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Feature Highlights & Updates

Here we often publish information about the mySites.guru features we love most

What did WP Mayor think of mySites.guru for WordPress?

mySites.guru Review by wp-mayor.com

Today, we are really excited to receive a review from the top rated WordPress blog WP Mayor !

Some time ago, we submitted the idea of a product review to WP Mayor, and gave them complete access to the whole toolset at mySites.guru for managing multiple WordPress sites for almost a month.

We gave them full permission to write whatever they wanted about us.

The reviewer was Kevin Wood, who has over 10 years of hands-on WordPress experience, Kevin excels in making complex WordPress topics more accessible.

Overall Kevin was impressed with mySites.guru and details why in his review.

The only change we asked for in this review was to correct the price currency conversion (mySites.guru is GBP19.99 per month, which is approx USD$28 for UNLIMITED sites!)

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Learn best practice for Joomla and WordPress sites

In this blog post we are going to highlight the awesome “Learn More” pages in the mySites.guru service – this covers both Joomla and WordPress best practice.

The mySites.guru Snapshot and Audit cover well over 100 checks, each comes with a “Learn More” page and a tool to further investigate the issue.

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Automatically upgrade 1000s of WordPress Plugins + Joomla!

Here on our blog we have already talked about how to setup automatic updates for any Joomla plugin, how to automatically remove fluff files after Joomla updates and we have talked about how to manage your extensions/plugins with mySites.guru, and lastly we talked about how to mass upgrade Joomla and WordPress, from one dashboard, within seconds – today we bring all these together.

Mass Upgrade Joomla and WordPress Sites from One Dashboard.

Using mySites.guru you can select all your out of date Joomla or WordPress and sites, literally with a single click of “select all” and then a click on “Start Upgrades For Selected Sites… ” and then go make a coffee!

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Get a quick Snapshot of your Joomla and WordPress sites with mySites.guru

In this article we are going to describe the amazing and unique snapshot that is performed by mySites.guru twice a day, or on demand on your sites. The snapshot currently has over 140 data points collected within seconds!

While its not a photo of your site, it is a quick overview of hundreds of the best practice and security checks implemented – or not – on your site.

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Integrate mySites.guru to Alfred Workflow on Mac

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.


Top 50 Joomla Extensions in 2024

People are always interested in what other people are using to build their Joomla site. We have the data, so while other sites might blog post about this with static information, we thought we would make this REAL TIME and accessible to all our mySites.guru subscribers, updated with data in real time pulling from our database of over 75,000+ sites

No Surprises by Akeeba Backup and Joomla Content Editor win hands down.

Login to your mySites.guru account (Subscribe today if you have not already) and then head on over to:

For those that are not customers, here is a sneak preview of the top 10 extensions for Joomla, at the end of November 2019.

Want to make sure your site is compatible with Joomla 5?

Check out the new mySites.guru Joomla 5 Technical Requirements Checker


The Joomla 3.10.999 Project

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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mySites.guru No longer provides UptimeRobot.com Status pages

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…


Web Server disk space monitoring

The mySites.guru snapshot gives advance warning and alerts when your disk space (not virtual quota) is nearing full. Some web hosts hide this information.

Yesterday, at the request of a few users, we reinstated the mySites.guru disk space alerting into your mySites.guru accounts.

We have always retrieved the values from your sites for years, following our last attempt to display these values in your account failed several years ago, and it seems again the back lash on this feature is intense.

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Manage Multiple Joomla And WordPress Sites With Your Whole Team

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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Introducing Universal User Management for Joomla and WordPress Sites

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

AND THATS IT! DONE!!!

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!

Manage Your Joomla 4 Sites with mySites.guru

Its been 9 years in development, but Joomla 4 will be released on 17th August 2021 🎉🎉

mySites.guru is fully compatible with Joomla 4.0.0 Stable, and is in fact fully compatible with all Joomla versions from Joomla 1.5.0 onwards – even if the Joomla site is hacked and compromised, our tools still work and give you award winning solutions to find issues, follow and learn best practice, backup and monitor your Joomla sites.

