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Manage multiple WordPress installations from one place

July 13, 2011 By 22 Comments

In this post I show you how to manage all your WordPress websites from within one dashboard. It is very useful when you need to do updates across all the websites. Obviously this is a huge timesaver.

Besides the updating feature, the utility does a lot of work to help you publish posts to multiple sites, update Themes, links and pages. Oh yeah and did I mention that it does backups for you as well. It’s amazing.

You can find ManageWP by Prelovac Media at http://managewp.com

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  • http://www.simplyuniquebabygifts.com/ Pat

    Wow! That tool is very useful! Thanks for letting me know about it!

    • Oscar Gonzalez

      You’re welcome Pat! Thanks for dropping by!

  • http://www.SKGaleana.com Sandra G

    Thanks for sharing that info. I look forward to managing all my wordpress websites in one place :D

    • Oscar Gonzalez

      Cool, this should help!

  • http://anunschoolinglife.com/ Joanne

    Great tool! It would be such a timesaver! How do you feel about it being safe. If someone hacks into one of your blogs, can they get into all of them?

    • Oscar Gonzalez

      Well, if someone hacks into one of the blogs, no they can’t hack the rest. If they were to break into my account with managewp then they could do some damage. I try to keep that password safe and hopefully never happens. Always have a backup and take preventive measures so this doesn’t happen.
      Thanks for stopping by Joanne!

  • http://jeanettefisher.com Jeanette

    Thank you for sharing this time saver!

    Your blog looks great. I like your template.

    • Oscar Gonzalez

      Thanks for the kind words Jeanette! It’s a work in progress but I think it does the trick for now, its Genesis based with a skin I really like. I have some stuff to tweak as time allows, but it does the trick for now.

      And you’re welcome. When I found this, I knew this would be a great time saver.

  • http://1800HART.com/blog/ HART (1-800-HART)

    Actually .. that IS a pretty cool tool!

    However .. how does it work with multisites? I have about 6 sites that when I upgrade, I have to go in and manually update the entire network of blogs associated with that single install, sometimes as much as 50 sites … does this tool cover that?

    (curious)

    • Oscar Gonzalez

      Isn’t it!?I thought it was pretty cool too, lots of Prelovac’s plugins are awesome too. I have not had a chance to try it against a multisite installation yet, I will shoot Vladimir an email and see what he says about that. And I think it’s an excellent question… but isn’t one of WordPress’ MU features that you can update all the networked blogs with one update?

      Or do you mean to tell me that you have 50 separate MU sites?

      • http://1800HART.com/blog/ HART (1-800-HART)

        I’ve got 6 sites on wpMU/multisite … one has 54, another 33, another 13 sites .. and then the other I just have either 1 site but as a network so I can use the /blog/ feature and keep the root .. or a small hand full of sites for testing. You have to update MU sites pretty much like normal blogs … first review and update plugins, then update the wordpress. THEN there is that single update that updates all the blogs in the MU site and update MysQL etc.

        It’s the same logic as using the managewp site. It’s not really a big deal to upgrade sites anymore with one click .. with MU sites it’s two clicks. However – if I upgrade 6 multisites with 1 click instead of 12 clicks it’s sort of a saving, plus I usually upgrade them ‘whenever I log into them next’ routine.

    • http://managewp.com Vladimir Prelovac

      Yes ManageWP supports both single site and multisite blogs, feel free to try it out.

  • http://shannonsmith1026@yahoo.com Shannon

    Thanks for sharing! I currently have one WordPress site, but plan to pass the info to a friend that will be thrilled. ps… love the way you shoot your vids with side by side view. Very cool.

    • Oscar Gonzalez

      Right on Shannon, please do pass it along if your friend can use the tip! And thank you for the compliments on the video. I’m playing around with a few formats but I like this one so far. Makes it a little more personable than other videos I’ve seen.

  • http://eatsukieat.com Sukhraj Suki Beasla

    Very helpful video! I didn’t know you could do that! I have multiple WordPress blogs and this really helps. Your videos are more helpful than my mindless, day to day fluff :)

    • Oscar Gonzalez

      Hi Sukhraj, thanks for the kind words. Your videos are cool too, just different topics. It’s all good! I hope you can use this on your WP blogs, it’s been very useful to me. I’ve added a bunch more sites that I manage and i wonder how I ever lived without it.

  • http://managewp.com Vladimir Prelovac

    Hi Oscar and thanks for the great review.

    You mention a case when upgrading a plugin would break your site – there is the “Ignore” link next to each upgradable plugin so you can add it to your ignore list for that site and just hit “Upgrade all” in future without worrying.

    • Oscar Gonzalez

      First off, Thank you Vladimir for putting this tool out and letting us take it out for a spin. Thanks for the tip on the ignore link, I think that will be very helpful. Some of the plugins I use definitely need hand-holding so I would use this option, but luckily its only a handful of plugins that have this problem. I really like this tool man, and some of the hidden gems that i didn’t even cover are awesome too.

  • http://cirquedumot.com Susan Silver

    This is going to be very useful for the future! Thanks for sharing this. I also love your screen cast and the use of the QR code. I might steal that ;)

    • Oscar Gonzalez

      Hi Susan! Thanks for stopping by and for your comments. I think it’s a pretty useful tip. Glad you like the screencast idea, just don’t forget where you saw it first ;) And you’re doing great with your site too!

  • http://socialhospitality.com Debbie

    Thanks for sharing, Oscar! I had no idea you could do that! You should add social media chicklets to individual posts so we can RT, etc., in one click :)

  • Chris Fleury

    Excellent Design and ideas Oscar.