How to Connect to Your WordPress Site Using SSH

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The best part about who we are is that SSH allows you to access your WordPress site from a remote server. No need to open your WordPress Dashboard.

Simply write several commands to perform operations such as installing WordPress, transferring files, creating directories, and more.

Using SSH is intended for more technical users or developers who want to run commands.

However, other users can also use SSH to access your site in case something goes wrong and you can't open the WordPress administration .

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That said, let's first look at how to use SSH to connect to your site's server.

The first thing to do is to check if SSH is installed on the site server.

Since SSH is a client-server technology, you can check if it is configured by contacting your WordPress hosting service , who will tell you. You can also try logging into your host's cPanel or Dashboard.

You should find something that looks like the image below:

Enabling SSH Access on Bluehost
Next, you need to write down the IP address, username, password, and port. You will need this information when you use SSH to connect to the site from your computer.