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Manage Multiple WordPress Blogs with One Dashboard?

Posted by John Saddington on Jul 28, 2010

Sounds like a dream service, right?

I thought so too and I instantly checked ManageWP and their web service that advertises the ability to manage multiple WordPress blogs with one easy-to-use dashboard.

Here’s what I found…

Signing up with easy and painless. The system uses WordPress as it’s application core, so it’s very familiar.

I was able to easily add multiple blogs quickly, which was nice:

And within seconds I had a few of the 8BIT blogs registered and linked (you have to download and activate a plugin too though).

I quickly got to the management screen and was pleasantly surprised at the ease and simplicity of the UI:

Then I tried blogging  a post on one of the properties and that’s where we hit some bumps.

For starters (and this was the deal breaker for me) you are not able to upload images to the posts. I was very disappointed.

In addition, the rest of the posting functionality (like categories and tags) was not intuitive and easy to use.

Too bad. I was really hoping that this could have been a healthy solution that I’ve been looking for!

My guess is that with a little continued development that this could be a real ball-winner. I’d imagine that most serious users that need this type of functionality won’t find this useful since most owners of multiple blogs are power-users and need all the functionality that WordPress has natively.

Hope it continues to mature as a product!

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch. He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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10 Responses to “Manage Multiple WordPress Blogs with One Dashboard?”

  1. PhillipGibb
    Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 9:41 am

    yeah, deal breaker for me too. Unless you use it to upload draft posts as the ideas come, then pay more attention to images as you work out the details.

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  2. Andy Hoyland
    Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 11:27 am

    Hey there.

    Thanks for this information. A quick question though. And sorry if it is a silly one. But what is the difference between the service this offers and the service available through an install of WordPress MU or better still a network enabled version of WP 3?

    The ability to have super users and multiple blogs on one install is available with the latest version of WordPress and there is a super walk through on how to set it up on the WordPress codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

    Sorry if I’m missing something – and again – thanks for pointing to what does look like a useful service.

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    • John Saddington
      Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 9:31 am

      yeah, what if you have multiple blogs on multiple installs? that’s what we have.

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      • Andy Hoyland
        Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 10:55 am

        Oh – ok – I see the point…

        I guess if it’s all already set up to run on different installs then something like this is handy.

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  3. Bill Robbins
    Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 12:05 pm

    You might try this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-multi-network/ as it allows you to manage multiple sites with different domain names via the network feature of WordPress.

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    • Philip Cain
      Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 2:47 pm

      Ditto to the WP Multi Network plugin. It’s amazing and using core features of WordPress. Multiple blogs/sites on multiple networks and multiple domains, all one installation.

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  4. rjgrune
    Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 10:29 pm

    Have you ever tried MarsEdit from red-sweater.com? It’s the best blogging software i’ve seen and you can manage multiple blogs, create local drafts, and upload pics. It’s not a web app, but it works incredible.

    Reply
  5. Jon Brink
    Monday, August 9, 2010 at 3:40 am

    I read AV Guide’s opinion about this very thing. Couldn’t agree more with you and less with them.

    Reply

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