Steps to Enable or Disable Experimental Features:

1. Log in to your ZipWP account using your credentials.
2. Navigate to the “My Account” section by clicking on your profile icon or name in the top right corner of the screen.
3. In the “My Account” section, locate and click on the “Experimental Features” tab.
4. To enable or disable a specific experimental feature, such as the Custom Site Builder, toggle the corresponding switch on or off.
5. Once you have toggled the desired features, the settings will be automatically saved, and the selected experimental features will be enabled or disabled.

Accessing Enabled Experimental Features

After enabling experimental features like the Custom Site Builder, you can access them through the ZipWP sidebar. Simply navigate to the appropriate section, and the enabled experimental feature will be available for you to explore and test.

Additional Information

Enabling experimental features may expose you to temporary issues or bugs, as these features are still in development. By participating in this process, you contribute valuable feedback that helps improve ZipWP’s overall performance and user experience. If you encounter any issues while using experimental features, please share your feedback with our support team or through our official communication channels.

Keep in mind that experimental features may be modified or removed at any time as we refine and optimize these tools based on user feedback. Your participation in testing and providing feedback is greatly appreciated, as it helps us deliver the best possible experience for all ZipWP users.

For example, let’s say you’ve created a form that collects a user’s name and email. Instead of asking the user to re-enter their details when launching a website, you can pass that information via URL parameters to instantly create and launch a site based on your Blueprint.

Launching Blueprints site without parameters:

Launching Blueprints site via URL parameters:

In this article, we’ll help you understand how you can use this feature!

How Does It Benefit You?

This feature is useful for anyone using ZipWP Blueprints.

By passing details such as name and email directly via the URL, users can launch a website instantly, without needing to go through multiple steps.

This makes the user experience smoother and saves valuable time for both website creators and their clients.

Not only does this feature improve efficiency, but it also enhances user satisfaction, as it reduces redundant form fills. Whether you’re a WordPress product author or a user of ZipWP Blueprints, this functionality will simplify your process.

How to Use the URL Parameter Feature

Once your Blueprint is ready, you can use the following parameters to pass form data directly in the URL:

• – ?launch=true – This triggers the automatic launch of the website.
• – &name={{name}} – This passes the user’s first name from the form.
• – &email={{email}} – This passes the user’s email address.

For example, your Blueprint share URL may look like this:

https://zipwp.com/blueprint?launch=true&name=John&email=john@example.com

By using these parameters, the website will be instantly launched with the user’s details.

Conclusion

The URL parameter feature for ZipWP Blueprints saves time and effort for both you and your users.

By allowing form data to be passed directly in the Blueprint URL, this feature ensures a smooth and efficient process for launching websites. Whether you’re running a business, managing client projects, or just looking to streamline website creation, this update makes the entire experience easier.

While you share your blueprints with others, ZipWP can help you collect information like name and email from users who create websites from your blueprints.

For example, if you’re a website designer offering free templates, you can collect contact information from people who use your blueprint. You can treat these contacts as leads for further communication.

In fact, you can collect this information and pass it to any tool that you might be using, such as CRM, email marketing tools, or Google Sheets, for analysis or communication.

In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of collecting user information from your Blueprints.

How to Collect Details of People Who Use Your Blueprint Links?

ZipWP provides an outgoing notification system, through which you can collect blueprint user data via webhooks.

You can leverage webhooks to gather user information like names and email addresses when someone creates a website from your Blueprint.

You can use an automation tool like Zapier or OttoKit to connect ZipWP with any other tool that you use.

Now, we’ll understand the process by taking OttoKit as an example. You can follow the same steps to set up the workflow in a tool like Zapier.

What is OttoKit?

OttoKit is a visual automation builder that helps you connect multiple WordPress sites, plugins, and web apps with each other to automate tasks.

Like sending an adding order details in a Google Sheet when someone purchases from your ecommerce store.

The magic happens through triggers and actions.

A trigger event occurs when a notification is received on a webhook URL, and an action is a subsequent task performed in response to that trigger event.

