Feature Ideas

Allow users to connect their plugin & theme license for 1-click activation on sites they are creating on InstaWP or migrating to a hosting provider.

Provide an option to take automated daily or weekly backups for InstaWP sites, this will help users recover sites if something goes wrong. Also an option to limit the automated backups to last X times.

Problem: I have 5 sites with a random name that were created a week ago. Now I don't remember why each one was created. Solutoin: A description field below the URL. I could explain the purpose of a site like "Testing Woo shipping options" or "Testing theme update".

We are working on a new version of WaaS portal which will allow end-users to manage their websites, view a list of websites they have purchased, buy more etc.

It would be great if the website owner could disable all installed plugins. If any unexpected errors occur, this setting will assist users in recovering the website.

Please explore a partnership with Gridpane. They also have funding from Automattic and are much more established than a platform like ServerAvatar. https://gridpane.com/

Figure out a way to make these two "talk" to each other. It could unlock 1-click staging website creation for (almost) anyone supporting their plugin business through HelpScout. I'd imagine a way to have a "request demo creation" on the right-hand side inside HelpScout's desktop UI, which forwards the request to InstaWP connect. The user receives a notification, approves it, and then the staging site is created. It would dramatically reduce the number of back-and-forth emails between support reps and clients. I also think this would be better served as a dedicated HelpScout app that integrates w/ existing WordPress HelpScout plugins.

Exporting static .zip for sites hosted on InstaWP.

Sometimes when we move a client from InstaWP to our production service we aren't quite ready to nuke everything on InstaWP. I'd like to be able to suspend the site (or redirect it from the dashboard) without deleting it while we wait for it to expire.

Simple brochure sites are primarily static, and don't need dynamic functions. Most of them require only a contact form, which can be taken care of by a third-party service. For these types of sites, an option to completely lock both the database and the file system would minimize maintenance and prevent security issues altogether, bringing complete peace of mind for clients and developers. Rocket.net implemented this feature recently, and it works well.

You will be able to switch on Activity logs for your connected websites (i.e our https://wordpress.org/plugins/instawp-connect/ plugin is installed). This will allow websites to send critical logs like plugin deactivated, admin user created to your email or slack (or other integrations).

At the moment, the first admin user account seems to be used for Magic login after for staging sites. There should ideally be a dropdown to select which admin user account is to be used.

Provide option in wordpress plugin to let people make custom name instead of random name for their staging so it's more visual in instawp dashboard.

Allow the selection of the datacentre location for staging sites created from within the WordPress plugin to speed up staging creation.

At present the template selection page isn't white labelled but is being considered. You can integrate the page using an iFrame. One thing I would be grateful for consideration is the following: Using the root domain for WaaS means that subdomains are no longer accessible by the client. As the nameservers are under the control of InstaWP via AWS would it be possible to add a custom subdomain like 'my.example.com' or 'clients.example.com' using the WaaS domain for the template selection page?