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In this video we'll look at a few different options for managing more than one WordPress Web site from

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a single location using these proven free and inexpensive services.

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You can save yourself a lot of time making updates monitoring your sites and keeping up with security.

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By the end of this lesson you'll be able to make an educated choice about how and when to take advantage

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of Web site management services.

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When you do you'll be monitoring all your web sites closely without lifting a finger and you'll be able

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to make widespread updates to WordPress core files plug ins and themes all from one dashboard here at

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WBM you dev dot org.

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I've got a nice blog post that was released actually three days ago according to the current date right

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now and it's about choosing a WordPress management dashboard.

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They do a nice review and a guide of several of these management platforms or management services giving

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them a rating and talking about exactly what each one does well and what each one could improve on.

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Most of these have a free level of service that you can use and see if you like it plug in a few sites

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and you can continue to use it for free as long as you like with most of these.

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And some of them have some premium add ons that you might want to take advantage of.

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Eventually I use managed W.P. and their Orion service which is right over here.

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This is their home page.

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It's managed W.P. dot com and here's what it looks like.

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Once I sign in my dashboard at managed W.P. shows me all the sites that are managed by this one single

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service and I've got a sample account set up where I'll be showing you a few things in detail about

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some sites I have set up to be managed by managed W.P. Orion.

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I encourage you to read this post at WP you dev dot org as well as do your own research on what the

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different companies offer and what you can get to start out with this blog post has a great overview

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down here that talks about whether it's an external management or internal self-hosted option which

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a few of these are and about whether you're a developer or an agency if you're going to have a lot of

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different Web sites that you manage these three are probably the best for that.

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But I'd encourage you to do your own research and see what available options are out there.

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We've talked about WGME you dev before as having a paid membership service which gives you access to

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lots of premium plug ins.

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They have themes as well and a huge community of Wordpress experts I find it's real valuable for me

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to be a member and one of the things they offer is this thing called the hub.

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And at tracking level through their management plug in of all the different Web sites that are signed

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up for their service and use the plugins and so from here instead of WBM udev once I'm logged in I can

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go to any Web site and I can look at some different things like what plug ins that I have and need updating

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I can have theme updates security performance and up time monitoring as well and ex-CEO as well as backups

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happening or not.

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I find that manage W.P. overlaps a bit of the services that my hub at WGME udev offers.

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And so I just kind of take the best and what I like most from each of the services let's go through

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some of the features of my managed W.P. Orion dashboard.

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I'm on the dashboard here where it shows me three different sites right down here.

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I can open or close this filter's list where if I had a whole lot of sites I could look at them and

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look at which ones don't need an update.

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Which ones are have updates available.

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Which ones have secure sockets layer available and enabled et cetera.

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So under this managed plug ins tab you can see that I'm managing plug ins for two Web sites and it'll

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show me of all the plug ins that managed W.P. is tracking on all my web sites.

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Which ones are active on which web sites so I could select any of the plug ins by checking boxes here

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and then either activate deactivate deactivate and delete or even update plug ins if it's necessary.

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So I'll just hit this back button to go back to the dashboard screen over here on the left hand side

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I can down here I can hide those filters and then appear if you click over view you can see that this

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is an overview of all of the sites tracked by managed W.P. Orion.

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I've got a total of six plug ins and three themes and I could select all and update or click this update

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all button on all of my web sites all at once.

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It is a great timesaver if you're sure about compatibility issues and it's a very small update after

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I update.

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Of course I would go and check the Web sites to make sure everything's working right.

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So suppose I got a notification that a certain plug in was having a security issue and it was recommended

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that you update their plug in right away if I was using that plug in on more than one site which is

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pretty likely in my business.

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I would be able to check the box over here and just update that plug in on every one of my web sites

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using managed W.P. Orion.

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Now how does this work if I'm logged in at the Wordpress dashboard at one of my web sites.

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Skateboard coach dot com if I go up here and look at the Web sites list instead of this grid list I

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could go over here and look at them in an unordered list here.

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The skateboard coach app is one of the Web sites that manage W.P. is managing for me.

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And now over here it does tell me that I have to plug ins ready to be updated so click the updates button

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here.

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Now how does manage WP Orion know that there are two plugins available for an update inside of my skateboard

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coach app.

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I've downloaded the free managed WP Werker plug in and activated it and connected it to my managed W.P.

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account.

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This is all free to start out with and all the services I'm outlining here are within their free version.

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So here it is the managed WP worker.

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I have it activated over here at Wordpress dark.

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I went over to the search under plug ins and I typed managed W.P..

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Here it is here.

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The managed WP worker plug in.

