Feature Highlights & Updates

You can now install our Alfred Workflow, and get quick easy access to all your sites within mySites.guru!

Wait! What is Alfred? Why should I use it?

Alfred is an award-winning app for macOS which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac.

Seriously, if you are using a Mac Computer you should be using Alfred.

I have mine mapped to CMD+SPACE and just by hitting that keyboard combination I get instant access to so many features

Check out the Mac app – for FREE – at https://www.alfredapp.com

What is a Alfred Workflow?

A workflow can be thought of as a plugin or extension. It adds additional functionality to Alfred.

You need the Alfred PowerPack to use workflows which is £34 (or £59 lifetime) but its still totally worth it, for the productivity you will gain. Its also very addictive to create your own workflows and power up your productivity to new levels – how do you think I work so fast? haha.

How to integrate mySites.guru with Alfred

Simple.

1. Once you have Alfred and the Powerpack enabled, just download our Workflow
2. press your Alfred shortcut (Mine is CMD+SPACE) and then type “my” (without the quotes) then a space
3. Instantly you will see a list of menu items you can choose
4. Select an item and hit enter and your browser will load that page!

Full Integration with YOUR account.

Furthermore, you can enable public pages in your mySites.guru account, to obtain a token.

A token is just a string like smk4md33zf223efmg6y3bgbbo7mmeu63 (demo token, not real!)

You do that on the Public Site Screenshots page https://manage.mysites.guru/en/sites/screenshots

This token can then be configured in the workflow (Edit the workflow in Alfred, and paste the token in the place of the placeholder ENTER_TOKEN_HERE in the script), and will give you access to MORE features, such as listing all your sites in the Alfred search, and allowing you to jump direct to the Manage Site page for a site, making getting to the right place as simple as the following keystrokes (for a site called mySites.guru)

CMD+SPACE 
my 
SPACE 
mys 
ENTER

that’s all I type to get to the Manage Site page for mySites.guru site in my mySites.guru account ha! The “mys” filters the site list.

Like it or not, agree or not, Joomla 3 series is now end of life, and in August 2023 will become end of support – this means that up until that date the Joomla Project “may” release a new version (Joomla 3.10.12) if a security issue is discovered of such magnitude that they believe it would be wise to update the world. It rarely happens.

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There are a set of nifty HTTP Headers that you can emit from your site on every response which will harden your site against spoofing, XSS and more

Here at mySites.guru, we have just launched 8 new checks in the snapshot that is taken of your sites over twice a day!

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mySites.guru is not just a suite of tools for managing multiple WordPress sites, its used by over [TOTALSITES] Joomla and WordPress sites – its also a great alerting tool that will let you know when things are happening (good? bad?) on your site!

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mySites.guru No longer provides UptimeRobot.com Status pages as we no longer integrate the UptimeRobot.com service into the mySites.guru service

Instead we designed, developed and run our own uptime monitoring service as part of the complete Ultimate Toolset at mySites.guru

The main reason we stopped integrating with UptimeRobot.com is their tried to extort obscene amounts of money from us, and then changed their terms and conditions to outlaw what we were doing perfectly legally until they were bought out by the outlaws…

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of team management features in mySites.guru. You can now add (unlimited, of course) additional team members to your account, assigning them their own permissions, sites and settings.

You can use this, to give your digital agency staff members access to your full list of Joomla and WordPress sites in your single dashboard, or you can limit their access to managing a few Joomla sites in one place, or just WordPress sites – it’s up to you!

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That’s right, you can now manage all your users, in all your sites, from a single page – You can change their email address, change their password, assign different roles/permissions and much more!

mySites.guru is an award winning service that lets you manage UNLIMITED Joomla, WordPress and other PHP based websites for a single set fee of just GBP19.99 per month – we are often adding new features, some small, some larger.

The idea behind Universal User Management

Scenario One:

We get it. You are busy running your digital agency, and the customer phones you, disturbing your day, and says they cannot login, they have forgotten their password.

Before using mySites.guru you would have to go to their website, remember your own credentials, login, find their user account and reset their password, and then tell them what you changed it to.

