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- Wordpress Cloner Plugin To Manage Multiple Blogs | 1 Comment
“CTRL+C for your Wordpress Blog” - I love that tagline!If you have multiple Wordpress blogs, you’d probably know by now that managing all of them at a time can be a total pain in the ass.
The headache comes when you need to install a new theme or plugin to all your blogs. It becomes even harder if those themes or plugins need to be modified or adjusted in a certain way.
WP Cloner (not to be confused with “Wordpress Cloner” by Mike Filsaime) is software from Anthony Ellis that allows you to manage multiple Wordpress blogs by “cloning” one blog’s setting to an unlimited amount of other blogs.
Anthony Ellis is also responsible for several innovative Wordpress hacks and plugins, including Auto Social Poster that allows you to submit links to multiple social bookmarking sites automatically.
WP Cloner is a Wordpress plugin, and installing it is as easy as any other Wordpress plugin. It’s obviously a labor of love, and I encountered no weird error message throughout my process of using it.
What you need to do is:
- Install WP Cloner on the source blog
- Enter the admin login and password for all your other blogs
- Select what you want to copy, and click on “Start”
- The cloning report will be emailed to you
- Repeat again as much as necessary!
You can choose to copy:
- Your plugins and it’s settings / data
- Your Wordpress themes
- Your permalinks structure & general settings
- Any static pages on your site, for example you “Contact Us” page
- Your categories, posts and comments
- Your blogroll and links
- Your admin username / data
WARNING: If you’ve previously modified your Wordpress themes for individual blogs, make sure you back it all up as you may overwrite them when using the Wp Cloner plugin.
There are a few other tools in the market to manage multiple Wordpress blog, but these require you to upload / manage multiple sites via an admin interface. In fact Anthony Ellis has a tool called Mass Account Manager that you can also use to maintain multiple Cpanels and mass upload files to your server.
WP Cloner is $127 and comes with an unlimited blog license. This means that you can install the plugin on as many blogs as you own without having to purchase additional licenses.
It’s extremely useful for anyone with a small to medium sized blog network, but if you have just a few Wordpress blogs this may not be absolutely vital for you.
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- Get More Links to Your Blog With ReviewBack.com | Leave a Comment
The tagline says it all: You blog me… I blog you… we create buzz.
Basically, this site automates what some bloggers have been doing for quite some time now - reciprocal reviews. I’ve done a similar campaign with my Internet business blog, where I invite other bloggers to review my blog, in return for a review “back”.
According to Nick Mazza and Kyle Johnson the co-founders of the site:
Conceived in May 2007, reviewback aims to be the world’s first, free review exchange marketplace. We provide tools to quickly add your site to our network and instantly begin communicating with other bloggers and writers in your same niche and target audience. There is no limit to how many reviews you can receive: as long as you are willing to write for others, they will write for you. Our hope is to provide not only an effective way of promoting content and building links, but also of receiving honest criticism and comments from fellow writers so that you can continue to improve and develop your site/product.
However, for each review you do, you must disclose that it’s part of an exchange network.
I’ve created my account and added a couple of blogs. However, as far as exchanging reviews with other bloggers. it’s not as automated as I’d wish it to be.
For example, I need to manually initiate contact with individual blogs, and there are no clear instructions on how to request for a review. It would help if I can also create a sample review within the site that I can submit to other users along with my request. That ways, it makes it easier for both parties.
That being said, this tool is free anyway and it can be added to your blog marketing arsenal.
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