So, being the visual geek that I am- the second I saw ManageWP I knew it was a godsend.

Why?

Because I consider myself someone who helps the EVERYDAY WordPress user, I’m always looking for tools, plugins, advice- whatever – that makes it EASY for people to make the most of their WordPress sites.

Enter ManageWP

There are a few different options for ManageWP (yes, including a free option)- but I’ll get into that at the end of the post. What you NEED to see is how easy it is to use, why you should use it and of course, what it is (I know, I haven’t said much about it yet, huh).

Here’s the quick & easy explanation:
ManageWP allows you to manage ALL your WordPress sites under ONE dashboard!
And I don’t just mean updating plugins or doing a backup.

1. One Login: First, one login to manage things just makes sense.  THANK YOU! (for people who don’t want to get into multi site)
2. Monitor: You can monitor ALL plugins and themes from your ManageWP account as well (and just click ONE button to update ALL)
3. SEO: Yep, it even has SEO options. You can view stats from your dashboard and try some paid options for SEO too.
4. Backups: What I like about the backups option is that I can eliminate another plugin from my site and use my Amazon S3 for storage of my backups!
5. Publish: You can add posts to multiple sites, add users and manage blogroll links too.
   (Not sure if this is a feature I’ll be using- but I think if you have niche sites where you are driving traffic with backlinks, etc. then this could be outstanding!)
6. Clone /Setup New sites: Yep! you can even clone current sites and do installs right from your dashboard too. I haven’t tried this out yet (but will).

This video is just a quick introduction to ManageWP. I’ll show you what the ManageWP dashboard looks like, how easy it is to update things and how to add a site (I’m telling you- it really is THAT easy!)

Oh- and before we get into the video- I should tell you who is behind ManageWP.

Vladimir Prelovac

You can read more about Vladimir on his blog, but he is a developer (plugin developer -SEO Smart links for one), author, blogger and contributor to the WordPress community.
You can check out the rest of the team over at ManageWP here.

O.K.- quick update.
As I was processing the video I sent a question over to ManageWP about which plugins could be eliminated. I literally got a response within 10 minutes! HOLY MOLY!

Here’s what Vladimir told me: Backups and maintenance plugin features are made obsolete by our features. He also said they’ll be adding more features (like security)- that will eliminate the need for other plugins.
Nice!

Enjoy the Video!!!

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