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DesktopServer version 3.5.2 has a new direct deployment feature to get your WordPress websites from your desktop to your hosting provider in just a few clicks. No FTP or SSH client is necessary. In fact, you won’t even need such credentials to launch. What you will need is a hosting provider that supports WordPress’ File System Direct feature (fortunately, most shared and VPS hosts support this). This post will show you how to use the new feature to launch your site live or to setup a preview site on an existing domain for client previews. A quick summary of what we will cover follows:

1. Install WordPress on your destination server. 
2. Activate the DesktopServer for WordPress plugin.
3. Use DesktopServer’s “Direct deploy to an existing server” option.

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DesktopServer Premium edition has new export functionality for greater compatibility when deploying your WordPress creations to a live host. This document will show you how to use the new features with the original deployment methods to deploy your sites successfully on a wider range of hosting providers and with greater success when migrating proprietary theme and plugin settings. I’ll start by summarizing the new steps we’ll need to perform followed by a detailed step by step description below:

1. Ensure your target compatible host server has a working WordPress installation (to be overwritten).
2. Install the “DesktopServer for WordPress” plugin on your target live host’s WordPress instance.
3. Export your localhost development website to a compatible .zip archive for deployment.

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Deploying your WordPress website from your desktop to a live server is easy if your host uses cPanel. You won’t even need to mess around with FTP software as cPanel includes a file manager utility that can greatly simplify and speed this task for you. DesktopServer Premium also features a Quick Deploy feature that can make it faster for small to medium-sized sites. But in this post I’ll show you how to deploy a site manually with cPanel alone which is better suited for larger or more complex sites that Quick Deploy may not support. There are three basic steps to deploying manually:

1. Create an Empty Database
2. Export Your Development Website
3. Upload Your Website Data

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This article covers the original deployment method known as “Quick Deploy”. A new deployment method has been released called “DirectDeploy” that does not require an FTP client and can simplify most deployments. Click here for more information about the newest “DirectDeploy” feature.

Quick Deploy can make deploying your development website to a live server extremely easy. In this post, I’ll show you how to use Quick Deploy and the steps to get your site working on a compatible live server quickly.

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