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2:57 am
April 27, 2011
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Hi,
Am i to understand that currently ManageWP is a free service but at some point in the future this will change and there will be a monthly charge for using ManageWP?. I'm currently using wordpress direct but i find i don't use it enough to warrant paying a monthly fee for the service. If ManageWP is currently a free service and will remain that way then i will be using ManageWP in the coming future.
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Cyberking.
7:48 am
April 29, 2010
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Hi Cyberking
The service will not remain free but the cost will be dictated by the market and what our users find appropriate – that's why we have a pricing survey that you can participate in.
I am not sure if the two services are comparable in features but I can certainly say that we are going to be more affordable.
4:39 pm
April 1, 2011
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I don't think the two services are comparable– they have different functions.
I don't have a problem paying for the service– it's a valuable one to me. But I don't run monetized blogs, I manage websites for non-profits using WP as a CMS. The profit-margin there is very thin, as you might imagine, so the fees for MWP need to be at a level I can reasonably pass on to my clients.
I do hope MWP will have some level of free service so folks can check out what a great tool it is!
7:36 pm
April 20, 2011
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I have been working on and off for a few weeks to get all of my blogs moved over to ManageWP, and I now have about 60 here and probably 40 more to go. I love the tool, but I would like to know the pricing soon.
I used WPDirect for 2 years, and it was relatively expensive and does not do a lot of things that ManageWP does. Most other functions in WPD are easily purchased by getting a dev or unlimited license of a few plugins. The one nice thing that WPD had was the ability to create a new WP installation in about 2 minutes, with some initial auto generated content. It was great for when I would buy a domain and wanted to throw something up quickly to let it begin aging.
But I have had many of my wp sites hacked recently so I was looking for an easy way to keep WP and plugins updates, and found ManageWP and it is AMAZING for that. I also love it for the ability to push a plugin to every blog. For example, some of my sites did not have any spam control turned on so they had many 1000's of pending comments. With ManageWP I was able to quickly install "Delete Pending Comments" plugin on 60 blogs, and within the one screen I could go through each site and clear out all pending comments.
2:35 am
April 27, 2011
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admin said:
Hi Cyberking
The service will not remain free but the cost will be dictated by the market and what our users find appropriate – that's why we have a pricing survey that you can participate in.
I am not sure if the two services are comparable in features but I can certainly say that we are going to be more affordable.
Hi, How long before managewp becomes a paid service?, do you know yet what the pricing will be?, will this be a monthly or yearly price?. I currently have only 3 websites so it's not really hard to manage them by hand, currently i am subscribed to wordpress direct but i find i don't use it enough to warrant paying for the service and i think i will be cancelling the subscription soon.
Thanks,
Cyberking
2:41 am
April 27, 2011
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tpettit said:
I have been working on and off for a few weeks to get all of my blogs moved over to ManageWP, and I now have about 60 here and probably 40 more to go. I love the tool, but I would like to know the pricing soon.
I used WPDirect for 2 years, and it was relatively expensive and does not do a lot of things that ManageWP does. Most other functions in WPD are easily purchased by getting a dev or unlimited license of a few plugins. The one nice thing that WPD had was the ability to create a new WP installation in about 2 minutes, with some initial auto generated content. It was great for when I would buy a domain and wanted to throw something up quickly to let it begin aging.
But I have had many of my wp sites hacked recently so I was looking for an easy way to keep WP and plugins updates, and found ManageWP and it is AMAZING for that. I also love it for the ability to push a plugin to every blog. For example, some of my sites did not have any spam control turned on so they had many 1000's of pending comments. With ManageWP I was able to quickly install "Delete Pending Comments" plugin on 60 blogs, and within the one screen I could go through each site and clear out all pending comments.
Hi, I too have been using WPD but i only have 3 blogs and i find i don't use it enough to warrant it's continual use, i have been looking at managewp, i do like using the dash board in wp directly rather than trying to use WPD. What plugins would you recommend for any one no longer using WPD?.
Thanks,
Cyberking
3:25 am
April 20, 2011
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Well I dropped WPD a while back, and have been using several tools for content. WP RObot is really good, and I have also used BlogHatter which is nice because it will also load content in free blogger blogs. Utility poster is not automated, but good for creating news summary and commentary posts. And more recently I am using WPTurbo – it is not quite as easy as WPD, but has 21 content sources. And WPTurbo allows you to sell sites with their plugin, and that was a problem with WPD because if you sold a site with WPD plugins the buyer needed to sign up for WPD.
7:53 am
April 29, 2010
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Hi guys
ManageWP will remain free for up to 3 blogs so do not worry about it.
Otherwise it is most likely it will cost between $0.5 – $1 per blog monthly for the basic service and you will be able to purchase additional packs that you need.
3:06 pm
April 20, 2011
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Thanks for the info, Vladimir. A couple of thoughts from me on that pricing.
I would think the free package should go a little higher in order to be useful for people. Using ManageWP for 3 blogs is not particularly useful for anything other than demo purposes. I think you need to be at 5 blogs before you would even look for a tool like this. Also, with the current functionality, I would easily spend $50 a month for 100 blogs, but if it gets up to $1 a blog or $100 for 100 blogs, then you are in the price range of WPD and FirePow, which offer some levels of similar blog management (granted, not as good a ManageWP), but also include the auto-content functionality.
