When you have more than one WordPress website to manage, it can quickly become confusing and time consuming to manage updates, plugins, backups, logins, etc. everywhere. That’s why there are special external services that connect to their own pages and thus offer a central management platform for all projects.
However, since the functions and price models are VERY different, we would like to try to provide an overview here:
| Plugin | ManageWP | Jetpack | wpmudev | InfiniteWP | MainWP | WPRemote | CMSCommander |
| Preis: | Basic functions free for unlimited projects individual Pro features for 1-2€ per month per feature per site | Basic functions free individual Pro features for €8 per month per feature per site Packages for 18€ or 53€ | $19 p.m. for a page $39 p.m. for 10 pages $99 per month for unlimited pages | Basic function Free Pro: $147 p.a. for 20 pages (1.2€ per page per month) $447 p.a. for unlimited pages | Basic function Free €16 p.m. for unlimited pages €336 unlimited one time | Basic function Free Pros: $49-149 p.m. for 20 pages from $99 p.m. for 100 pages | from 8$ p.m. for 5 pages gradually up to $75 p.m. for 200 sites |
| Manage: | Free: Themes, Plugins, Comments | no | Themes, Plugins, | Themes, Plugins,, Users, Posts, Comments | Free: Themes, Plugins, Posts, User Pro: Settings | Free: Themes, Plugins, Users | Bulk Posting, Users, Posts, Comments |
| Backups: | Free: incremental, monthly in Cloud Pro: hourly & ondemand | Pro: daily or realtime (surcharge) | automatically, incrementally in cloud or remotely | Free: manuell Pro: automatically and remotely | via various 3party plugins | Pro: automatic Incremental Cloud Backups | automatic backups (on own server or own cloud) |
| Migration | Free: Website-Boilerplate Pro: clone, staging, migrate, depeloy, restore | no | backup-restore | Pro: Install, Migrate & Staging | Pro: Website-Boilerplate, Clone, Staging | Pro: Staging, Migration, Merge to live | Clone, copy settings, Website-Boilerplate |
| Monitor: | Free: manuell Performance check; Google Analytics integration Pro: uptime every Moinute & automatic performance Checks; SEO-Rakings; broken links | Free: uptime | every minute Uptime & Speed | Pro: uptime, Broken Links | Free: Advanced Uptime Monitor | Free: manuell Performance Checks Pro: Uptime | Uptime & Pagespeed Monitoring |
| Updates: | Free: manuell Pro: automatically with auto-rollback in case of problems | Free: auto-updates | automatic (with screenshot comparison) | Free: manuell Updates | Free: auto Updates | Free: manuell Updates | 1-Click Updates |
| Security: | Free: manual checks for errors, malware, old plugins, security settings Pro: automatic checks NO troubleshooting! | Free: BruteForce Pro: daily scans (realtime with surcharge) | (via defender) one-click security tweaks, 2-factor passwords, IP lockout devices, and login masking automated security scans, vulnerability reports WAF bei hosted sites | Pro: manuell Maleware-Scan | Free: manuell Checks via Sucuri | from Plus: Malware Scan & Removal, Firewall, Hardening (by MalCare) | 2FA, Maleware-Scaner |
| Customers: | Free: Manuell Reports, Access for team and customers Pro: automatic whitelable reports | no | whitelable Reports | whitelable Reports Enterprice: Team-Logins | Free: watermarks Pro: Team-Logins, Witelable Reports | whitelabe plugin | |
| Other | Free: Code snippets; 2FA, 1click-Login, Local-Environment-Sync | Free: CDN Pro:Anti-Spam | including access to 11 Pro Plugins (features mentioned above partly shown above) | Code Snippets | selfehosted: a separate WP instance serves as a dashboard Pro: BulkArtikels | Multisite-Support | Auto-Publishing; Article-Spinner, Affiliate Network Integrations, Insert Ads |