Creating a Site with Shifter

Shifter provides a wide range of support documentation on creating sites.
This includes how-to guides, troubleshooting guides, and related topics, all of which can be accessed from the support documentation homepage.

General Topics

Creating a New WordPress Site

The simplest step-by-step guide to creating a WordPress site with just a few clicks from the Shifter dashboard.

Resolving Deprecation Notices for WordPress Themes and Plugins

How to resolve errors and warnings that occur while running a WordPress container on Shifter.

Managing Artifacts (Static Sites)

Automatic Artifact Publication

How to automatically publish newly generated static Artifacts.

Disabling Automatic Artifact Publication

Steps to turn off the automatic Artifact publication feature.

Creating an Artifact

A Shifter Artifact is a static version of your WordPress site (a complete copy including HTML, CSS, and assets).

Previewing an Artifact

How to preview an Artifact before publishing.

Testing a Large Number of Posts Generated by the FakerPress Plugin

Testing 10,000 posts generated by the FakerPress plugin on Shifter.

Tips

If Site Deletion Fails

Permalink Settings

Shifter supports only “Pretty” WordPress permalinks.

Multilingual Sites

Shifter recommends the “Polylang” plugin for multilingual support.

Blocking Search Engine Crawlers

How to block crawlers from accessing your staging or pre-production environments.

Integrating the WP Serverless Forms Plugin with Basin

Add a contact form to a Shifter-generated site.

Integrating Algolia Search with WordPress

How to integrate Algolia Search, which offers fast search, keyword autocomplete, and sorting features.

Moving Offloaded Media to the Shifter CDN

Use the Shifter Media CDN to store media on a dedicated CDN.

Redirect Settings Using the Redirection Plugin

Shifter supports redirects using the “Redirection” plugin.

Troubleshooting

How to Resolve 404 Errors

This occurs when the homepage is not configured in “Load Settings.”

Responding to Error Messages from Generator

Check the notification email to determine how to resolve the error.

Resolving Deprecation Notifications

How to fix errors and warnings that occur while the WordPress container is running.

Obtaining Debug Information via the Health Check Plugin

How to share information with Shifter Support and resolve issues.

Troubleshooting the Generator

Tips to try when the generation process fails.

Emergency User

A user who can log in temporarily.

Safe Mode

Start WordPress in safe mode when a problem occurs.

Unblocking pop-up windows

Specifications for the pop-up windows used when previewing Artifacts.

Canceling Artifact Generation

How to stop the Generator.

Error Codes (Password-less Login)

Common error codes and their solutions.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Can I use WooCommerce?
Currently, WooCommerce is not supported on static site generators or serverless hosting platforms, including Shifter.
Can I use Gravity Forms?
Since it requires PHP and AJAX, it is not compatible with Shifter and is not recommended.
Can I use .htaccess?.htaccess files cannot be used in the Shifter production environment.
Can I use wp-cron?
Shifter does not fully support wp-cron.
What about WordPress Multisite?
At this time, Shifter does not support WordPress Multisite.
Why does the WordPress container stop?
Shifter is a static site generator, and this behavior is due to the nature of serverless hosting.
I want to know my site’s IP address
A static IP is not assigned. Use Shifter’s URL for the CNAME record and the CDN hostname for the ALIAS record.