One complete set of a trigger and actions is called Workflow.

How to Set Up Workflow to Connect Blueprints via Webhooks?

First, you can sign up for OttoKit and use their free plan. It offers 1,000 tasks per month, which includes the features you need to set up the workflow.

After you’ve signed up, you can follow the steps below to create the workflow.

Step 1: Setting Up OttoKit’ Webhook in ZipWP

• Log in to your OttoKit account, and click the “Create Workflow” button.

• Give a name to your workflow and click on the create button.

• Click the “+” icon and search for “webhooks.”

• Copy the webhook URL.

• Go to your ZipWP account and edit the blueprint you want to use in this workflow.

• Toggle on the “Collect email” option. Select the information you want to collect, such as name and email. You can toggle off the information you don’t want.
• Next, paste the webhook URL that you copied from OttoKit.

• Click the “Update” button.

• Now copy the blueprint URL and open it in an incognito window. You will see the fields to enter the details your users would enter. Fill out the details and click the “Launch Website” button.

• Return to OttoKit, and you will notice that the data you submit is displayed. We will use this data to forward it to other tools in the next steps.

• Click on the “Save” button to save this trigger step.

Step 2: Setting Up Action to Pass Data in Different Apps

To better understand how setting up actions works, let’s use Google Sheets as an example. We’ll store user details in a Google Sheet.

Let’s continue setting up the workflow:

• Click on the + icon.

• Search for Google Sheets and select it as your action app.

• Choose “Add New Row” as the action. 

• Connect your Google Account by clicking the “Create New Connection” button in the Select Connection field.

• Select the sheet and the worksheet where you want to pass the data.

• Click “@” to map data from the previous step. This data is called dynamic data which changes with every new response that you get from your trigger step.

• Match the corresponding data to the corresponding field.

• Click the “Test action” button. You can check your spreadsheet for a test entry.

• If you’re satisfied with the entry, save this step and publish the workflow.

That’s it! You’re done setting up the workflow. Now, whenever someone uses your blueprint, OttoKit will pass the data to the designated sheet.

Similarly, you can pass data to any app you want by creating workflows to connect ZipWP with your other apps.

We hope that you find this article helpful. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to reach out to us.

For instance, an e-commerce company may want to operate multiple online stores targeting different markets, product categories, or customer segments. With WordPress multisite, they can easily set up and manage separate storefronts for each niche within a single WordPress installation.

So, instead of managing multiple e-commerce platforms separately, WordPress multisite allows the company to oversee all its stores from one central dashboard. 

In this article, we’ll show how easily you can create and set up multisites within ZipWp.

Creating WordPress Multisites Using ZipWp

Follow these steps to create your own multisite in ZipWP:

• Navigate to your ZipWP dashboard and create a new blank website.

• Provide a name for your website and enable this checkbox to create a multisite network.

ZipWP will create a new WordPress multisite with you as a super-admin/network admin. This role has the highest level of access and authority over the entire Multisite network. 

Setting Up WordPress Multisites

Note: ZipWP does not currently support mapped domains on WordPress Multisite setups. This means that while you can create multiple sites within your network, you cannot map custom domain names to these individual subsites at this time.

You can find all the network-level settings at My Sites > Network Admin. Access this area whenever you want to manage all the websites connected to your network. 

Note: These options will only be visible to you as a super-admin. 

• To create a new site within your network, access My Sites > Network Admin > Sites.

• Here you will find all of your subsites including your primary one. Click on the Add New Site button to create a new WordPress site.

• Choose the website’s URL, title, and admin email here. If you opt for a completely new email, a new user will be created using that email, and the login details will be sent to the new email address.

• You can also access these sites directly from the My Sites dropdown menu.

When it comes to plugins, you can only install and delete them through the Network Admin section. Here’s how you can manage plugins:

• Navigate to My Sites > Network Admin > Plugins.

• You can install any plugin directly from this section.

