Question 1

Shortcodes - How to build your Hub Pages using shortcodes inside Gutenberg or other popular pagebuilders

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By leveraging WordPress shortcodes within Gutenberg or other popular page builders, you can easily build your Hub Pages. This guide will walk you through the use of the following key shortcodes:

Dollie Blueprints Shortcode [dollie-blueprints] - Display a list of blueprint templates on your WordPress site.
Dollie Customers Shortcode [dollie-customers] - Showcase your customers on the front-end of your Hub.
Dollie Launch Site Shortcode [dollie-launch-site] - Present a form to launch a new site on your platform.
Dollie Site Content Shortcodes [dollie-site-content], [dollie-site-screenshot], and [dollie-site-navigation] - Enable your customers to manage their own sites with a dedicated Site Dashboard.
Dollie Latest News Shortcode [dollie-latest-news] - Display the latest news on your WordPress site.
Dollie Site Navigation Shortcode [dollie-site-navigation] - Display site navigation on your WordPress site.

Each shortcode comes with optional parameters to customize its functionality. Follow along as we explore the usage and benefits of each of these powerful tools.

You can add additional widgets from your pagebuilder to further build out your pages easily.

## Dollie Blueprints Shortcode

The Dollie Blueprints Shortcode allows you to display a list of blueprints (template) on your WordPress site. This shortcode can then be inserted for examp

Question 2

Setup - Adding your White-Label Deployment Domain

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||| Important: Please read the following guide on how to choose a good deployment domain first.

A deployment domain is a domain that is used to create the address for a site when it is first deployed. If your deployment domain is example.com, you will be able to create sites with domains like site1.example.com and customer.example.com. When you first subscribe to either the Pro or Hub Builder plans, you will be provided with a deployment domain to get you started that ends with dollie.io. Most customers will quickly decide they want to have their own deployment domain. In that case, you need to follow the steps below.

Have or purchase a domain name from a domain registrar

Domain names can be purchased from domain registrars such as Namecheap. You can use a naked domain, or indeed a subdomain if that makes sense to you.

Add the deployment domain to Control HQ

The below screenshot will indicate where you can add a new deployment domain. It is possible to add more than one deployment domain depending on your needs.

Update the nameservers at the domain registrar

Log in to your domain registrar and edit the nameservers to the ones provided by Dollie. Your domain registrar is the service you have purchased your domain from, or whe

Question 3

An Example Setup for Building a WaaS with Dollie

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Introduction

Are you looking for a complete solution to build a WordPress as a Service (WaaS) platform for your customers? Look no further! Dollie is the perfect alternative to traditional multisite installations like WP Ultimo + WP Frontend Admin. In this support article, we will provide a friendly and easy-to-read guide on how to set up Dollie to meet your specific use case.

## Rather watch a video? Watch our WaaS Webinar

1 - Understanding the Dollie Platform

Dollie is designed with three main components, offering flexibility, control, and scalability to meet your needs:

Your Private Cloud: This is where your customer sites are hosted. Each site has its dedicated environment, optimized for WordPress with dedicated resources and a firewall.
Your Hub: This is the central location where your customers can log in, manage their sites, view invoices, and access support resources.
Control HQ: As the name suggests, this is the control center for everything related to your platform. You can view all customer sites, create Blueprints for sale, and manage various other settings.

2 - Setting Up Dollie for Your WaaS

Now, let's walk through how to set up Dollie to fit your specific requirements:

Create Blueprints: Build one or more Blueprints that you want to sell for your WaaS. In Dollie, these are dedicated WordPress sites

Question 4

How do I setup my Blueprints inside my Hub?

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Blueprints are so powerful and flexible because you can create them in any way you want. You can bundle plugins, themes and custom code together to create a site that is perfect for your needs and sell them as a hosted solution. You can tie Blueprints to your recurring subscriptions and so much more. In this document we will first explain you how to create your first Blueprint.

Step 1 - Launch a new Blueprint.

In your Hub you can create a new Blueprint by clicking on the Launch New Blueprint menu link on any of your Hub pages. The Launch New Blueprint page was created automatically when your installed the Dollie Hub plugin so you should also see it in your Page listing in your WordPress admin.

In the first form field give your Blueprint a name. For example my-agency-blueprint.
Press Launch New Blueprint and the Blueprint will be created.
Once your Blueprint is launched you will see the same Dashboard as a regular site, but with one extra area to manage and configure this blueprint. You'll also see a bar at the bottom of the screen saying your new Blueprint is in Staging mode. This means that the Blueprint is currently only visible and usable by you, until you're ready to start using it. So what's next?

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Question 5

Page Builders - A Guide to Building Your Hub using any Pagebuilder (Elementor, Bricks Builder, Breakdance and more)

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Building a fantastic experience for your customers/clients within your Hub is straightforward with Dollie. This guide will show you how to adapt the experience to fit the needs of your team, clients/customers, and yourself.

Introduction to WordPress Page Builders with Dollie

In the vast ecosystem of WordPress, there's a plethora of page builders that webmasters leverage to design and customize their websites. Dollie seamlessly supports the most popular WordPress page builders right out of the box. To make the setup even more user-friendly for popular page builders, our team has crafted starter Hub templates. These can be selected when you launch your Hub via Control HQ.

Want to see the process in action? Here is our Elementor guide to building your Hub

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Your Core Hub Pages

When you install and activate the Dollie Hub plugin inside your WordPress installation, we automatically set up your Core Hub pages using some default templates. You can later customize these as per your requirements. Here's what's created:

Customer/Client Hub Pages

Dashboard A landing page for your customers/clients showing an overview of their sites, subscriptions, and other customizable widgets like news/updates.
Sites An overview directory of all Sites within your Hub. Customers/clients will only see the sites associated with them.
Launch New Site A page with the form to initiate a new site.
**Customer Logi

Question 6

How can I connect to a website's database?

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There is more than one means of connecting to a database.

Using The Database Manager in Control HQ or Your Hub

Adminer is a web based database administration tool written in PHP. It is included by default for all website in your Private Cloud and can be accessed either from Control HQ or in your Hub.

In either case, navigate to the management page for a particular site, go to Developer > Database Manager to access it.

Using the MySQL client

To manage the database using the wordpress cli, first you need to SSH to your website environment:

ssh user@examplewebsite.com

Once you are connected to your website environment you can connect to the database with the MySql client by executing the command from the command line.

mysql

Once the MySql client is connected to the database, you have the full power of MySql commands available to you.

Examples:

SELECT * FROM wp_usermeta WHERE meta_key = 'points' AND user_id = '1' SELECT * FROM posts WHERE post_title LIKE '%s'

Using a Desktop App

The most convenient way to access and manage your database is using a desktop app via SSH. We recommend TablePlus, which supports macOS, Windows and Linux. TablePlus offers a free trial which is limited to 2 opened tabs and 2 opened windows at a time, but you can upgrade to a paid license to unlock all functionality.

In order to use a desktop app such as TablePlus, you will need the following:

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