Notes for those with mySites.guru subscriptions:

mySites.guru never performs Joomla upgrades automatically. You have to manually login and request that mySites.guru performant an upgrade.

Due to issues when Joomla 3.10.0 was first released, which, after upgrading to Joomla 3.10.0, the Joomla site would then show a one-click-upgrade path to Joomla 4.0.0 by mistake in Joomla Admin – we went ahead and then made it IMPOSSIBLE to upgrade from Joomla 3.10.0 to Joomla 4.0.0 using mySites.guru – it simply cannot be done.

Joomla 3.10.0 to Joomla 4.0.0 was never an easy upgrade – it was always going to be a migration.

Now the Joomla project accept there were issues and have moved Joomla 4.0.0 to the NEXT update stream, so that Joomla 3.10.0 doesnt see it as an available upgrade unless you have manually selected the update stream.

https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Joomla_3.10_points_to_4.0_while_it_claims_to_be_on_the_Default_update_server
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/35214

It is never going to be possible in the future to use mySites.guru to upgrade from Joomla 3.10.0 to Joomla 4.0.0. This is also because we have decided our Joomla 4 and Joomla 3 connector plugins will be different to take advantage of the new minimum version of PHP (7.2.5) that Joomla 4 has.

In order to migrate your site to Joomla 4.0.0 you need to perform a mini-migration – this includes checking all templates, extensions, plugins and modules for compatibility – DO NOT RELY ON THE PRE UPDATE CHECKER – it will flat out lie to you, a known issue!

DO NOT perform a Joomla 4 mini-migration/upgrade on a live site. Ever.
This is something that needs preparation, planning and testing on a development copy of the site first.
BACKUP before and TEST YOUR BACKUPS.

To migrate a site already connected to mySites.guru:

— Uninstall the mySites.guru system plugin
— Delete the site from mySites.guru
— Perform the mini-migration to Joomla 4
— Use the Add Another Site process to generate the Joomla 4 specific plugin and install that to your live Joomla 4 site to reconnect to mySites.guru.

Edit: Joomla 5 is now here!

Check out the mySites.guru Joomla 5 Technical Requirements Check tool!


Add unlimited Joomla and WordPress sites to mySites.guru

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)

This post was written before the 2024 template refresh of the mySites.guru service – some screenshots do vary from the live service now – same features, different look and feel.

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

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The mySites.guru Audit Tools for WordPress and Joomla Sites

mySites.guru is a tool for managing multiple wordpress sites, or Joomla sites.

In this blog post I’m going to cover the basics of the security audit for Joomla and WordPress sites using the Ultimate Toolset found in mySites.guru.

The mySites.guru audit checks every line in every file in every folder for hacks and backdoors

Connect unlimited sites to the mySites.guru service, then you can run UNLIMITED audits of your UNLIMITED sites on demand, or schedule them to run daily, weekly or monthly.

Some other services claim to have an “audit” tool. Most of the time they mean they have implemented the Sucuri SiteCheck API, which only “scans” your site as a visiting browser would, it doesn’t check the files in your webspace, and doesn’t find anything that is hidden under the surface of your rendered webpages. Be warned. Not all “Audits” are in-depth and comprehensive!

Make sure you compare apples with apples. Not everyone claiming to be an “apple” is.

At the start of every audit we also run our snapshot tools, capturing over 100 quick checks of your site. Added to the audit that’s even more checks!

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mySites.guru is the new name for rebranded myJoomla.com

The mySites.guru logo

As our service now supports Joomla and WordPress CMS’s, its no longer appropriate to be called “myjoomla.com” and therefore we have changed the service name to mySites.guru.

For a limited time myJoomla.guru will be used to market to individual segments of the market specific to one of the platforms, but moving forward mySites.guru will be the new name, and home of our service.


mySites.guru surpasses 64,000 connected Joomla and WordPress Sites

[Edit: This is an old article, mySites.guru is now connected to well over 74,000 sites!]

