For those with too many WordPress sites, ManageWP to the rescue!
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Note I am not affiliated or paid by ManageWP in anyway. Just thought it would be a nice service to mention here.
One of readers at AdSenseFlippers.com, mentioned a new service called ManageWP in recent post. ManageWP allows you to consolidate WordPress dashboards all in one place. It's still in beta and free to sign up, though they are going paid at the end of October for $50 a month for 500 sites. This hosted solution is actually built around the ManageWP Enterprise Self-Hosted software.
I have been "kicking the tires" pretty hard and ManageWP has pretty much stood up to every test. It uses a worker plugin to connect to each site. This saves you from having to enter your credentials into ManageWP and makes for a more secure connection overall. One note, however: be sure to add your site to your ManageWP dashboard after activating the worker plugin. This will close the loop and ensure no loose ends are left for someone to exploit.
The power of ManageWP is really in it's ability to give you a quick snapshot of what's going on with all your sites. You can see what sites need a WordPress update, plugin update or even theme update and then update them all at once. You can even connect to your Google Analytics account and have a stats snapshot on your dashboard. Backups, posts, pages, plugins, themes and users can be added in bulk, making it easy to make a change across all your sites.
Sub-users can be added so outsourced staff can have access to your sites, without having a username or password directly. This makes it more secure, because you can revoke access to all sites at once if needed. The sub-user section still needs some work, as they cannot do mass updates or use groups, but I am sure the functionality is on the way.
There are still some bugs, including importing sites and the aforementioned lack of subuser feature/functionality, but overall I feel this will be an extremely useful product for those of us with a large number of niche sites running WordPress.
Let me know your thoughts and experiences with ManageWP. The developers are very open to new features and bug reports, but would like to make a push before going live. Just use the smiley face/sad face at the bottom of your dashboard.
Joe Magnotti
One of readers at AdSenseFlippers.com, mentioned a new service called ManageWP in recent post. ManageWP allows you to consolidate WordPress dashboards all in one place. It's still in beta and free to sign up, though they are going paid at the end of October for $50 a month for 500 sites. This hosted solution is actually built around the ManageWP Enterprise Self-Hosted software.
I have been "kicking the tires" pretty hard and ManageWP has pretty much stood up to every test. It uses a worker plugin to connect to each site. This saves you from having to enter your credentials into ManageWP and makes for a more secure connection overall. One note, however: be sure to add your site to your ManageWP dashboard after activating the worker plugin. This will close the loop and ensure no loose ends are left for someone to exploit.
The power of ManageWP is really in it's ability to give you a quick snapshot of what's going on with all your sites. You can see what sites need a WordPress update, plugin update or even theme update and then update them all at once. You can even connect to your Google Analytics account and have a stats snapshot on your dashboard. Backups, posts, pages, plugins, themes and users can be added in bulk, making it easy to make a change across all your sites.
Sub-users can be added so outsourced staff can have access to your sites, without having a username or password directly. This makes it more secure, because you can revoke access to all sites at once if needed. The sub-user section still needs some work, as they cannot do mass updates or use groups, but I am sure the functionality is on the way.
There are still some bugs, including importing sites and the aforementioned lack of subuser feature/functionality, but overall I feel this will be an extremely useful product for those of us with a large number of niche sites running WordPress.
Let me know your thoughts and experiences with ManageWP. The developers are very open to new features and bug reports, but would like to make a push before going live. Just use the smiley face/sad face at the bottom of your dashboard.
Joe Magnotti
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