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GZCMS Cloud Site Spin Up Process

Updated

Site Creation / Registration Process

To register a new website in GZCMS for a GZ customer, execute the following steps:

  1. Login to GrowthZone Tenant one
     
  2. Select Admin from the left navigation sidebar 

     
  3. Enter a tenant name you wish to create the site for into the search box

     
  4. Login to the tenant by clicking its name in the search results

     
  5. Once in the new tenant, navigate to ‘Setup’ from the left navbar.

     
  6. Once in the setup, click the ‘GrowthZone Pages’ link

     
  7. Click the ‘CMS Settings’ Tab

     
  8. Click ‘Add’ Button to add a new site (fill out form and click Done)

    Note: For the Description usually we put "default website" - but not mandatory.
     
  9. On the new site created, Click the ‘Actions’ button and click on 'Domains'. 

     
  10. Enter a unique subdomain (i.e. abcassociation) and in the short term .growthzonecms.com will also need to be included (i.e. abcassociation.growthzonecms.com) 
    (This will create this new site on the cloud.  We have a jira to address the default that gets applied on this screen - growthzonecms.com is the new environment on the cloud, the default is growthzonesites.com which is the old environment on-prem)
    Click ‘Done’

     
  11. Select your new site from the profile dropdown to begin the GZCMS site creation in WordPress.

     
  12. Click on 'Build using BeaverBuilder Theme'
  13. Select the site (theme) to clone from the dropdown and click 'Continue'
  14. Continue through the 4 steps

     
  15. Once the 4 steps are complete, click 'Login'.

 

To register a new website in GZCMS for a CM/MZ customer, execute the following steps:

  1. Login to CM/MZ
     
  2. On the 'Logins - All Chambers' page, Ctrl+F and search by name or CCID to locate the customer's database and click 'Login'.

     
  3. Go to Setup > Association Options > Support Staff Only: Association Control Panel

     
  4. Under the 'Add-On Manager' section, go to GrowthZoneCMS Site.  In the 'Add Host' field, a full url is required that includes a unique subdomain for the customer (i.e. abcassociation) along with .growthzonecms.com (i.e. https://abcassociation.growthzonecms.com)

     
  5. Click 'Add Host' to add the domain to the 'Hosts:" area

     
  6. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click 'Save'

     
  7. Scroll to the top of the page and click on the newly added icon to begin the GZCMS site creation in WordPress

     
  8. Continue at step 12 above.

 

 

Site Login / Authentication Process

Since the wp-growthzone-registration plugin has dual purpose (site creation and site login), if a site already exists, the user will simply be logged into the site instead of going through the site creation process. 

 

 

Note: This page has been modified from the last update in March 2022.  The previous documentation has been saved in the attached word doc.
(5/16/23 jp)