This guide will explain the tools you need, such as WHM and WP Toolkit, and how to customize and upload the ZipWP AI Onboarding plugin, so you can offer a seamless WordPress setup experience to your clients.

What is WHM?

WHM (Web Host Manager) is a tool used by web hosting resellers and server administrators to manage multiple cPanel accounts.

It acts as the higher-level control panel for managing web hosting servers, reselling hosting services, and creating individual cPanel accounts for your clients.

For example, if you’re a web hosting company offering shared WordPress hosting, you’ll use WHM to create hosting accounts for each client. 

From there, you can allocate resources such as disk space, bandwidth, and set permissions for their account. You can also manage security settings, SSL certificates, DNS configurations, and install WordPress or other applications for your clients through WHM.

What is WP Toolkit?

WP Toolkit is an additional tool that integrates into cPanel or WHM, providing a powerful set of features specifically for managing WordPress websites. 

It offers one-click installations, theme and plugin management, automated updates, and security hardening, all from a single interface.

When you install WP Toolkit within WHM, you can manage WordPress for multiple sites across different cPanel accounts. 

This includes setting up WordPress for new clients, updating WordPress versions, installing essential plugins, and offering security tools—all from within the same dashboard.

It allows you to install WordPress for new clients with just a click. Plus, you can create “sets” of pre-configured plugins, themes, and settings (such as the ZipWP AI Onboarding plugin) to automate the setup process, so when your clients log into WordPress for the first time, everything is already configured.

How to Customize Your ZipWP AI Onboarding Plugin?

Once you have purchased ZipWP for the Hosts plan, you can customize and download your AI onboarding plugin, which you can distribute to your clients easily. 

This plugin helps your clients quickly set up their WordPress site using AI, making the onboarding process smooth and efficient.

Here’s a complete guide to help you understand the customization process: Host Dashboard Settings Guide.

You can customize the plugin by branding it with your brand company’s name, brand colors, plugin name, description, etc. 

This ensures your customers see your branding while using the user interface of onboarding plugin AI.

How to Upload Your AI Onboarding Plugin to Your WHM Account?

The process of installing your custom AI onboarding plugin to your WHM account is straightforward. Follow these steps:

• In the search bar at the top of the WHM dashboard, type “WP Toolkit” and open it.

• Click on “Sets” and then “Create Set.”

• Give a name to the set. Name the set something like “ZipWP AI Onboarding Set” for internal reference. This won’t be shown to your clients.

• After the set is created, click on the “Add plugins” option.

• Upload the AI onboarding plugin that you downloaded earlier.

• Toggle on the state button so the plugin is activated as soon as the package is installed.

That’s it. Your set has been created.

How to Add Default Set for Packages in WHM?

After you’ve created sets in WP-toolkit, you need to make sure that the set you created installs automatically when WordPress is installed from your service.

So you need to set default sets that should be installed when someone creates a site from your service. Here are the steps that you need to follow to do the same:

• Search for “Edit Packages” from WHM.

• Select the package that should include the AI onboarding plugin set.

• Checkbox the “WP Toolkit” option and select the set you created earlier for “Autoinstall Set.”

• Click on the “Save Changes” button.

That’s it! Now, whenever your customer creates a WordPress site using WP Toolkit on your server, they’ll see the AI onboarding plugin on their WordPress dashboard the first time they access it, providing them with a guided and user-friendly setup process.

Conclusion

We hope this article helps you understand how to set up WHM hosting to offer the ZipWP AI onboarding plugin. 

With WHM managing your hosting accounts, WP Toolkit handling WordPress installations, and the ZipWP AI onboarding plugin offering an enhanced experience, your clients will have everything they need to get started quickly and easily.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to us!

Business Plan

The ZipWP Business Plan, priced at $399, is designed for businesses and agencies that manage websites through the ZipWP platform. This plan includes the white-label feature that allows you to customize the domain name of websites.

For example, instead of displaying the default URL, such as ‘abcd-efg-hi.zipwp.site,’ you can customize it to display your own domain, like ‘site.mybusinessdomain.com,’ which enhances your branding.

