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.
WP Remote is cool, but ManageWP is way more better than WP Remote.
Also security on WP Remote is questionable.
WP Remote require API, there are many ways third party users can steal that API key?
On ManageWP you can do all this stuff plus more all safe and sound :D
I’m just comparing stuff here…
Let’s see what future brings to us …
Hi Joe,
WP Remote and ManageWP are fairly similar in how they work under the hood, however the way we manage the access to your site is actually more secure than ManageWP as we never ask for your WordPress user or password. We generate a unique, encrypted API key for use with your sites, even if somebody did get access to your API key (Say if you wrote it down somewhere and they found it) it would be useless without them also having access to your wpremote.com account as the API keys are unique per account (they couldn’t use your key to access your site from another account).
Even if somebody did get access to your wpremote.com account (say you wrote the username and password down) all that user could do are the things that wpremote.com can do which is update plugins and themes, we don’t store or have access to your actual WordPress username and password so there is no way they could ever get into your actual WordPress site and change / delete things.
Feel free to email us at hello @ wpremote.com for more information
Hi Tom
This is Vladimir from ManageWP. Congratulations on your reboot of WP Remote.
I want to clarify few things for the readers here since you mentioned ManageWP and made few claims which are not accurate.
ManageWP and WP Remote are not at all similar in any way under the hood. ManageWP is designed from the ground up as a WordPress-oriented service — everything we do is running natively on WordPress, including our website, and also the entire ManageWP service. And that’s just the beginning – we have around 30 major features not found in WP Remote.
ManageWP takes security very seriously. We consider this the absolute highest priority for us and our customers, so to suggest otherwise is false in every possible aspect. It took us two years of development and trial and error to get to where we are now, and we have taken every precaution necessary to ensure that ManageWP is secure, even going far above and beyond what today’s standards are for security of your average Internet service.
Furthermore, we NEVER ask for a user’s WordPress credentials. We NEVER ask or store passwords for any WordPress site. Also, ManageWP uses several layers of protection for user’s sites including login restriction by IP, two factor authentication, active website security system, and OpenSSL encrypted protocol to provide secure communication between ManageWP and all customers’ WordPress sites.
I have not seen mention of these features within WP Remote. Therefore, it would be likely that any security conscious user could make the argument that ManageWP is far more secure than WP Remote.
So, again, I want to reiterate and clarify that ManageWP takes our customers’ security very seriously!
Hey Vladimir
Making inaccurate claims about manageWP certainly want my intention, sorry about that. I’m definitely not calling intP question your security or features, that was a mistake on my part.
WP Remote is actually completely built on WordPress as well although we don’t have the app in wp-admin.
In terms of features there is a lot that manageWP does which we don’t plan to add, mainly managing content etc.
I have the utmost respect for what you’ve built with manageWP it’s great to be working in a space with strong competition.
Again apologies for casting aspersions about your security. That wasn’t cool.
Hi Tom,
We appreciate your understanding.
We here at ManageWP simply want to make it known that we take security very seriously. We don’t play around in this regard, and we have put into action many measures to ensure that our customers are safe. We have had the pleasure of interacting with customers for nearly two years, so we have also had ample time and opportunity to refine our security procedures for our product.
We greet the expansion of the market and wish WP Remote well.
Ok. I tried WPRemote and ManageWP. But non of them show the updates available for core WordPress releases announced by WordPress.org. And WPRemote doesnt show many of my plugin updates available either.
This is awesome guys!
any comparison to managewp out there?
Thank you for this! It what I am looking for, with out all the extra’s that I don’t need with ManageWP at this time.
simply aweseome… i am going to use for my site…
Totally awesome!
WP Remote really should at least have a donation link on their page though. Not monetizing it is very cool & all, but there’s nothing wrong with getting people to pitch in if they can. =)
~ Corey
It is monetised in a round about way as it helps raise our profile as a WordPress development company which in turn brings us more work.
That’s obviously not our primary motivation for building and supporting it, but it is the reason we are able to make it available for free.
I don’t like any that i cannot install on my own server and read source code.
Well done. Looking forward to a plugin version that we can install on one of our own sites. :-)
So far, WP Remote seems about as functional/useful as ManageWP (without the cost).
I tried this out & it worked great….. at first.
I checked back yesterday and found that there were already problems with the backup functions. Daily backups had been disbled with a ‘Coming Soon’ notice by the checkbox now visible. Further, manual backups quit working.
I deleted the domain I used to try their services out. I intended on deleting my account there, but there appears to be no way of doing this.
I’m disappointed, but I can’t say I’m all that surprised.
~ Corey
Truly sorry that WP Remote didn’t live up to your expectations, honestly the coverage and subsequent rush of signups took us by surprise, we’ve had some issues with automatic backups which is why we disabled it until we can get those fixed.
Your right that we need a way for users to delete their account. It’s on high on our list.
Thanks for trying the service out and pushing us to make it better.
I’m currently using ‘Online Backup for WordPress’ which is free, but has a maximum on how much it will handle, per blog. If I change to WP Remote will it backup everything I would need backed up, including images in posts, plugins etc?
Hi Tom
The manual backups were failing yesterday too (but they showed as succeeding). FYI.
Thanks for the response though. I think you all are headed for greatness. Set backs happen. I know. ; )
~ Corey