How to manage multiple wordpress blogs

September 28th, 2010 § § permalink

Today, by chance, I’ve discovered one of the greatest resources on WordPress that I’ve seen this year. I’m talking about Vladimir Prelovac, a croatian wordpress developer (and at first look a pretty darn good SEO guy). One of his biggest projects is ManageWp.com. What can you expect to find here:

  • add multiple (self hosted) wordpress instalations
  • create groups of blogs
  • quickly post articles / pages in one or more added blogs
  • quickly upgrade plugins / installations

For more details you can check this post.

Usage ideea:

If you are a freelance developer that has a focus on wordpress (or even if you are a web agency), create a sample wordpress install on your server and add all the plugins that you regularly use. Once you’ve done that, add the newly created blog to ManageWP.com. Each time you will need to create a new blog, just use the cloning feature and you are good to go. Now, 1-2 hrs of working have been reduced to a few simple clicks.

TIP 1: If you create themed wordpress installs (presentation, blog, CMS, ecommerce) make as many installs as you need

TIP 2: Before cloning make sure that all plugins and WPs are at their latest version

P.S. If you are worried giving to a third party your wordpress credentials, Vladimir is preparing a self hosted version of the plugin

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WordPress Plugin: Alphabetic tag index

October 17th, 2009 § § permalink

WordPress › Multi-column Tag Map « WordPress Plugins

Multi-column Tag Map display a columnized, alphabetical and expandable listing of all tags used in your site. This makes it easier for visitors to quickly search for topics that might intrest them.

This is a plugin that I’ve searched for almost 2 years. Before this plugin, I have used static pages to list tags alphabetically but this was to hard to maintain (on an instance where you have more then 900 tags). Mostly is for WordPress CMS cases because it targets those users familiar with a certain niche and taxonomies within it, making it easy to locate a certain tag.

Use cases:

  • Music blogs where tags are bands.
  • Blogs about celebrities

In a few days I’ll post a link to a live demo

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