Self-host WordPress on your own computer
Run a WordPress site on a computer you already own, at its own web address with HTTPS: a free dargo.app subdomain or your own domain. No hosting plan, no port forwarding.
Install WordPress from the App Store
Sign in at my.dargo.net, open App Store, search for WordPress and click Install. Pick the device it runs on.
Choose its web address
Keep Subdomain and type a name, for example alexblog. Your site will live at alexblog.dargo.app, with HTTPS. Click Install and wait a few minutes.
Run the WordPress setup
On your device's page, click the arrow on the WordPress card. WordPress asks for a language, then your site's title and an admin account (username, password, email). Click Install WordPress, then Log In.
Build your site
The dashboard is the normal WordPress dashboard: write posts, add pages, choose a theme and install plugins.
Optional: use your own domain
On the WordPress card, click Settings, choose Custom Domain, type your domain (for example www.yourblog.com) and add the DNS records Dargo shows. After Verify and Save, WordPress switches to the new address by itself, with HTTPS. See Use your own domain.
Good to know
- The site, its database and your uploads stay on your computer.
- The computer has to be on and connected for the site to be online.
- Links you typed by hand into posts keep the old address after a domain change; WordPress's own links follow the new one.
- Want a private site first? Turn on Dargo Access so only the people you invite can open it.