What's New in ZipWP

If you’re an agency or hosting company using ZipWP’s WhiteLabel AI Site Builder, here’s a powerful new addition to enhance your users’ experience.

🎯 Introduce a Guided Post-Build Workflow

You can now enable the “Finish Setup Guide” — a clean, step-by-step checklist that appears after the AI generates a website. This guide helps your users review key settings, make final adjustments, and confidently launch their sites.

This guide includes helpful videos and instructions that will help people launch their website faster.

It’s perfect for reducing support questions, improving onboarding, and giving your users a more structured path from AI-generated to ready-to-go-live.

Off by Default

To keep your WhiteLabel experience simple and brand-consistent, the Finish Setup Guide is disabled by default. But if you want to offer a more guided experience, you can turn it on anytime from your WhiteLabel AI Site Builder settings.

By enabling the Finish Setup Guide, you empower your users to complete their website with confidence, access helpful tutorials, and reduce the back-and-forth with your team.

It’s a small addition that creates a big impact on user experience.

We’re introducing a highly requested upgrade to ZipWP Hosting—you can now add and verify your existing domains in advance.

Before:

Domain connection was always the final step. You’d finish your design, update DNS, and then wait anywhere from 30 minutes to 24 hours for propagation.

Now:

Add and verify your domain days or even weeks earlier. When your design is ready, simply click Go Live and your already-verified domain connects instantly.

Result?

Your site goes live immediately—no DNS delays, no waiting.

This update ensures smoother launches, faster go-live moments, and an overall better publishing experience with ZipWP Hosting.

We’ve refined how we name sites in ZipWP to make things simpler and more meaningful.

What’s Changed

The term “Staging Site” (previously used for temporary or experimental sites) has now been replaced with “Sandbox Site.” This update makes it clearer how each type of site fits into your workflow. Here’s how it works:

Ideal for building and experimenting freely with no live site attached. Think of them as your creative playground — build, test, and explore safely before going live.

These staging sites are linked to your Live Sites. These are used for testing updates or new changes before deploying them to your live production site.

Why We Made This Change

Both experimental and live-linked environments were previously labeled as “Staging Sites,” which caused confusion. By introducing Sandbox Sites, we’ve made the distinction clearer — you now have one space for exploration and experimentation, and another for safe deployment and testing linked to live sites.

What this means for you:

Nothing changes in how you use ZipWP. Your sandbox site will still work exactly the same way. You’ll just see the new name across the platform for a more accurate and friendly experience.

We hope this change helps you!

We’re excited to share that ZipWP Cloud plans now include a free domain.

That means no more juggling between providers or extra steps. Just build your site with AI, host it, and go live with your own domain, all from one dashboard.

Managing your hosting resources just got easier!

You can now view your total Cloud account’s disk space and inode usage directly in your ZipWP account.

• Cloud Disk Space: the amount of actual storage your websites are using across your entire account.
• Inode usage: this represents the total number of files and folders (like images, themes, plugins, and backups) stored in your hosting space.
• Instantly check how close you are to your resource limits and upgrade your plan when you need more space or capacity.

You can view this under Dashboard → Live Sites → Select any Cloud Site → Usage.

We hope you find this helpful.

The White-label AI Site Builder now supports Chinese and Russian languages. This makes it even easier for your customers and teams to build AI-generated websites in their preferred language.

This update is live for all users on Host Plans using the White-label AI Site Builder.

Now your global audience can build beautiful WordPress sites in their own language! 🇨🇳 🇷🇺

We’ve made launching your website even easier.

You can now purchase domains directly from ZipWP. No need to leave the platform or deal with third-party registrars.

✅ Domain Search & Purchase: Find and secure your perfect domain without leaving ZipWP.
✅ Transparent Pricing: See clear first-year and renewal prices on checkout.
✅ One-Click Setup: Your new domain is automatically connected to your ZipWP site. No messy DNS setup required.

Your website deserves a great name. And now, getting one is as simple as setting up your site. No extra steps. No external accounts.

ZipWP has grown from being just a staging site tool into a complete website launch platform. Now you can build, brand, and go live.

We’ve added a new Purge CDN Cache option inside the Cache Settings menu for your Cloud Sites!

You can now instantly clear your site’s CDN cache directly from your ZipWP dashboard. This ensures your visitors always see the most up-to-date version of your site.

With this new feature, you can:

• Instantly refresh your site’s content globally.
• Ensure design or content updates reflect immediately.
• Improve site performance by managing cache efficiently.

Where to find it:

Go to Dashboard → Live Sites → Manage Site Icon → Cache. You’ll now see the “Purge CDN Cache” option along with the existing WordPress LiteSpeed cache control.

Keep your site fast, fresh, and always up to date with just one click! ⚡

We’ve added support for PHP 8.3 and 8.4 on all ZipWP staging sites.

This update ensures your sites are ready for modern development and remain compatible with the latest themes and plugins. You’ll also see performance improvements and gain access to the newest PHP features.

With this upgrade, you can:

• Test your sites for future PHP compatibility
• Take advantage of better performance during development
• Build using the most up-to-date PHP capabilities

You can switch your staging site’s PHP version anytime directly from your dashboard.

We’ve made an important update to how you view your plan usage and limits on ZipWP.

What was the issue?

Previously, disk space used by both Staging Sites (Platform) and Live Cloud Sites was shown together. This caused confusion for users trying to understand which part of their storage was being consumed by which service.

What’s new?

We’ve now clearly separated usage metrics for:

• Platform Usage (Staging Sites, Blueprints, AI Generations, etc.)
• Cloud Site Usage (Live Cloud Sites and associated storage)

This update ensures better visibility and helps you manage your usage more effectively.

Whether you’re scaling staging environments or growing live websites, you’ll now see exactly how your resources are allocated.You’ll now notice that the Platform and Cloud Site limits are shown in two distinct sections.

They display clear tracking of how many sites you’ve used and how much disk space has been utilized.

Hope you find this update useful!