By WP Remote has undergone a total reboot and is now officially out of beta. If you haven’t used it before, this is a webapp for managing, organizing, searching and tracking the versions and updates of multiple WordPress sites.
This handy web-based service gives you a dashboard displaying all of your WordPress sites with key information related to version, plugins and themes, and keeps your bits and pieces all up to date. WP Remote even allows you to backup your sites remotely, and enables automatic daily backups just in case something goes wrong while you slumber.
Oh, and WP Remote is totally free.
If you have used WP Remote before, there are several new changes to take note of in the official 1.0 release. Primarily, the developers redesigned the interface and describe it as “The app is now about 100x faster – that’s kind of an exaggeration, try 90x faster.” The new front end has been completely redesigned and rewritten to improve the user experience as well as the load time.
Next, the team at Human Made Limited added site backups to WP Remote. All backups are stored on Amazon S3 and they are providing this service for FREE (for now), though they have disclaimed that if the service gets too costly, they may have to start charging for this item.
Finally, WP Remote now supports remote theme upgrading, and tracks theme updates, which is incredibly cool and convenient.
If you manage any more than one WordPress site, WP Remote is a convenient and totally free way to keep track of your WordPress sites. There is no limit to the number of sites that you can add and keep track of.
“Add as many sites as you want, try to break it (if you do, let us know!) and tell your friends about it.”
A big thanks to the authors, @tomwillmo, @joe_hoyle and @matt_eu, from Human Made Limited, who have committed to keeping WP Remote cost-free.