We did it. Our multi-award winning solution for Joomla and WordPress sites has just added its 64,000 website to our service! 

Congratulations to John M. for being the one to add that site! 🎉

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/en/register/

I am incredibly humbled. 

The thing is, people love us because, despite our lack of marketing, shiny site, podcast, and lipstick – we have a rock solid product that out-performs expectations every day. 

Yeah any service can backupupdate and monitor a site. But not all services are created equal. Ours is invested into daily, new code deployed multiple times a day – every day. We react and respond to emerging threats, add new hack signatures and patterns daily, and our detection of Joomla and WordPress hacks in file is second to none. 

I work on this project full time. Its not a side hustle or investment for me – its my passion. 

~Phil Taylor.

There is always room to improve, and deploying multiple times a day, we improve things daily, grazing at the code, refining features, add value and give you more power each week to maintain your sites, and your customer sites with ease. 

64,000+ sites now trust mySites.guru. 

Thats incredible, but still, only just the beginning!

Thank you.

Phil.


Automatic Updates for all Joomla Extensions

That’s right. Joomla Auto Updates is a thing. Any Joomla Extension that has an update site, thus implements the Joomla API for Updates, can now be set to automatically update when there is an update available. WordPress has had this for years but now harnessing the power of the Ultimate Toolset at mySites.guru you can now automatically upgrade any Joomla extension or plugin!

Automatic plugin upgrades for Joomla at mySites.guru
Automatic plugin upgrades for Joomla at mySites.guru – No chickens allowed

Building on the foundation that has been running in mySites.guru for years, that has automatically upgraded over 3 million JCE Editor, Akeeba, AdminTools and RegularLabs extensions, you can now select ANY update site stream and mark it for auto updates.

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How to get mySites.guru for free – for a whole month!

We know with recessions and cost of living crisis in many countries, that times are hard, but here at mySites.guru we have never been busier!

mySites.guru is certainly not expensive for the service we provide (We have not increased our prices since 2012 when we first launched!), but we would still love you to see that for yourself, first hand!

Get mySites.guru totally free for a whole month

All these new features are for paying subscribers, and not available in the free trial, which is a single audit of a single site, we know that some of you are asking for a free period to test these features.

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How to Tag sites in mySites.guru

Tagging sites allows you to quickly and easily organize and control your sites in our service.

mySites.guru already organizes your collection of sites in some of the most commonly used groupings (i.e.. Upgrades & Updates, Your Webserver Hosts, No SSL Certificate, etc.) but we know that no two web geniuses think alike, so we created the ability for you to group the sites you manage in as many groupings as you wish!

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How to disable “Send Copy To Submitter” in Joomla to prevent spam

We have all been there. The customer calls and says people are telling him that his Joomla Site is spamming them, and on investigation the spammer has misused the `Send Copy To Submitter` feature of Joomla. Well now mySites.guru identifies this setting and alerts you if its not disabled.

One of the long standing core features of Joomla is the Contact Form.

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74000+ WordPress Sites, Joomla Sites, PHP Sites – All in one single dashboard – Secure!

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!

There are #NoChickens #NoMonkeys and #NoHotAir running our service. Promise!

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 checkerperformance metrics, uptime monitoringAuditing 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:

GBP 19.99 Per month

Unlimited sites

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/


69,000 WordPress, and Joomla Sites In One Place

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!

#NoChickensHere

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/

mySites.guru – is the dashboard that allows you to manage all these – WordPress, Joomla, PrestaShop, Magento – any PHP based webspace… all from one location!

#NoChickensHere


How to fix a hacked Joomla or WordPress site

So it happened. Your site was finally hacked. Dont panic.

BACKUP! (Dont Restore)!

Do it now. Backup your site. Even if its hacked. Backup right now. Done? ok.

