Deploying to your <a href="https://www.deployhq.com/wordpress" target="_blank">Wordpress site</a> hosted with <a href="https://www.crucial.com.au" target="_blank">Crucial</a> is very simple with DeployHQ.
Firstly, you'll need to set up your DeployHQ project, then connect to your Crucial server.

## Setting up your project

Head to the **Projects** screen in DeployHQ, then click the **New Project** button to get started.
You'll be prompted to enter a name for your project, then select where your repository is hosted.
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Next, click **Create project** and you'll be taken to a screen where you can log in with your repository hosting account to authorise access and then choose your repository.

* [Adding a Bitbucket repository](Article: #17)
* [Adding a Codebase repository](Article: #19)
* [Adding a GitHub repository](Article: #21)
* [Adding a GitLab repository](Article: #23)
* [Adding a repository manually](Article: #25)

## Setting up your Crucial server

Once you've configured your repository, you'll need to connect to your Crucial server.
Head to **Servers & Groups**, and click the **New Server** button at the top of the screen. If you've just added your repository, you will have been taken to this page automatically.

Start by entering a name, and choosing SSH/SFTP as the protocol:

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Next, enter your Crucial server's hostname, your username and port _(typically 22)_ and password. To find your SSH credentials:

1. Log into your Crucial Web Hosting control panel
2. Navigate to the "Hosting" or "Manage Hosting" section
3. Look for "SSH Access" or "SSH/SFTP Details"
4. If SSH access is not immediately visible, contact Crucial support to enable it

Important Crucial Hosting SSH Access Notes:

- SSH access may vary depending on your hosting plan type
- Shared hosting might have more restricted SSH access
- Managed WordPress and VPS plans typically offer full SSH access
- You may need to whitelist your IP address for SSH connections

Here, if you wish, you can also use an SSH key instead of a password, which is set up by taking the SSH key in your DeployHQ server configuration page, and pasting it in your Crucial server, in `~/.ssh/authorized_keys`.

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Connection Troubleshooting:

- Verify your hosting plan supports SSH access
- Ensure SSH is enabled for your account
- Check the correct hostname (often provided in your hosting control panel)
- Typical hostnames might look like: `servername.crucial.com.au`

Once this is done, you can enter a deployment path (where you want files to be placed on the server). 

Typical Crucial Wordpress Path:

- Shared Hosting: `/home/username/public_html/`
- Managed WordPress: `/home/username/public_html/wp-content/themes/`

Next, within **Deployment options**, you can choose to automatically deploy your server and, if you're only deploying files from a certain directory in your repository, enter a **Deployment subdirectory**.

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In this case, as you probably just want to deploy your Wordpress theme folder, you'll enter the path to the theme. If you only keep the theme in version control, you can leave it blank.

Click **Create Server** to finish, then you can proceed to start your first deployment.

## Run your first deployment

By default, DeployHQ will upload the whole repository to your server on the first deployment, because there is no previously deployed commit to compare to.

If your files are already on Crucial though and up to date with the latest commit, you can follow this guide to skip that first deployment:

* [Don't deploy your whole repository on the first deployment](Article: #129)

Otherwise, just follow this guide to start your first deployment, then after the first deployment, only files that have changed will be uploaded in future.

* [Running your first deployment](Article: #43)

That's it! You've now set up and run your first deployment to your Crucial server and your future changes will be uploaded for you automatically, or at the simple click of a button.

## Further reading

DeployHQ has a number of very useful features to help with your Wordpress deployments in general that you might wish to find out more about:

* Compiling assets and javascript with the [Build pipeline](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/what-is-a-build-pipeline)
* Running commands on your server with [SSH commands](Article: #57)
* Stop certain files from being uploaded in deployments using [Excluded files](https://www.deployhq.com/support/excluded-files)
* Keep important files safely away from your repository using [Config files](Article: #47)
* Keep your team in the loop and run other useful tasks during a deployment with our [Integrations](Article: #327)

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