Now with mySites.guru Universal User Management you can

• Go to https://manage.mysites.guru/en/universal_user_management/ (Of course you are already logged into mySites.guru and you can find this link in the left menu (or just hit shift twice on the keyboard!)
• search for their name, or email address
• Click edit next to their user account
• change their password
• click save – DONE

STEP ONE – Search

STEP TWO – Select one or more user objects found from your 1000s of sites OR click the edit button to edit one user specifically

Scenario Two:

You have a member of your digital agency staff leave – maybe on bad terms – and you want to search all your customers sites to see which sites they have access to – now you can do that, you can search for their name or email address – and get back a list of sites that they have user accounts on.

You can then block that user, or for now just set a new password for them – that works too.

Scenario Three:

You want to change the name of a user who has recently got married, they want their new surname on all their accounts – yup that’s possible across 100s of sites in one go!

Scenario Four:

You want to change the permissions/role of a user – across all sites

Scenario Five:

You just want the ability to search all users on all sites for a specific hackers account, or a specific name or email domain name? – yup you can do that too!

Another Scenario?

I can’t list them all – but our beta users have found this feature to be rock solid and they love it – but this is only the start, we wanted to release this early so that you could use it, while we invest more time in the upcoming enhancements

What’s coming soon?

• The ability to block a user (WordPress has no concept of blocking a user, so we need to roll our own!)
• The ability to remove Two Factor Authentication/Multi-Factor Authentication from a Joomla User
• Retrieval of Two Factor Authentication/Multi-Factor Authentication backup codes from a Joomla User so that you can provide your customer with a one-time-only login so they can reenable 2fa/Mfa.
• Ability to login as ANY user on ANY SITE – (You can already do this with mySites.guru AutoLogin on by selecting the user on the settings tab!)
• And much more… If you have a use case then let me know!

One of the founding principles of mySites.guru is that we offer an unlimited service for unlimited sites in your account at one set price per month (or year)

Once you have created your account at mySites.guru, you can then add your first site!

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Finally, after over a decade of providing our Award Winning Service, we are pleased to announce that we now manage 70,000 active WordPress, Joomla and Generic PHP sites with mySites.guru

*Note: There have been over 100,000 sites connected to mySites.guru over the years, but customers come and go without any long term contracts, the 70,000 figure is the actual number of actively connected websites in our database today!

mySites.guru has been going for over a decade, but the increase in sites being added has started to increase recently – as we add more and more features, and yet have kept the same low subscription prices since 2012 !

Don’t take our word for it – we know we are great!

Please, don’t take our word for how great our service is, ask any of our subscribers – many of which are on twitter and have given us praise from their own accounts, so you can verify their authenticity – we dont have old, fake review statements on our site – no hot air here, just loyal customers, in public, telling it how it is on their own tweet timelines. We collate those on the https://mysites.guru/reviews/ page but you can click each to authenticate their authenticity.

Why use other “WordPress Only” services?

We know there are LOTS of “Manage Multiple Sites” services – we are not alone, but there are very few where you can manage Joomla, WordPress and literally any PHP based webspace all in the same control panel, with the same full features including best practice recommendations, security reviews, hacked files checker, performance metrics, uptime monitoring, Auditing of the complete webspace, file by file, line by line, and much more… like complete integration with the multi-award winning Akeeba Backup, All-In-One-Backup, Blue Flame Backup… along with a powerful backup scheduler allowing you complete control over the schedule of your backups, unlimited times! We don’t need to feed our monkeys or waffle about with Hot Air, we simply provide award winning solutions to manage your sites.

Want to know what’s going on under the hood of your sites in REALTIME – we have that too!

And what about REALLY old versions? Got a Joomla 1.5.26 site? NO PROBLEM for mySites.guru – we are compatible all the way to Joomla 1.5.0!

Moving from Joomla to WordPress?

That’s cool – we provide services for BOTH CMS’s – just remove your Joomla Site, and add your WordPress site – NO EXTRA CHARGE with our fully inclusive service, we don’t charge per site, your subscription is for UNLIMITED sites. There has been no price increases since we launched in 2012!

Our simple pricing is:

Not convinced? Use our service for FREE for a whole MONTH!

That’s right – we are so convinced that you cannot live without our service that we will give you a whole first month for free!