• You can activate your preferred plugins for the entire network by choosing the Network Activate option from the “Installed Plugins” section. This ensures that the plugins are activated on all your sub-sites simultaneously.

• This is how the same section appears on one of your sub-sites.

• Only network admins can deactivate or delete these plugins for the entire network.

These are just a few examples of what ZipWP multisites can help you achieve. Create a multisite now to open up even more possibilities!

And if you have any more questions, please contact our support team. They’re always here to lend a hand whenever you need it!

While it’s helpful to stay informed about your site’s status, frequently creating and deleting websites might clutter your inbox with email notifications.

Luckily, ZipWP lets you turn off notifications for creating, deleting, and expiring sites now. You can choose to disable notifications for all of them or just for specific ones.

For instance, you can prioritize critical notifications, such as site expiration, ensuring you never miss an email when a site expires.

Here’s how you can do it.

• Log in to your ZipWP account.

• Click on your profile icon at the top and go to My Account.

• Click on the Edit button next to Notifications.

• Toggle off the notifications you don’t want to receive and click on the Save Changes button.

That’s it! You’ll now stop receiving email notifications for the choices you disabled.

We hope this helps you. If you need any assistance, please feel free to reach out to us!

That’s where ZipWP comes in. It makes creating test WordPress sites incredibly convenient. Just type try.new in the search bar and create a new WordPress site.

You can even create a website with a WordPress theme or plugin already installed.

In this guide, we’ll explore how ZipWP simplifies the process of creating test WordPress sites, making it incredibly convenient and efficient.

Create WordPress Sites With try.new

Here’s how a new WordPress site is created instantly with try.new.

You can install various plugins on this website, experiment with different themes, and freely customize the website to your liking.

You can use try.new even if you don’t have a ZipWP account. The site generated without a ZipWP account will remain active in guest mode for 30 minutes. The site will be automatically removed after 30 minutes. You can simply close the tab once you’re done without any worries.

If you wish to continue working on the site and access additional features provided by ZipWP for an extended period, you’ll need to create a ZipWP account.

With a ZipWP account, websites created with try.new are automatically added to your dashboard. From there, you can easily name and manage them later.

Create a Website with Your Desired Theme/Plugin Pre-Installed

You can also create a new WordPress site with a theme/plugin already installed.

You can do this by replacing just one word in the URL in the WordPress plugin/theme repository. You can find these repositories here:

• WordPress Themes Repository
• WordPress Plugins Repository

For example, To try out a theme from the WordPress themes repository quickly, you can just swap ‘wordpress’ in the URL with ‘zipwp’ and hit enter.

ZipWP will create a new WordPress site with your chosen theme already installed.

If you already have a ZipWP account, this newly created website will be added to your dashboard. If you don’t have a ZipWP account, this website will stay active for 30 minutes.

You can also apply this to plugins as well. You can create new WordPress sites with pre-installed plugins.

For example, if you want to create a new website with SureCart pre-installed, you can follow these steps:

• Navigate to the SureCart plugin in the WordPress plugin repository.

• Go to the search bar and replace ‘wordpress’ with ‘zipwp’. So, the newly created URL will be: https://zipwp.org/plugins/surecart/

• A new WordPress site with this plugin installed will be created for you.

You can try this out with any of the themes in the WordPress theme repository.

By using these ZipWP features, you can test different plugins and themes to see how they work with your website. This allows you to make informed decisions about your websites.

We hope this guide makes trying out new plugins and themes easy for you. If you have any questions or need further assistance, feel free to reach out to us anytime!

Using random strings for usernames and passwords can be sometimes tricky because they’re harder to type and remember.

But now, you have the option to customize your username and password for your ZipWP websites.

By choosing something unique to you, like a favorite word or phrase, logging in becomes much easier. No need to remember or retrieve random strings of characters.

Here’s how you can make it happen!

• Login to your ZipWP account, then click on the profile icon and select My Account.

• Click on the Edit icon in the Preferences section.