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They keep it updated and it's compatible with the latest version of wordpress.

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It is just a great plug in that lets manage WP go and log in as you and make changes on your behalf

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inside your Wordpress Web sites.

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If you're managing multiple Web sites in your business one of the great advantages is that you can log

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in to your WP admin or your Wordpress dashboard directly from the managed WP dashboard.

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That means you don't have to remember usernames and passwords or be forced to use the same username

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and password for all of your client site accounts that manage W.P..

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Well remember all those usernames and passwords for you if I just hit W.P. admin right here that will

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log me directly to the scape or coach dot com app and I'm logged in as the administrator.

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It's actually a more secure way to log into your website dashboard because you don't even have to visit

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the WP log in page and type in your username and password at all.

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So let's take a look at managed W.P. in action very quickly.

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You can see that I have to plug in updates on my skateboard coach app website.

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It tells me that I'm using Word Press 4.6 which says there's no updates available for the WP or the

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word press corps and I do have three theme updates.

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Now if I click these two I just select them there and click Update.

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This is my progress bar up here and it should very quickly update those plugins for me.

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Now that it's finished I can see it gives me that nice message.

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All the plug ins are up to date.

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Let's go over to the Wordpress dashboard at scape or coach dot com and just refresh the page and take

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a look at what it tells us like that the plugins are all updated There's no message here.

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The only thing I have are three themes that I need to update.

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Great.

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These three themes again as in the last video instead of just go into them individually and deleting

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each theme because I'm not using these I'll go ahead and delete them out of my wordpress installation.

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I can do that a lot faster by going to manage W.P. dashboard and going over to the themes page here.

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Now if I check each of these themes that allow me to update it right here but if I go back to the themes

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page for this Web site that I'm managing I can see that I have one active theme and three inactive themes.

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Here's where I want to I can just check each of these themes and go down and delete all of them.

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W.P. manage O'Brien will take care of that for me in one big group.

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And it just makes it faster and easier.

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Back in the Wordpress dashboard for the skate board coach app you can see I've updated the Wordpress

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updates page and no more themes are there to update.

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I could just go to appearance and themes and let's see what themes I have just the one current activated

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theme is in my wordpress installation now that everything's updated on that Web site.

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Let's just go through a few more things that manage WPA O'Bryan can do it can manage your users of which

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the managed W.P. worker plug in is one and you can manage security where you can run a security check

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on each of your web sites whenever you want.

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You can also manage performance and speed using their performance.

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Check right here these four and the fifth the backups feature are all part of their premium add ons.

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It has different pricing and it's really very inexpensive.

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You go to their Web site and click the pricing page.

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All the things that are right here are free forever on an unlimited number of Web sites.

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But if you go down here if you do per Web site or bundle them into over 25 Web sites you can see that

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all these features are pretty affordable.

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The managed W.P. service can do periodic backups and store them offsite separate from your server backups.

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It can monitor up time and send you a text message or an email if one of your sites goes down.

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It can monitor SBO provide a client report so that weekly or monthly You can give a traffic and security

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and speed and performance report to your client as a part of your website care and maintenance plan

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which will be going over and future videos and you can white label the service and the client reports.

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So they don't know that you're using this service and it looks like it's just coming from your business.

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Another couple of tools are down here.

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Your own system info for each of your web sites at the server maintenance mode where if you're doing

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some maintenance on the site behind the scenes and you want to hide that you can do it and take care

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of it with manage W.P. and the history of course of all your activity here and a way to roll back.

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But in each one is the code snippets area we've looked at different ways to do code snippets where if

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you need to add a piece of code to the functions dot ph P file you should use a child theme or a code

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snippets plugin so that you're not altering the theme itself but an interesting thing that you can do

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here is if you look at your web sites and then select each of the Web sites that you have you can add

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a code snippet to all of your web sites at the same time.

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This can be really useful for adding a personal message from your business.

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Right on the Wordpress dashboard for your client.

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It's a really powerful code snippets plug in.

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Plus if you do something wrong and it breaks the site for any reason you can always remove the code

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snippet here using your managed W.P. service.

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In this lesson I showed you what you can do to save time increase security and manage a group of web

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sites easily using a WordPress Web site management service.

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This can really make your business and your client relationships better by providing an easy to administer

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value added service for web site care and maintenance plans you can sell to clients.

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You'll learn how to create recurring revenue for your business this way later in the chapter in the

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next video we'll go over the levels of security provided by different types of web site hosting companies

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and how best to engage with them.

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I'll show you how to make sure you take advantage of all your hosting company provides and set your

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websites up to be as protected as possible from getting hacked or going down