Just sign up for a subscription and cancel before the end of your month and you will be charged absolutely nothing!

Find out how to get mySites.guru for free at https://mysites.guru/blog/how-to-get-mysites-guru-for-free-for-a-whole-month/

Need Extra Help? Or support for your sites connected to mySites.guru ? Sort use a ticket system or first line support!

Here at mySites.guru, you get direct line of contact to Phil Taylor – even use his personal email if you like at phil@phil-taylor.com – Phil is one of the longest running contributors to Joomla, since the mambo core development team days, and in 2020 in the top two code contributors to Joomla 4.

When you have a problem with your site, or need support for mySites.guru features there are no queues, no ticket systems – you get full and direct access to the developer who wrote the service, who knows each line of code of the service intimately. You get fixes fast.

Is your site hacked? No problem – I can fix that too for a SET fee! – no per hour quotes and estimates needed!

See the full details at https://fix.mySites.guru/

That’s right we finally added the 69,000th website to the mySites.guru service, allowing customer to manage their security, best practice, backups and audits all in one place. Joomla or WordPress or ANY PHP based website!

It was only a few months ago that we were celebrating 68,000 sites, but yet another 1000 sites have been added.

At the time of writing the live counter on the home page of mySites.guru, which reads in realtime the number of sites from our service, is at 69,171 ! 🎉

mySites.guru has been going for over a decade, but the increase in sites being added has started to increase recently – as we add more and more features, and yet have kept the same low subscription prices since 2012 !

Don’t take our word for it – we know we are great!

Please, don’t take our word for how great our service is, ask any of our subscribers – many of which are on twitter and have given us praise from their own accounts, so you can verify their authenticity – we dont have old, fake review statements on our site – no hot air here, just loyal customers, in public, telling it how it is on their own tweet timelines. We collate those on the https://mysites.guru/reviews/ page but you can click each to authenticate their authenticity.

Why use other “WordPress Only” services?

We know there are LOTS of “Manage Multiple Sites” services – we are not alone, but there are very few where you can manage Joomla, WordPress and literally any PHP based webspace all in the same control panel, with the same full features including best practice recommendations, security reviews, hacked files checker, performance metrics, uptime monitoring, Auditing of the complete webspace, file by file, line by line, and much more… like complete integration with the multi-award winning Akeeba Backup, All-In-One-Backup, Blue Flame Backup… along with a powerful backup scheduler allowing you complete control over the schedule of your backups, unlimited times!

Want to know what’s going on under the hood of your sites in REALTIME – we have that too!

And what about REALLY old versions? Got a Joomla 1.5.26 site? NO PROBLEM for mySites.guru – we are compatible all the way to Joomla 1.5.0!

Not convinced? Use our service for FREE for a whole MONTH!

That’s right – we are so convinced that you cannot live without our service that we will give you a whole first month for free!

Just sign up for a subscription and cancel before the end of your month and you will be charged absolutely nothing!

Find out how to get mySites.guru for free at https://mysites.guru/blog/how-to-get-mysites-guru-for-free-for-a-whole-month/

Need Extra Help? Or support for your sites connected to mySites.guru ? Sort use a ticket system or first line support!

Here at mySites.guru, you get direct line of contact to Phil Taylor – even use his personal email if you like at phil@phil-taylor.com – Phil is one of the longest running contributors to Joomla, since the mambo core development team days, and in 2020 in the top two code contributors to Joomla 4.

When you have a problem with your site, or need support for mySites.guru features there are no queues, no ticket systems – you get full and direct access to the developer who wrote the service, who knows each line of code of the service intimately. You get fixes fast.

Is your site hacked? No problem – I can fix that too for a SET fee! – no per hour quotes and estimates needed!

See the full details at https://fix.mySites.guru/

We recently announced How To Manage Multiple Joomla And WordPress Sites With Your Whole Team and we have been amazed how you are using Team Management for your mySites.guru accounts.

Today we gave Tim Davis, over at Basic Joomla Tutorials YouTube channel an exclusive reveal of our next major feature in our Teams Management.

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Following on from our release of the Whitelabeled reporting tool for Joomla and WordPress sites in mySites.guru, we are pleased to announce that we have just launched the Custom Report Designer for the Whitelabeled report tool.

