Do you have more than one website? Have you built your sites on WordPress?
If you answered yes to those questions, then you need to know about ManageWP. It’s a hosted dashboard for managing all of your sites with one login.
Instead of moving from site to site to site to do routine maintenance (like updating plugins and themes or responding to comments), you can log in to your ManageWP dashboard and do it all from one site.
We’ve always worked to simplify our WordPress management. Previously, we used WordPress Multisite in an effort to consolidate all of our installations. That actually led to more problems than it solved. We had particular difficulties with SSL setup and management.
With multiple sites comes a great deal of administration. Each site requires daily updating and monitoring. We use a variety of services to manage uptime, handle security, do backups, rank keywords, etc. ManageWP helps us eliminate many of those services and bring more functions into one control panel.
How to Streamline Your WordPress Management
We’re using ManageWP to handle the following:
- Backups,
- Upgrades for WordPress,
- One click plugin updates,
- Database cleanup,
- Uptime monitoring and alerts,
- Traffic alerts,
- Keyword rank monitoring,
- Comment responses (on some sites not using Disqus),
- Monitoring stats from Google Analytics, and
- Securi.net integration.
We’re pleased with ManageWP. Its support has proven to be first rate. If you’re in the situation we’re in, with multiple WordPress installations, this is a product you should try.
ManageWP has a free option for users with fewer than five sites. The plan we’re on costs us about $500 per year.
