How do you Manage multiple wordpress blogs???

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HI warriors ,

I have some 15 wordpress blogs . When ever i want to change setting for one plugin in all blogs i am manually logging in all blogs one by one and changing the settings. Is there any plugins which helps me in having a common dashboard to all the blogs without logging in each blog???

I am looking for free plugins . If premium plugins also fine but not the too costly ones . My sole purpose is "I want common dashboard for all the blogs".

One more thing is i want to know whether the plugin supports only same hosting account or different hosting accounts. Plzzzzzzz help as i am wasting hours and hours of time to change any one of the plugin settings in all my blogs .
#blogs #manage #multiple #wordpress
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    I remember what we did for a customer a while back was setup a cron that checks a central server for changed files or changes to certain database tables (but not all of them). It runs a couple of times per day. If there are changes, it downloads the files and overwrites on the children sites. You definitely need root access for activities like this but it does work, and in this case we were dealing with over 300 sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author coollife84
    i am looking for something similar to managewp plugin
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  • Profile picture of the author coollife84
    No one using this kind of plugins. Many of warriors will have lots of blogs na how r u managing that many ????
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  • Profile picture of the author getbizy
    Hello Coolife84....this wordpress plugin would be of help.....you can manage all your sites from one platform, just search for this wordpress plugin " ManageWP Worker " .....hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    NO need for bloaty plugins and paid scripts.

    This is built into Wordpress already. You just have to enable it.
    Create A Network « WordPress Codex

    Yes by default it will create sub domains or sub directories of your main site, but you can set it use the Domain Mapping to plugin to map Top level domains to a single installation of wordpress. That plugin is by wordpress employee, its free and well supported.

    The entire thing works extremely well. Saves hours of time when upgrading. And imagine having 23 sites using the same theme, say you want to tweak your adsense placement for better CTR. Since all lets say 23 sites sharing the same theme, you just gotta do it once and all sites get the updated placement. Same goes for plugins. They can be activated network wide or per site.

    I have 4 installs running over 200 websites, all with different TLDs. I try to round them out to about 50-60 sites per install as personal preference, but there's no reason you can't run thousands of these from one install if you have a sufficiently powered server. It's the same code that runs monster sites like wordpress.com and edublogs.org

    There's even more advanced stuff you can do like have multiple IPs available inside one install, so you can have sites in a single wordpress install and yet have them on different class C IPs
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  • Profile picture of the author kennyk3
    Though I've never used this plugin before, I've heard good things about it from reliable sources. And, it's currently in beta and free:

    Manage Multiple WordPress Blogs – ManageWP.com
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  • Profile picture of the author ModernDomains
    To manage blogs that you have already setup you can try something like WP Manager DX or XMark Pro which can be found on this forum.
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