First let me say right from the start: I am not connected in any way with this plugin I am not an affiliate The plugin has a free version that does everything you need. I am writing this to any other members that have multiple Wordpress sites because of the time and energy this one plugin has saved. Currently I have been running 13 Wordpress sites from this one dashboard for three months without one problem. The plugin is called "InfiniteWP" and can be installed via your "Add Plugin" feature on wordpress. What it does: Allows you to access all your sites on multiple servers from one dashboard Schedule updates to ALL your plugins and themes with one click of the button, including new Wordpress updates Backup all your websites at once Upload new plugins and themes to multiple sites at once Add posts and pages to individual sites InfiniteWP will also email you when new updates are available. This one plugin has saved me hours and hours of work and allowed me to get a better view of all my sites. I do have one caution .... be sure to use strong password protection and keep you sites secure. Of course, having InfiniteWP helps you plug the biggest security hole which is ... forgetting to update your WP to the latest version
Betheverse's suggestion is looking fairly sound. I saw this in a client site I was fixing the other day https://managewp.com/ as well. Nigel
Hi ManageWP is a WP plugin that helps me manage multiple WordPress blogs from one dashboard. http://wordpress.org/plugins/worker/ greets
IWP seems to work pretty well, and it's free. Only been using it for a couple of days but seems to work fine. I did have one issue trying to back up a DB for one of my sites. Haven't really looked into it thought, could be an issue on my end.
Yeah there's a variety of plugins that help you with that. The word of caution however, is a major word of caution. You can imagine the disaster if someone cracks that one password... They can then mess up all your WP sites in one go... I prefer old school. Each site to itself.