A shell, one click away

Open a session

1. Open Terminal

   Sidebar → Advanced → Terminal. The page lists your live sessions and the last few closed ones.

2. Click Open terminal

   A shell starts inside your own container in a second or two. The status pill turns green when it is connected.

3. Type as you would in any terminal

   You land in your site's document root. Try wp plugin list, wp cache flush or php -v.

4. Close it when you are done

   Type exit or press Close. Sessions are single use; New session starts a fresh one.

What you can do

• WP-CLI for everything WordPress: plugins, themes, users, options, search-replace, cache flushes, cron runs.
• PHP and MySQL clients for one-off scripts and queries against your own database.
• curl and tar for fetching files and unpacking archives without the file manager.
• Copy and paste from the header buttons, and font size controls for small screens.

On your phone

The terminal fills the screen and resizes itself when the keyboard opens. A key row above the keyboard gives you Esc, Tab, Ctrl, arrows, Home, End, Ctrl-C and paste, so a quick wp cache flush from the train is a two-tap job.

Limits and safety

• Two live sessions per account.
• Sessions close after 10 minutes idle and after 60 minutes total.
• Every open and close is written to your account's audit log with the time, IP and duration. What you type is never stored.
• The terminal is included on every plan and can be switched off per account by support on request.