WordPress management, for people responsible for many sites
Everything about running a portfolio rather than a site: when manual management stops working, how to choose tooling, and the workflow habits that prevent most incidents.
The fundamentals
If you read one thing, make it the first of these.
Managing multiple WordPress sites
Why manual management fails past five sites, the three approaches compared, and how to design the workflow.
Read the guideManage multiple sites
What centralised WordPress management does in practice, and what to expect from it.
Read moreWordPress maintenance
The full maintenance routine: what to do daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly.
Read the guideChoosing and changing tools
The decision is rarely about features. It is about what happens when something breaks.
Best WordPress management tools
Nine tools compared, including where each is genuinely the better choice.
Read the comparisonAll comparisons
Head to head pages, plus neutral comparisons we are not part of.
See comparisonsMigrating between tools
What transfers, what gets rebuilt, and how long a switch actually takes.
Read the guidesOperating a portfolio safely
Most incidents come from process rather than software.
Safe updates
Restore point, update, verification, rollback. The workflow that prevents most maintenance incidents.
See the featureBackups and restore
Why untested backups fail, and what restore testing changes.
Read moreFleet dashboard
Ranking work by consequence instead of scanning an alphabetical list every morning.
Read moreThe signal that your approach has stopped working
In a working setup, the marginal cost of an additional site falls as the portfolio grows. The process is the same, the automation is already built, and site forty-one costs less to onboard than site eleven did.
If each new site instead feels like a proportional increase in workload, the approach rather than the effort is the problem. That is the moment to change tooling or change workflow, and it usually arrives somewhere between five and fifteen sites.
The other reliable signal is deferral. When maintenance regularly slips because there is no time this week, the process has already failed; the incident just has not happened yet.
Run the portfolio, not each site
Risk-tiered update batching, verification after every change, and restore-tested backups across every site you look after.
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