How to deploy Wordpress website in Netlify?

truong-milkyway · December 21, 2021, 1:51am

PLEASE help us to deploy Wordpress website in Netlify. Thanks.

nathanmartin · December 21, 2021, 1:54am

You cannot host WordPress on Netlify.

Netlify is a hosting provider for static websites (and websites that utilise serverless functions).

WordPress runs on PHP (and MySQL), Netlify do not offer PHP based hosting.

There are ways you can utilise WordPress as a CMS for a site hosted on Netlify, but you aren’t just “hosting WordPress”.

Here’s an example article:

truong-milkyway · December 21, 2021, 1:58am

Thanks for reply. I try to generate the static website from Wordpress then deploy manual to netlify. But netlify showed status “Site deploy in progress” 2 days ago and keep running.

nathanmartin · December 21, 2021, 1:59am

Can you share your build log, or a screenshot of it?

Sometimes Netlify builds can get “stuck”, which may be the case here.

truong-milkyway · December 21, 2021, 2:01am

I following this website to generate the static website:

truong-milkyway · December 21, 2021, 2:03am

nathanmartin · December 21, 2021, 2:10am

That deploy isn’t running, so I wouldn’t be waiting for it to finish.

What do you have configured in your Deploy settings -> Build settings?

truong-milkyway · December 21, 2021, 2:18am

I waiting 2 days. No, i just manual copy source, not link to Git

nathanmartin · December 21, 2021, 2:25am

When you say that you manually copied the source, do you mean that you did a “drag & drop” deployment?

If that’s the case, you may want to try clicking on the Cancel deploy button and trying again.

truong-milkyway · December 21, 2021, 2:38am

Yes, “drag & drop”, actually I canceled 2 times but still waiting too long

truong-milkyway · December 21, 2021, 2:41am

nathanmartin · December 21, 2021, 2:47am

It should be fairly straightforward and deploy very quickly, as a “Drag & drop” deploy doesn’t build anything it just ships the files to the CDN.

Are you dragging & dropping an archive (zip file) or a folder from your computer?
Have you checked what it is that you’re submitting to Netlify to make sure there’s nothing odd about it?

truong-milkyway · December 21, 2021, 2:50am

Yes, I send zip file (150 MB), but as observation, I see uploading very fast (1-2s) then netlify said “deploying your site”

coelmay · December 21, 2021, 3:36am

Hi @truong-milkyway

Have a look at [Support Guide] My drag and drop deploy is stuck in "Uploading" status which states

Deploys under 50MB work best.

And

After 10 minutes, that older, stuck deploy will never publish

You are best advised to push the statically generate site to a git provider and deploy from there, or deploy via the Netlify CLI.

PatN123 · December 21, 2021, 8:28am

I had this same issue when trying to deploy a WordPress website on netlify. I am no expert, though I’d like to be , I have found that using the Simply Static plugin works. If it still doesn’t go through, then if you upload it to github then deploy that way it gives you a log, so you can see what the issue is.

As I said I am not expert, but I thought I might as well share my experiences.

luke · December 21, 2021, 10:49am

Hi, @truong-milkyway. I’m guessing that the upload is timing out with the Drag and Drop deploy. If that is happening (and I do believe it is), the best solution is to manually deploy using the Netlify CLI tool.

There is more documentation about that here:

The Netlify CLI deploys will automatically resume if there is a timeout which will prevent the “stuck deploy” behavior you are seeing. Note, if you want the manual deploys with Netlify CLI to auto-publish, you must remember to include the --prod option. If that option is not included, the deploy occurs but it won’t become the production deploy. You can then, however, manually promote it to the production deploy using the Netlify web UI.