Next, you will read some “Experts” talk about restoring your site from the last clean backup – this should only ever be done as a last ditch attempt!

how to fix a hacked joomla or wordpress site with mysites.guru

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Over 74,000 Joomla and WordPress Sites trust mySites.guru service

Just two months ago, we were here announcing that mySites.guru had surpassed 65,000 connected Joomla and WordPress sites.

Today we celebrate a new milestone in mySites.guru history! 75,000+ Sites!

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/

This is another period of incredible growth!

Yeah any service can backupupdate and monitor a site. But not all services are created equal.

Ours is invested into daily, new code deployed multiple times a day – every day. We react and respond to emerging threats, add new hack signatures and patterns daily, and our detection of Joomla and WordPress hacks in file is second to none due to my hands on approach to investigating every single hack personally.

We have been adding some amazing new features, some announced in our blog , but many not, the blog posts include:

On Christmas Day 2020 we revealed a brand new platform

The new platform is now Powered by PHP 8 – yes that’s right, bang up to date PHP version, and also running Symfony 5.2.1, bang up to date.

This means we can now power ahead in releasing new features at an incredible rate and be future proofed.

We also removed a lot of the technical debt that we had gained over the years, deleting over 500,000 lines of code, and deploying over 1million lines of code!

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

Tip: How to anonymize data before taking a screenshot of your mySites.guru account

We love that people want to share screenshots of our award-winning tool set for Joomla and WordPress sites, but doing so reveals live site names, or customer names, and we, and you, might not like those immortalized in images – so we have created a quick, easy, and fun way to anonymize data as its rendered on the screen in your mySites.guru account

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How To Manage Multiple WordPress Sites

In the dynamic world of web development and digital marketing, managing multiple WordPress sites efficiently is a challenge that many professionals face. As the number of websites under your care grows, so does the complexity of tasks like monitoring performance, ensuring security, and optimizing best practice.

manage multiple wordpress sites

Thankfully, mySites.guru emerges as a comprehensive solution designed to simplify the management of multiple WordPress sites. In this blog post, we’ll explore the features and benefits of mySites.guru and how it can streamline your workflow for greater success. And yes, this post is basically a SEO post – sorry about that!

The Challenge: Managing Multiple WordPress Sites

Managing a single WordPress site can be intricate, involving tasks such as content creation, plugin updates, and security monitoring. As your portfolio expands to include multiple WordPress websites, the intricacy of these responsibilities multiplies. Juggling various dashboards, dealing with diverse hosting environments, and keeping track of performance across sites can become overwhelming.

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End Of Life Supported Versions

Here at mySites.guru we know that in a perfect world we would all be running the very latest version of Joomla/WordPress, but its an imperfect world, and so we have to cater for old versions too.

Very. Old. Versions.

So, unlike other services that only support Joomla 3 and above, the mySites.guru service supports as way back as Joomla 1.5.0 !

mySites.guru has a tool to fix all Joomla 3 security issues with a single click – check it out at https://mysites.guru/blog/how-to-fix-joomla-3-security-issues-with-a-single-click/

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Unlimited Backup Schedules – powered by cron syntax

Using mySites.guru you can backup your site unlimited times, based on unlimited schedules, configured with powerful cron syntax

You can create UNLIMITED backup schedules in mySites.guru.

Each schedule is powered by a cron expression, giving you total control over the timing and period of your backups, and you can even set DIFFERENT Backup Profiles per schedule.

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Create Custom Client White Label Reports for your Joomla and WordPress sites

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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How to Manage Multiple WordPress Sites Like a Pro

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.


How to Install An Extension to Multiple Joomla Sites at Once

When you want to install an extension across multiple Joomla (or WordPress!) sites in one go, you can use the mySites.guru Mass Installer Tool

Mass plugin installer for Joomla and WordPress

Mass plugin installer for Joomla and WordPress

Here is a quick video explaining this tool from Tim Davis of Basic Joomla

Note this was filmed before the 2024 refresh of the mySites.guru interface. Some screens and menus differ.