I offer those thoughts as both a user and an affiliate who plans to promote ManageWP to my list as soon as you get the paid version and an affiliate program up (you will have an affiliate program, won't you?).
And thanks for a great tool! This is the first time I have been even close to keeping my blogs and plug-ins up-to-date.
Tom
8:06 am
April 29, 2010
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Hi Tom
Thanks for the feedback. Actually the price for 100 blogs is likely to be less than $50/month as the price per blog will go down with number of blogs managed and we will offer a yearly payment which will involve further 2 months free.
8:57 pm
May 14, 2011
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I cant believe i just found this website. Best…Tool…Ever….. And FREE(for now anyway)? Damn. I would definitely pay for this service.
IMO big discounts on over 100 blogs.
$1 per blog up to 10, .75 up to 30, ect ect.
or some structure like that. Would be awesome. However, i would rather have a client side script.
6:17 pm
April 28, 2011
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Re Free or paid service – My 2cents. I would be unable to afford the service ar $0.50per site and certainly not at $1 per site. I like it very much, but with 70 sites and only breaking even financially, I would be forced to quit if I had to pay much more than $20 per month.
Lionmom
6:17 pm
April 28, 2011
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Re Free or paid service – My 2cents. I would be unable to afford the service ar $0.50per site and certainly not at $1 per site. I like it very much, but with 70 sites and only breaking even financially, I would be forced to quit if I had to pay much more than $20 per month.
Lionmom
10:19 pm
April 27, 2011
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tpettit said:
Well I dropped WPD a while back, and have been using several tools for content. WP RObot is really good, and I have also used BlogHatter which is nice because it will also load content in free blogger blogs. Utility poster is not automated, but good for creating news summary and commentary posts. And more recently I am using WPTurbo – it is not quite as easy as WPD, but has 21 content sources. And WPTurbo allows you to sell sites with their plugin, and that was a problem with WPD because if you sold a site with WPD plugins the buyer needed to sign up for WPD.
Thanks for the info,
Cyberking
3:21 pm
May 17, 2011
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Several of my friends & family have multiple sites. One friend in particular has (40) sites. What a proud moment I had when I shared "ManageWP" with him.
4:05 pm
January 9, 2011
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For current Users you may want to at least consider a break to some degree as in and perhaps a 1 time fee for unlimited blogs or maybe 500 blogs as a Lifetime Access.
That would be a great show of support back to the original user base for testing and feedback to help make this utility tool and work in progress a Go-To Management Tool for WP.
4:46 pm
March 29, 2011
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Thats kinda what I'm wondering, other than being a statistic, I've got to admit, I've got no real motivation to bring up issues if it means I'm going to be "locked out" in the future.
I'm all for running it myself, but it's priced to keep people from doing exactly that, as they don't want others to setup competing services I'm sure. All this just drives me to further unscrew the "WordPress Network" voodoo even more.
I hate subscriptions, I hate being $10-dollar-a-month'ed to death.
While I'm aware of the complexities that this type of solution has to deal with, I'm not impressed when it seems that nearly every time I connect, I have to refresh the dashboard 2-3 times before all of the 8 sites listed don't show as red. Several times I've had to remove and add again, because it appears to get stuck on "you've not upgraded" the plugin.
I had no idea such 'services' existed, I was primarily interested in some solution that would allow me to have a single admin login and post on multiple sites on a site-by-site basis.
I found this, and yes- the dashboard view is handy, but I have had lackluster results with actually doing any updates. Other than the database overhead cleanup and purging of spam comments, the rest of it is eye candy to me. I'll login to the actual site to do any plugin updates as I've had many many more issues with aborted updates, and broken sites that I've had to rename the plugins directory to restart it, and then put them back one at a time to see which one got thrashed during an update.
For what I'm looking at, and if it actually worked. That is, I don't have to reload the dashboard to know the site is "connected", each time, I'm still in the $35/year area.
5:18 pm
May 17, 2011
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@tdiaz How many sites do you have? I can definitely say having the ability to setup all the plugins on a new site with one click has been extremely fast. While it is still in beta I don't expect 100%, but from what does work, I am impressed.
We need someone with a high overall site count (dozens to possibly the 100 cap) to pipe in and share their results??
5:35 pm
April 20, 2011
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I am up to about 60 blogs loaded in WPManage right now, and I am actually blown away at the speed. I have seen it do hundreds of plugin updates in about 30 seconds, and I don't believe I have ever had the problems such as false 'reds' or aborted updates that @tdiaz is mentioning. The few times a plugin update failed I was able to rerun it and it worked the second time. I do have one theme update that keeps saying an update is available when it really is not, so that is the only real bug I have seen other than a few quirky UI issues. I cant begin to say how much I enjoy knowing that all of my blogs are now running the latest version of WP and the latest versions of all plugins, plus knowing that I have now have regular backups. And when I found a new plugin I wanted to put on most of my blogs last week, it took me about 5 minutes.
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