For more information on white labeling in ZipWP, check out this article.

There are several other feature inclusions with Business plan that help you build websites faster.

Whitelabel AI Builder Plugin for Hosts

ZipWP For Hosts offers a more complete white-label experience that’s fit for hosting companies and agencies. With it, your customers will see your brand, not ZipWP’s, throughout the entire website-building process.

For more details on how ZipWP For Hosts works, including integration and customization options, you can check this demo.

We hope this article helps you. If you have any questions about white-labeling with ZipWP, our support team is here to help!

By default, the onboarding UI is set to English.

However, if you need to translate the UI into another language, the process is straightforward. This guide will show you how to do that.

Using Supported Languages

ZipWP supports a variety of languages for the onboarding UI. To ensure the onboarding UI uses your preferred language, simply set the default language of your WordPress installation to the desired language. 

This will align the onboarding language of the ZipWP plugin with the WordPress language.

Adding New Languages

If the language you require is not currently supported by ZipWP, you can contact us, and we will assist you in adding it.

The process of adding a new language typically takes 3-5 working days from the time of your request. 

Once the new language is available, we will notify you so you can test it. If the translation needs further refinement, we are happy to collaborate with you to improve it.

How You Can Contribute:

The ZipWP plugin includes all translatable strings within its files. To add a new language:

• Obtain the latest version: Download the most recent Whitelabel AI Builder plugin from the ZipWP dashboard.
• Locate language files: Navigate to the “languages” folder within the plugin directory and find the POT file for your language.
• Translate strings: Translate the strings in the POT file according to your requirements and save the translations in the corresponding file.
• Submit for update: Once your translation is complete, submit the updated POT file to us for inclusion in future plugin updates.

By following these steps, you can easily incorporate a new language into the Whitelabel AI Builder Onboarding plugin, enhancing the overall experience for your customers.

This includes how to add your branding and configure security and plugin related settings.

Let’s begin within the first tab – Branding Details!

Branding Details

Within this section, you will find the options to generate the customized version of your ZipWP plugin.

Here’s how the details you provide will be used and displayed to users.

Company Name

This name will be displayed in the plugin’s author/installed plugins section.

Company URL

This URL will be linked to the “visit plugin site” and author Name to help people navigate to your website if needed.

Company Description

This description is for internal reference only. It will not be displayed to your customers anywhere.

Dark Logo

This version of your logo will be displayed over light backgrounds. Here’s a dark logo for reference.

Light Logo

This logo will be displayed over dark backgrounds. Check out this light version of a logo for reference. 

Primary Color

The primary color controls the button color for the AI builder interface.

Primary Hover Color

Primary hover color controls the color of buttons upon hover state.

Secondary Color

The secondary color controls a lot of things like:

Sidebar

That’s all about branding details. Now you will be able to customize the AI builder based on your brand colors.

Next, let’s understand “Plugin Settings.”

Plugin Settings

Within the plugin settings, you can provide the plugin name and description.

 It will be displayed in the WordPress admin area.

You’ll also find an additional setting that allows you to automatically delete your custom plugin after the site is generated. 

This is especially useful if you don’t want your customers to see the plugin in the ‘Installed Plugins’ section and do not want your users to regenerate the sites with AI builder.

After you’ve added plugin details, you can configure usage and security related settings.

Security

In this section, you will find two main settings. Let’s understand them both.

Max Sites Usage Per User

When people build websites using your custom plugin, you can determine how many times they can regenerate the website.

For example, imagine you set the ‘Max Sites Usage per Number’ as 2.

Now, when people install WordPress and see the AI Builder screen for the first time, they can generate their website for the first time.

After the import is complete, and they’re not satisfied with the design, they can then access the AI Builder again through the Appearance menu and regenerate the website once more. 

However, after this second regeneration, the option to regenerate using the AI Builder will be blocked for your users.

Note: The regeneration of designs on the same website will consume the website generation limit assigned to your plan.

Whitelist IPs

To ensure website generation requests only come from authorized servers, you can whitelist your service’s IP addresses. 