This feature allows you to create UNLIMITED (unlimited, as is everything in mySites.guru) custom templates for your reports, which can then be assigned to your scheduled (and manually run) report configurations.

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Managing multiple WordPress sites doesn’t have to be overwhelming. With the right tools and strategies, you can streamline your workflow and ensure all your sites run smoothly. Here are some tips to help you manage multiple WordPress sites efficiently:

1. Use a Centralized Dashboard: Consider using a tool like ManageWP or InfiniteWP to manage all your WordPress sites from one centralized dashboard. This can save you time and make it easier to keep track of updates, backups, and security measures.
2. Set Up a Consistent Backup System: Implement a reliable backup system for all your WordPress sites. Whether you choose a plugin like UpdraftPlus or a cloud-based solution, regular backups are crucial to protect your sites in case of data loss or security breaches.
3. Keep Your Themes and Plugins Updated: Regularly update themes and plugins across all your WordPress sites to ensure they are secure and optimized for performance. Outdated themes and plugins can leave your sites vulnerable to security threats.
4. Monitor Site Performance: Use tools like Google Analytics or Jetpack to monitor the performance of your WordPress sites. Keep an eye on metrics like page load times, bounce rates, and traffic sources to identify areas for improvement.
5. Implement Strong Security Measures: Protect your WordPress sites from cyber threats by implementing strong security measures. This includes using secure passwords, enabling two-factor authentication, and installing security plugins like Wordfence or Sucuri.
6. Create a Content Calendar: Stay organized by creating a content calendar for all your WordPress sites. This can help you plan and schedule posts in advance, ensuring a consistent publishing schedule across all your sites.
7. Collaborate with Team Members: If you work with a team to manage your WordPress sites, consider using collaboration tools like Slack or Asana to communicate and delegate tasks efficiently. Clear communication is key to successful site management.
8. Regularly Audit Your Sites: Conduct regular audits of your WordPress sites to check for broken links, outdated content, and SEO issues. This can help you maintain the quality and relevance of your sites over time.

In conclusion, managing multiple WordPress sites requires a combination of organization, automation, and vigilance. By following these tips and staying proactive in your site management approach, you can ensure that all your WordPress sites thrive and succeed.

Just two short months ago we were celebrating 66,000 sites, today we are pleased to celebrate 67,000!

On average, our amazing subscribers are adding 500 new Joomla or WordPress sites a month to our service, that’s 6000 sites a year!

mySites.guru is a unique service to assist you in ensuring all your Joomla and WordPress sites are following the best practice, have backups, are monitored, and gives you a suite of unique tools to investigate under the hood of your site, checking each and every line of code in your webspace for hacks are much much more… 

Sign up today at https://manage.mysites.guru/

Thank you.

“I just want to say a personal thank you to all those that are subscribers and have been since we launched in 2012, you know who you are – your energy, suggestions and feature requests keep me on my toes daily striving to be the best service that we can possibly be.“

~Phil Taylor – Founder of mySites.guru

Introducing mySites.guru Sites Activity Reports!

Those that follow our journey know that we deploy new features almost daily.

Some features are small, some are bigger, but some have been repeatedly requested and are much much larger to develop. Reports is one of those.

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We used to provide UptimeRobot Integrated monitors for your sites, but now we are providing UNLIMITED FREE uptime monitors – powered by our own custom-written engine – to all mySites.guru subscribers and connected sites.

FREE Uptime Monitors from our OWN Robot Engine – for all mySites.guru subscribers and their connected sites – get alerted to downtime quickly!

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Ok, I screwed up. I admit it and Im sorry. We recently introduced Unlimited Backup Schedules per site and in doing so introduced a logic bug that caused us to remove the “Backup All Sites” in one go feature.

Lets talk about that – tl;dr; The Backup All Sites button has returned!!! 🙂

One of the unique qualities our service has always had, is the way we develop in a very agile way – responding to emerging hack threats, security incidents – and requests from our loyal customers! This means we can quickly and seamlessly implement and deploy new features at the drop of a hat’s notice. With Zero Downtime. Same Day, sometimes many times a day!

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