“Manage Multiple Blogs” and make life easier
Sep 13th, 2007 | By knup | Category: Wordpress
So i read about this sweet new plugin for Wordpress that allows you to Manage Multiple Blogs all from the same admin screen. Nice! I went out to the site and downloaded the plugin to give it a try. I must say I’m impressed. This went very smooth and it was super easy to add new blogs through the interface. From there you can write posts, manage posts, manage comments and manage categories. The creator seems very active and is going to have future releases with more functionality.
My biggest addition would be to add a dashboard that includes latest activity from ALL sites! I would love this. To be able to monitor incoming links and latest comments/posts across several blogs on one screen. Now that is power. For those of us that try to maintain several blogs across many different industry’s - this plugin is a MUST have and I want to extend my thanks to keith over at Techie Buzz!
You can check out the plugin here.
I’ve been waiitng for something like this a long time. But I’ve also been tossing around the idea of moving over to WordPress MU … Multiple User. It’s WordPress on steroids … you cna run any number of blogs off the single installation … standardize all the plugins, themes, etc. a blogging buddy with well over 100 blogs is moving to it, he’s really feeling it’s a great tool … anybody tried MU?
I’ve never tried it Dave but am intrigued. I’ll look into it a bit later! Let me know if you hear any feedback from your buddy!
Hi Knup, well I already got an answer … and it suprised me. The MU version has, so far as my freind can see, no stats package to track activity/performance on the “sub blogs”. It seems to be a great tool for managing a large number of blogs … it’s the software that runs wordpress.com as one example, and it is working great in my friend’s application … see it work at; www,liveinthephilippines.com …each of the “columnists’ in his online magazine are actually sei-independent wordpress blogs running in subdomains of the main site … but it seems there’s a great potential still for something to track performance, activity and ROI for individual blogs.
Anyway, this ha sbeen the second most valuable thig I’ve looked at today … the first was taking my little nephews out for shopping, lunch and playtime … now that I’m back I’m going to hook up some blogs with this plugin and see how it does. Thanks.
BTW, if you are not yet using the excellent WordPress Update manager from Techie Buzz, I highly recommend it.
Ahh… Thanks for the quick update Dave. You are a wealth of knowledge. This does not sound like it’s something I will use. But I might try it out to give it a fair shot though! Talk soon.