This prevents unauthorized token generation requests from external servers.

That concludes all the settings related to your host dashboard. We hope you find this article useful. If you need more information, please feel free to contact us.

This interactive demo gives you an experience of the intuitive interface of the AI website builder as if it were branded for your own hosting company. Imagine your logo and colors seamlessly integrated throughout the building process, creating a familiar and trustworthy experience for your customers.

The AI website builder will ask clear and concise questions to gather the information needed to build a beautiful and functional website. It’s a truly streamlined process that empowers your customers to take control of their online presence.

How Does the AI Website Builder Work with Your Hosting Service?

Well, it’s very simple. There’s no need for complex coding to integrate the AI website builder with your hosting service. Just a vanilla WordPress setup just with a plugin that is white-labeled.

Here’s how it works:

• When your customers install WordPress from your hosting service, you’ll simply need them to insert a custom ZipWP plugin with the installation, which you can get upon partnering with us as a host.
• This custom plugin installs the AI website builder and automatically applies your brand colors and logo.

Learn more about setting up the AI website builder for your hosting service here: https://zipwp.com/docs/setting-up-zipwp-for-hosting/

How to Try the Demo?

To see how the AI website builder will look at your customer’s end, you can simply follow the steps below:

• Please visit this link: https://app.zipwp.com/blueprint/zipwp-host-demo-k5m
• Fill out your name and email address and click on “Launch”

• A new WordPress website will be created, just as it would be created on your hosting platform.

• Once the installation is complete, your customers will be taken to the AI website builder where the AI website builder will ask them questions to build the website. You will notice the that it doesn’t show ZipWP’s branding. You can put your brand colors and logo when you use AI website builder with your hosting service.

• Once you provide the information, your website will be ready. Your customers can upload your logo, choose a color palette.

• Upon clicking on the Continue button, they will be able to access their website.

Now, they can visit your website and review the design, images, and admin dashboard.

If they want to build the website again with the AI website builder for any reason, they can go to the “Appearance” menu in the WordPress admin area and click on “AI Builder.” They will be able to access the AI website builder again.

This is the how the white-labelled version of ZipWP will work with your hosting service.

Hope you find this article helpful. If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch.

After your account is set up, you can offer AI website builder to your customers within your hosting service.

Step 1: Sign Up for ZipWP

First things first, please create a new ZipWP account. If you’re subscribed to any of ZipWP’s existing plans, you will need a new account. 

Go ahead and register a new account here: https://app.zipwp.com/register

Step 2: Choose Your Plan

If you are a new host just getting started with fewer than 100 customer sign-ups or a requirement of generating up to 500 sites per month, we have special plans for you.

Access them here: https://app.zipwp.com/host-pricing

You have two options: monthly or annual. The annual plan is a great deal because it’s heavily discounted. If you opt for the monthly plan, it’s $149 per month. 

However, if you choose to pay annually, it’s $1,188 for the entire year, which works out to just $99 per month. Please choose the plan that works for your needs. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask us at support@zipwp.com.

Step 3: Setting Up Host Account

After you’ve made your payment, you’ll see a new menu option called “Whitelabel AI Builder” in your account.

Next, you’ll need to fill in some details to generate a custom plugin just for you. Enter your information here.

Please make sure that you fill these details carefully as they would be displayed in your custom ZipWP plugin.

There are additional settings under “Plugin Settings” and “Security” in your Whitelabel AI Builder dashboard that you can configure. Learn more about these settings here.

Step 4: Downloading & Distributing Your Custom ZipWP Plugin

Once you’ve filled in your details, you’ll be able to download your custom plugin as a zip file named “starter-templates-onboarding.zip”.

You’ll need to install this plugin on each WordPress instance that your hosting service creates. You can do this via WHM, WP Toolkit, WP CLI, or any method that your hosting control panel supports.

For a step-by-step example of how to do this using WHM and WP Toolkit, check out this document.

And that’s it! You can now track how many sites have been generated in the ZipWP dashboard.

We hope that you find this article useful. If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to reach out to us.