Does Softaculous’ automatic installer improve your WordPress experience?
Softaculous is an Auto-Installer like Fantastico and Installatron. Although WordPress is not included in their Free Scripts, the price of a paid version of Softaculous is approximately $2.5 per month. This is a fairly small price to pay for the benefits it will bring you. This article is about the valuable addition that Softaculous has to offer when it comes to your WordPress experience. The goal of this article is to highlight the need for an automatic installer to make WordPress administration easy and less hassle.
autofill
The Softaculous installer automatically fills in the installation form when it is about to install WordPress. This means that it automatically fills in fields like database name, database table prefix, site name, site description, admin username, admin password, address administrator’s email address and the default language to use. Auto-populating these fields helps keep naming conventions (such as database prefix) consistent and also helps randomize values (such as database name and administrator password) so that hackers find it hard to guess the password or database name. This saves the administrator the headache of preparing some innovative options and allows WordPress to be installed in a jiffy. It also helps novice users by telling them what values should ideally be placed in text fields. This can be a huge relief to people who were previously hinted at by WordPress’ built-in installer, which was not newbie-friendly. If you’re not happy with what Softaculous has suggested, you can always modify the values in the form’s text box. This ensures flexibility for those who want customization.
Advanced Options
Softaculous Contains a set of advanced options that allow you to ensure the security and data integrity of your WordPress blog or website. The form allows you to set update notifications that will notify you when a new version of WordPress is available for installation. This means that you don’t need to bother checking if you have the latest WordPress software, which is more secure compared to older versions.
WordPress auto-update is another feature that Softaculous offers. This means that you can configure Softaculous to automatically backup your WordPress files and update them to the latest version of WordPress as soon as it is available. This means you don’t need to worry about updating your WordPress installation and can focus on creating great content for your site.
Automatic update of plugins and themes
This is a new feature of Softaculous. It allows you to update all your plugins and themes to their latest version. Buggy plugins are one of the main causes of security vulnerabilities in WordPress. This means that any third-party software you install may contain some vulnerabilities that may be fixed in newer versions of the plugin. Although WordPress allows you to update plugins and themes from the admin interface, softaculous allows you to schedule updates and automatically updates core theme and plugin files, without your intervention. It is always advisable to take a regular backup of your site, in case the automatic process fails and causes your site to crash.
Automatic backups
Softaculous allows you to automate backups of your WordPress installation. This means you can automatically backup your website on a daily, weekly or monthly basis to your hosting account’s home directory. You can then download the files to your computer at a later date. In case you have a plan with limited space, you can choose to rotate backups. That is, if the backup rotation limit is reached, Softaculous will delete the oldest backup for that WordPress installation and create a new backup.
Softaculous also pulls the information from your WordPress configuration file and displays the installation details in a simple form, which you can use to share backend details with your development team.
Your hosting provider must purchase Softaculous and install it on your server. We highly recommend Softaculous due to its ease of use and smooth operation with cPanel/WHM. It is easy for both the administrator and the end user. Softaculous and cPanel are an amazing combination that is a must have.