Darrell McNish said,

Edwin,

I’ve been looking for a WP management alternative to the cPanel layout, and finally found a few that are promising. None of them have ALL the features I’m looking for, but when I found your site while doing my research, I thought I would comment on them and get your opinions.

First up was one you’ve mentioned before – FirePow. It’s now in version 2, has some updated features, including content auto posting, some plugins to manage SEO, linking structure, and limited auto promotion of the WP blogs it creates. Yes, it is a single interface for multiple installs and management of WP sites, but there are a LOT of things I would change about it.

BAD STUFF: Limited templates, and I can’t import my SemioLogic Pro as the base for the WP installs, the content selection is still somewhat limited, it cost’s $127 a month, and it’s hosted on the FirePow site, so if you leave their service, you loose the single interface aspect that I want so much to maintain.

GOOD STUFF: Comes with some decent traffic getting plugins, and has a somewhat easy way to load in new ones. Content management and future posts available.

There’s another interesting prospect – WPMangerDX . It also is a single interface install and manage script, but it is installed on your own hosting site, has singular interface control for the install, updating of WP, importing – selection – and activation of plugins and themes, multiple project control and multiple installs in one go….

There’s a companion script, sold seperately, called ArticleManagerDX that seems like it would be good addition on the content side. Features taken from the site:

* Login to one location and create as many article blog projects, upload articles, save them and have them posted automatically for you.

* Upload all the articles you want to post with pre-defined fields set ONE time and have that information put in for all the articles you upload without doing it yourself for each article.

* Enter your keyword and description preference for each blog project only once and have all your articles for that specific blog include the keyword and description tag each time the article is posted.

* Easily enter the time frame you want your articles to be published. Easily choose one or more categories you want your article to appeared on. Easily enter your article’s excerpt if your blog is setup to offer only summary posts.

Additionally, there are some plugins that are very favorable to sites I like to build – WPRobot comes to mind immediately, as it can pull content from Amazon, ClickBank, eBay, YouTube, article sites, Yahoo Answers, and has a translation module to exchange languages if you wish. Easy way to monetize your sites, AND get content for it in one go. Uses keywords to define the parameters it searches for in terms of affiliate products and content.

Then there’s the OnlyWire plugin – that posts your blogs to the bookmarking sites on autopilot, every time there’s a new post. You have to manually set up the BM accounts to begin with, but once done, it’s fairly easy to create BM backlinks.

Ideally, you would have one interface that would allow you to integrate ALL of these functions into your WP sites – so , you start a new project; give the software some keywords; affiliate ID’s for whatever products/services you’re selling; import the graphics, articles, and email addy for your autoresponder series or news letter; Check for/load the latest WP verison; Import and activate themes and plugins; set up the current and future posting of content allready in place; Add links to your Privacy, CopyRight, Contact Me, and Terms of Use pages; a few other things I can think of that I’d like to see too.

Guess I can’t really complain too much, I mean all of it is available thru multiple programs, plugins, and/or software packages – it would just be nice to integrate all of this into one simple interface.

Success !!

Darrell