Flywheel Hosting and Configuration

Flywheel configuration

Flywheel (FW) is a WordPress hosting company. We pay for a freelancer-style account for 10 sites.

Related: Cloudflare – used to provide name servers (NS) because FW does not offer NS.

Login – Dashboard

• Create new account
• Local by Flywheel
  • Allows development on a local computer i.e. Laptop
• Turn on a domain
  • Usually, new FW accounts use a temp URL provided by FW
  • When ready to go live, we need to turn on the real domain
  • Goto FW > Dash > account > Domains > Click “Add Another Domain”
  • Enter the URL of the website being activated on FW
  • Note you can add without WWW and Flywheel will ask to add www for you, look for a check box.
• Force-www is handled by FW
  • On the Domain sidebar, make the www.domainname.com primary
  • Also, make sure you have www in all the WordPress settings
• SSL
  • You must manually activate the SSL on FW
  • Goto FW > Dash > account > Domains > Click “Enable SSL”
  • Pick the free SSL if appropriate, click buttons to complete the process
• Development Mode
  • Goto FW > Dash > account > Advanced > Development Mode
  • This is set to “On” during site development so caching is off and changes can be seen instantly
• Going full live
  • Turn off development more
  • Turn on WP_DEBUG and WP_CACHE