Getting started

Sign up with your email and a password, then verify the address from the link we send — you can't create a website until that's done.

Create your first website

From My websites, press New website. The moment it's created it has a live address — your-name.vpress.app — so there's something to open and share before you've written a single page. Nothing about that address changes if you connect a domain of your own later; see Connecting a custom domain.

Find your way around

Open a website from My websites and you land on its dashboard, with a sidebar down the side and an Open site link in the top corner that opens the live site in a new tab. Which sections you see there depends on two things: your role on that website, and what your plan includes. Most sections your plan doesn't include yet are still listed, dimmed with a lock — click one to see what it adds, or read Plans and billing. A section you don't see at all needs a higher role.

Roles run from viewer up to owner, and decide who can publish, manage the team, or change billing. See Team roles and permissions for the full ladder.

A few good next steps

• Write and publish something — see Writing and publishing content.
• Pick a template and a colour under Themes — see Themes and design.
• Bring in a colleague from Users — see Team roles and permissions.
• Selling something or taking bookings? Start with Taking payments.
• Moving from WordPress, Ghost or Medium? See Moving your content to VPress.