Site’s on WordPress.com do not use cPanel to manage common hosting features. WordPress.com uses a custom-designed control panel that includes all necessary features for web developers to manage their websites effectively. In this guide you will learn how to access the WordPress.com hosting features usually found in cPanel.
These are just some features available for your WordPress.com website. You can access various features via the Server Settings page.
SSH, or Secure Shell, is a protocol that allows you to connect to services such as web servers. This lets you connect to our servers and manage your WordPress.com website via command-line tools such as WP-CLI.
Check out our complete guide on SSH.
SFTP stands for Secure File Transfer Protocol (or SSH File Transfer Protocol) and is a way to access the files and folders on a website via a client program on your local computer.
Learn more about using SFTP on WordPress.com.
phpMyAdmin allows direct access to your site’s database. This is an advanced feature; accessing your database is not required for your site to function.
For more information, visit our phpMyAdmin and MySQL guide.
Information regarding our server setup can be found in the PHP Environment support article.
