WordPress and WooThemes management made easy -

Today we have Tom Ewer, chief blog officer at ManageWP guest blogging on a subject we feel very appropriate for you our WooThemes community. (Please be aware that this is not a sponsored post. )

As a huge WooThemes lover, it's an absolute pleasure to be published on this blog.

Multiple WordPress Web Site Management made Simple

I won't keep the reader in suspense the duration of this article. I'm speaking about ManageWP. ManageWP service:

But I wouldn't worry about that at the moment for two reasons:

1.       You can avail an entire 14-day trial for free today    
2. Once the trial period is over, you'll remain be able to access many features free of charge

Here's what I'm talking about Let me introduce myself: I'm WooThemes lover, freelancer working across a myriad of sites and an experienced ManageWP avid user and a fanatic. It is possible that you are the same as myself, however you may not have given ManageWP an opportunity to try it out. In this post I want show you the reasons how you can benefit from it.

One Click Updates

Now let me suggest that you sign up your client websites to the ManageWP service. When the next time an update comes along, you're looking at just an easy click to upgrade every plugin on all your sites:

Boom! An arduous and time-consuming process has turned into something fast and straightforward. You get to enjoy the latest and greatest version of (or whatever other plugins that are in need of being updated) instead of spending the entire day sifting through website after site.

This functionality applies to all themes and plugins accessible through WordPress.org. The future is when we'll be able to expand this feature for all themes and plugins, including the premium ones.

Scheduled Backups

In all honesty I can tell you that nothing scares me more than the notion of losing valuable datain particular when it's related to websites that you use and your reputation at stake. If it's because of server problems, hackers, or that trained monkey you hired accidentally clicking the delete button You must protect yourself against data loss.

That's the place where ManageWP can help in that it can be set up to restore every website you manage or own:

You can choose to back just the database or all your files. That is really all files that you have, including your plugins and themes as well as their settings. If your site implodes tomorrow you could have it in operation within the next day, when you restore via a ManageWP backup. Your website is safe!

Site Cloning

If I can digress for a moment One of the features I like the most about WooThemes' Canvas framework is its flexibility. It provides the opportunity to create a (rather appealing) empty canvas on that you are able to create an array of original designs. Similar can be said about any WooThemes theme. The flexibility offered by hooks and filters allow you to customize easily.

However, anyone who designs websites to earn a living could attest to the tedious process of getting a site prepared for development. What I mean by this is the installation of themes and plugins, tweaking the settings, and so on. This process is usually similar (or extremely alike) each time. What if you could start with the tweaked model of the WordPress site, complete with WooThemes products and other bits and pieces installed and set to go?

Well, with ManageWP's site cloning feature you can. Create an initial template website and then transfer it in complete to any other domain whenever you'd like. The process may sound rather complicated but it's actually done in just a couple of clicks. No longer will you need to go through that tedious task of setting up a new site template more than.

WordPress, WooThemes and ManageWP: A Match made in Heaven?

I'm really just scratching the surface but I don't want to ramble on all day. If you're like me, then I know the likes of of one click updates as well as scheduled backups and Cloning can get your blood flowing. But, it would be remiss of me not to mention a few others that I'm certain you're going to love the sounds of.

• All WordPress dashboards from one central area
• Send dynamically generated reports of actions taken on client websites.
• Control spam comments, make post changes and the overhead of a database
• At-a-glance Google Analytics stats
• SEO rank and data tracking
• Monitoring of uptime
• Security scanning

There's loads more too. It's possible to go on for the whole the day (but I won't! ).

At the end of the day, here's how I view it:

1. I absolutely love WordPress and don't think of utilizing another CMS
2. The themes and plug-ins from WooThemes are unbeatable -- they're always my top option
3. ManageWP simplifies the management of WordPress and WooThemes products far simpler affair

The whole thing works. WordPress, WooThemes and ManageWP are all peas in a pod.

Don't believe me for it. You already know how awesome WordPress and WooThemes are. Now is your opportunity to complete this package. Test ManageWP no cost nowand see what are you losing?

If you have any queries or comments at all concerning the ManageWP service, or about anything else do not hesitate to shoot off in the comment section!