• Here, toggle the Custom Login Credentials button.

• Set a new WordPress username and password here, and ensure that the password is more than 8 characters.

• Click on the Save Changes button once you’re done.

That’s it!

Now, all newly created WordPress websites will use these credentials whenever you log in.

Hope this guide helped you. If you need further assistance, please feel free to reach out to us!

For example, if you have already built a complete website and wish to duplicate it for collaboration with a team member who will be working on adding new sections, but you are cautious about potential impacts on the original site, you can create a clone of the original site and share it with your team member.

Note: This feature is available in the Pro and Business plans.

To clone a website in ZipWP, follow the steps below:

• Navigate to https://app.zipwp.com/sites
• Click on the three-dot menu for the site you want to clone.
• Click on the “Clone Website” option.
• Click on the “Start Cloning” button.

That’s all. The clone of your website will ready.

After you clone a website, you will notice that the new site will have the same design, configuration, and even the same login credentials. You can update them as per your needs.

We hope you find this article helpful. If you need further help, please feel free to contact us.

However, Cloudflare is one of the domain registrars that doesn’t make it easy to change your name servers.

So, if your domain registrar is Cloudflare and you want to use that domain name to white-label your ZipWP organization, you will need to follow a different approach, which involves generating API tokens for your website in Cloudflare and adding them in your ZipWP account.

In this guide, we’ll take you through the step-by-step process of white-labeling your ZipWP organization if your domain is registered on Cloudflare.

Note: The domain is white-labeled at the organization level. Therefore, when you white-label a domain for an organization, all the sites created within that organization will use your new domain. If you have multiple organizations, you will have to white-label their domains separately. Also, please note that this feature is only available on the ZipWP business plan.

Step 1: Generating API Token

The first step is to generate an API token from Cloudflare that will allow ZipWP to use your domain for creating sites.

To generate the token, simply follow the steps below:

• Log in to your Cloudflare account and go to your profiles section.

• Click on API tokens.

• Click on the Create Token button to generate a new token.

• You can use the “Edit Zone DNS” template, which will have a few permissions already selected that we need in the process. Click on the Use Template button.

• Now, you need to provide four permissions – “Zone read”, “Zone DNS Edit”, “Zone SSL and Certificates Edit” and “Zone Settings Edit” permissions. Add these permissions.

• Next, select the Zone resources for the domain you want to use to white-label your ZipWP account.

• Click on the Continue to Summary button.

• Review the details and click on the Create Token button.

Your token is now ready, and you just have to add this token to your ZipWP account to white-label your domain.

Step 2: Adding API Token In Your ZipWP Organization

Once the API token is generated, follow the steps below to add it to your organization.

• Click on your Organization from your dashboard on the left hand side.
• Click on Manage.
• Click on the White Label Domain option.
• Click on the Cloudflare API option.

• Add the API token you generated before, then click on the Connect button.

• Select the domain you want to use in your ZipWP organization, and click on Connect button.

And you’re done. Now, all the websites that you create with ZipWP will use your domain.

This is a simple process and will help white-label the domain for your ZipWP account if your domain is registered with Cloudflare. However, if you need any further assistance, please feel free to contact us.

ZipWP provides you the freedom to choose timezones from different locations globally. Initially, when you sign up, it’s set to UTC+00:00 by default.

No problem though, because you can easily switch it to a timezone that suits you better. Importantly, changing your account’s timezone won’t affect the timezone of your created websites.

In this guide, we’ll show how easily you can change timezones in your ZipWP account.

Let’s get started!

• Login to your ZipWP account.

• From your ZipWP dashboard, click on the profile icon in the upper right corner, and then choose My Account.

• Click on the Edit icon to start editing your personal information.

• Just select or search your preferred timezone from the dropdown menu. Click on the Save Changes button after you’re done.

And there you have it! Your ZipWP account is now perfectly aligned with the new timezone.

We hope this guide helps you. If you have any more questions, please feel free to reach out to our support team. We’re here to assist you!