We’ve previously covered how to maintain WordPress, through backups, optimization, updates and using centralized WordPress Management Dashboards.

Today we’ll look at some of those WordPress Management Dashboards in more detail, to see how they help keep WordPress up to date.

What Is a Centralized WordPress Management Dashboard?

A centralized WordPress management dashboard allows you to manage several WordPress websites from a single, central interface. Instead of having to go to each WordPress website’s administration interface and update your themes and plugins, you can perform all of these operations, across all of your WordPress websites, from a single interface.

How Do Centralized Dashboards Communicate with My WordPress Website?

Almost all WordPress management dashboards require you to install a WordPress Plugin, and use an API key to securely read your WordPress theme and plugin information. This same mechanism is used to tell WordPress to update its themes and plugins.

All of the solutions we’ll be looking at today use this method for communication: WP Remote, iThemes Sync and ManageWP. There are others, but these are some of the more popular options.

WP Remote

WP Remote provides monitoring for an unlimited number of WordPress websites, for free.

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