How to install or update a Joomla! extension

You can use mySites.guru to mass install Joomla extension zip file to hundreds of your connected sites right from your mySites.guru account,

How to install a WordPress Plugin to manage sites

Again, you can use mySites.guru to mass install WordPress plugin to 1000s of connected WordPress sites all in one go.

Steps to Mass Installing WordPress Plugin (or Joomla)

1 – Upload a plugin zip file or provide the url you want us to use

2 – Select the sites you want us to mass install Joomla extension to

Sit back and relax – mySites.guru will then install the zip to your sites

mySites.guru will then install the plugin on all the selected sites, with no more interaction needed. Sit back and relax. Go grab a coffee if you like, we will be finished before the kettle boils!

Relax

Keep an eye on your Joomla and WordPress SSL Certificate Expirations with mySites.guru

You already know that mySites.guru is an amazing unique dashboard, bringing together information from all your Joomla and WordPress sites in one place, but there are some smaller features that we, and our customers just take for granted, as they only activate when something goes wrong.

SSL Certificate checks are one such feature that gets invoked when things go wrong with your site, and when you really need to be alerted to it.

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Ultimate Tools for managing multiple WordPress & Joomla Sites

Ok another Friday release – we deploy 7 days a week, and especially on a Friday, our favourite day for features to be released and deployed!

Earlier in the week we reinstated the “Backup All” sites button, this time its the “Snapshot All” button!

One of the most requested features this week was the ability to update the snapshot of all sites in one go. This is useful just before a mass update of Joomla or WordPress sites.

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The mySites.guru Command Palette Navigation

One of the quickest and easiest ways to navigate an application is with a Command Palette Navigation. The service at mySites.guru has a huge list of tools for you to use in its command palette – just press cmd k / ctrl k to invoke and navigate the whole service with a few keystrokes,

Of course – you need to be in your account at https://manage.mysites.guru for this to work 🙂

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How to upgrade 100s of Joomla and WordPress sites from one dashboard

upgrade 1000s of WordPress and Joomla sites from your phone while drinking coffee

One of the most popular reasons for being able to add multiple (unlimited!) Joomla and WordPress sites in a single dashboard, is the ability to upgrade the core Joomla and WordPress versions with the minimal of fuss – and clicks! With the Ultimate Toolset from mySites.guru you can mass upgrade Joomla and WordPress sites with ease!

In this blog post we will show how quick and simple it is to upgrade unlimited sites in one go, from your mySites.guru account, with zero downtime and no fuss.

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mySites.guru powers through 60,000 Joomla and WordPress Sites Managed

[Edit: This post was first published several years ago – its SEO is great but the number (60,000) has been increased by tens of thousands more sites!]

Firstly a huge thank you to our loyal subscribers, a large number of which have been with us since our very first month in 2012 when we launched.

mySites.guru is a unique service for managing Joomla and WordPress sites.

Others have attempted to replicate our service but none have come even close. Any service can do updates and backups – but we are light years ahead with unique tools and services not found anywhere else in other services.

Last weekend, we connected our 60,000 live site to the mySites.guru service.

There have been many more than 60,000 sites connected in total, but we only log the ACTIVE number of sites connected, and in our database in real-time.

We don’t track, log, record the number of sites that have been added and then removed over the years, once a site is deleted.

I just wanted to say a huge thanks to those that are ending 2020 with their subscriptions to mySites.guru – your investment in our success has been reinvested into making the service a huge success – much more is in the plans for 2020, some of which has been kept top secret as I work on it.

Thank you.

Enjoy your holiday festive Christmas period…. but keep an eye out, Joomla 3.9.14 will be released next Tuesday (I’m guessing, well I know, but its still a guess).


