Help Center
Step-by-step guides for everything your website can do — from your first page to your first sale.
Getting started
Your account, your first website, your team and your plan.
Getting started
Create your first website, find its free vpress.app address, and see what a role can and can't do.
Team roles and permissions
The five roles from viewer to owner, what each one can reach, and how to invite someone to help.
Signing in and account security
Passwords, Google, passkeys and two-step sign-in for your VPress account — and how visitors sign in to your site.
Plans and billing
Upgrade, switch or cancel your plan, find your invoices, and what happens when you reach a limit.
Getting help from VPress
Open a ticket with the VPress team, attach screenshots, follow the conversation, and see how soon your plan is answered.
Content and design
Pages, posts, landing pages, photo albums, the look of your site, forms and languages.
Writing and publishing content
Posts versus pages, drafts and scheduling, categories and tags, media, and moderating comments.
Themes and design
Pick a template, adjust its layout, colours and type, preview it live, and set your logo and favicon — without touching your content.
Landing pages
Build your home page and campaign pages from sections, preview drafts, publish when ready, reuse sections, test headlines and see what visitors do.
Photo albums
Galleries on your site at /albums — and the password, proofing and download tools to hand a shoot to a client.
Forms and submissions
Build a contact form, survey or registration, share it on your site, and read or export what people send.
A site in several languages
Choose your main language, switch on others, and translate pages, menus, forms, courses and the rest.
Domains, data and connections
Your own address, broken links, moving content in and out, connecting other tools, and deleting a website.
Connecting a custom domain
Point your own domain at your website: the DNS records, the two ways to verify it, and what each status means.
Broken links and redirects
See which addresses on your site lead nowhere, and send visitors to the right page instead.
Moving your content to VPress
Bring posts, pages and images over from WordPress, Ghost or Medium — and take everything with you if you leave.
Backing up your website
Download everything as a file whenever you like, have VPress keep copies on a schedule, or have them pushed to your own Google Drive.
API and webhooks
Let other programs read your site's content, form submissions and subscribers, and tell them the moment something happens.
Deleting a website or your account
Delete a website with 30 days to change your mind, or close your VPress account for good.
Audience and members
See who visits, let members sign in their way, write to your readers, sell memberships, and run a community and forums.
Analytics
Visitors, pages, sources and results on your site — counted without cookies.
Sending a newsletter
Collect subscribers on your site and email them issues written in the post editor.
How members sign in to your site
The emailed code, and Continue with Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, GitHub or GitLab — through VPress's apps or your own.
Paid membership
Keep your best posts and pages for paying members, and sell access through your shop.
Running a community
A members' network on your site — profiles, a feed, spaces and notifications — and the tools to run and moderate it.
Running forums
Discussion boards on your site — categories, titled topics and replies, with formatting and images — plus rules for who reads and posts, and the tools to moderate them.
Courses, presentations and events
Teach, present, train and bring people together on your site.
Selling and running online courses
Build, sell and run courses: lectures, quizzes, written answers your tutors grade, assignments, cohorts, bundles, learning paths and the progress of every learner.
Presentations
Make slide decks in the dashboard, share them on your site, present with notes or live with polls and quizzes, and use them in posts and courses.
Client organizations and their teams
Give a client company its own space on your site: departments, positions, roles, members and assigned courses.
Running events and selling tickets
Publish one-off or repeating events, take free registrations or sell tickets, and check people in at the door.
Podcast, knowledge base and helpdesk
Host a show, build a dictionary or encyclopedia, and answer your visitors' questions.
Hosting a podcast
Publish episodes with a player that keeps playing across your site, send your feed to Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and add transcripts, members and sponsors.
Building a knowledge base
Run a dictionary or encyclopedia at /wiki — or several — with your own fields, categories and design, A–Z browsing, instant search and suggestions from readers.
E-book library
Put your books online as PDFs, EPUBs and audiobooks: free, for members, for buyers, through a library plan or lent a copy at a time, with search, highlights, reviews and reading stats.
Running a helpdesk
Let your site's visitors ask for help as tickets, answer them as a team, and let the assistant suggest knowledge-base entries first.
Video and streaming
Your own video channel, live broadcasts, and a film-and-series service.
Music
Sheet music, records and your press kit.
Sheet music and scores
Publish your works as PDFs and interactive scores that play, write and print scores for any line-up, sync recordings, sell or hire out parts, and teach with them.
Releases and press kit
Put your albums, EPs and singles at /music with a player that keeps playing, and give press what it needs at /press.
Selling and bookings
Take payments, run a shop, take appointments and serve guests.
Taking payments
Connect Stripe, ZarinPal or bank transfer, follow every payment in one list, and handle refunds and discount codes.
Setting up your shop
Add physical and digital products, set shipping and tax, and take orders from checkout to delivery.
Taking appointments online
Set up services, staff and their hours, and let customers book — and pay — from your site.
Restaurant menu, reservations and orders
Publish your menu, take table bookings, and let guests order at the table by QR code or online for pickup and delivery.
Still need help?
If the articles don't answer your question, open a ticket and the VPress team will get back to you.