agency Hosting plan, install it directly when <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-adding-a-new-website\" href=\"\/support\/1583214-how-to-add-a-website-in-hostinger\/\">adding a new website.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h-enable-wordpress-overview\">Enable WordPress Overview<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">If you migrated or installed WordPress manually, you can easily enable it<b> <\/b>by opening <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-websites\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a><\/b> &rarr; <b>Manage site<\/b>, searching for <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-support-5609910-how-to-use-the-wordpress-overview-in-hosting\" href=\"\/support\/5609910-how-to-use-the-wordpress-overview-in-hostinger-dashboard-at-hostinger\/\"><b>WordPress &rarr; Overview <\/b><\/a>on<b> <\/b>the left sidebar, and clicking on it:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/09\/e64a6b05-3c82-4878-b4b0-23b9cc6dd039.jpg\/public\" alt=\"WordPress menu with the Overview item highlighted\" width=\"250\" data-media-id=\"4161\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">If the <b>Overview<\/b> option does not appear, search <b>WordPress Install<\/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\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20651\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-15_13-29.png\/public\" alt=\"\" width=\"1725\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-15_13-29.png\/w=1725,fit=scale-down 1725w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-15_13-29.png\/w=300,fit=scale-down 300w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-15_13-29.png\/w=1024,fit=scale-down 1024w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-15_13-29.png\/w=768,fit=scale-down 768w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-15_13-29.png\/w=1536,fit=scale-down 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1725px) 100vw, 1725px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">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 Hostinger dashboard.<\/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><h2 id=\"h-wordpress-tools-temporarily-unavailable-during-migration\">WordPress tools temporarily unavailable during migration<\/h2><p>If you have an existing WordPress installation and initiate a migration to the same domain, certain WordPress features in Hostinger dashboard (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>Manually enable WordPress Overview on Hostinger dashboard for a migrated or manually installed WordPress site by detecting it on your domain.<\/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-hostinger-dashboard","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-BR","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-\u044f\u043a-\u0443\u0432\u0456\u043c\u043a\u043d\u0443\u0442\u0438-\u043e\u0433\u043b\u044f\u0434-wordpress-\u0432-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":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22991,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/22991"}],"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}]}}