Joomla 5 Technical Requirements

Joomla 5.0.0 was released in October 2023, and it introduced a new strict joomla technical requirements minimum of MySQL 8.0.13, MariaDB 10.4.0 and PHP 7.2.5

The mySites.guru tool for Joomla 5 Technical Requirements – Hosting Check is a feature of the subscription at mySites.guru

These versions should be very un-controversial, however it quickly became apparent that some incompetent and incumbent web hosts, such as SiteGround, did not provide MySQL 8 and refused to give timeframes on when they would migrate their hosting services to support MySQL 8 – This is not a SiteGround1 bashing blog post per se. But as a webhost that used to officially support the Joomla project – and still (Feb 2024) has no planned date for MySQL 8 its a very very sad state.

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WordPress Debug Constants

WordPress Debug Constants are settings that help developers identify and address errors within their WordPress installations and enable WordPress debug modes.

The mySites.guru snapshot and Ultimate tools for WordPress make this easy!

These constants enable a variety of debugging tools and display error-related information on the screen, making it easier to pinpoint the root causes of issues.

Let’s delve into the key Debug Constants and how they can be utilized effectively, and then look at how mySites.guru can help you check these constants across all WordPress sites in one place

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67,000 Joomla And WordPress sites trust mySites.guru for their update management

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

How To Fix All Joomla 3 Security Issues With A Single Click

We all know Joomla 3 is now end of life, but how to fix Joomla 3 security issues still being found without going crazy?

This article was written in Feb 2024, and at the time of writing all facts and figures were correct.

Introducing the mySites.guru One Click Fix All Joomla 3 Security Issues Tool!

This new tool, as part of the Ultimate Tools for Joomla in the mySites.guru service is hosted in the Site Snapshot.

The tool only runs on Joomla 3.10.12 version – that is the last officially released public version of the Joomla 3 series – ignoring the commercial ELTs scam scheme.

The tool displays the number of files that we have determined are not yet patched and gives you the ability to one click fix that site by allowing us to patch the Joomla 3.10.12 files for you.

There are currently 36 files that need modifying since Joomla 3.10.12 was released, to make Joomla 3.10.12 as secure as possible, addressing all known security issues at this time.

Where can I find this tool to fix my Joomla 3 security issues?

You can use the Command Palette cmd k and search for find all, or you can view the tool in the Joomla Configuration section of the Snapshot on your Manage Joomla Site page in your mySites.guru account.

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mySites.guru connected to over 64,000 Joomla and WordPress Sites

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/en/register

We are incredibly humbled.

The thing is, people love us because, despite our lack of marketing, shiny site, podcast, and lipstick – we have a rock solid product that out-performs expectations every day.

Yeah any service can backup, update and monitor a site. But not all services are created equal. Ours is invested into daily, new code deployed multiple times a day – every day. We react and respond to emerging threats, add new hack signatures and patterns daily, and our detection of Joomla and WordPress hacks in file is second to none.

I work on this project full time. Its not a side hustle or investment for me – its my passion.

There is always room to improve, and deploying multiple times a day, we improve things daily, grazing at the code, refining features, add value and give you more power each week to maintain your sites, and your customer sites with ease.

75,000+ sites now trust mySites.guru.

Thats incredible, but only just the beginning!


Monitor site uptime with mySites.guru

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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Migrating to Joomla 4 when using mySites.guru

This is not an article telling you how to migrate Joomla 3 to Joomla 4.

This is an article for mySites.guru subscribers on how to continue to use the mySites.guru service with their Joomla sites after migrating them.

Joomla 3 is nearing its end of life. and will reach its final resting date on August 17, 2023.

After that date no more Joomla 3 releases will be made. Not even if a security issue is found in Joomla 3!

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Backup All Your Joomla & WP Sites Easily – With One Button in mySites.guru

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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Site Management is about MORE than just Upgrades, Backups and Uptime Monitoring

We have heard it time and time again. “Managed site hosting”, “managed server hosting”, “managed updates”… there is so much more than just Updates, backups and Monitoring needed to run a successful agency full of sites!

Here at mySites.guru, we have tens of thousands of Joomla and WordPress sites, and over a decade of experience within the Joomla project, delivering architectures for large companies, small companies and digital agencies.

We know. We know there is so much more to website management than just running mass bulk updates, backups and checking for uptime.

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