Managing & Maintaining Multiple WordPress Websites

Geoff Myers (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffmyers), digital marketing consultant/strategist and president of SimDex LLC (https://simdex.org/), will be presenting on managing and maintaining multiple WordPress websites.

This presentation will cover a variety of strategies, plugins, tools, best practices, and tutorials for bulk administering WordPress websites – especially useful if you are responsible for multiple clients' websites.

This presentation will not cover WordPress Multisite (http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network) (previously known as WPMU) in which multiple sites share a single WordPress installation.

Some of the specific subtopics, plugins, tools, and resources we'll talk about:

• Overview of ManageWP (https://managewp.com), InfiniteWP (https://infinitewp.com), MainWP (https://mainwp.com), and other comparable solutions

• Live Demonstration of both InfiniteWP and MainWP

• Brief Introduction to WP-CLI (https://wp-cli.org) (WordPress Command Line Interface)

• Automating Backups to Amazon S3 (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/), Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com) & Google Drive (https://drive.google.com/)

• Automating Updates to WordPress Core, Themes & Plugins

• Creating & Managing Posts, Pages & Users Across Multiple Sites

• Continuous Uptime & Performance Monitoring

• Implementing Security & Scheduled Malware Scanning

• And More!