How to manage multiple websites in one place

Steps

1. Import every site

   Drag each site’s folder or downloaded file onto Devdwell, one at a time. Each becomes a card on the dashboard.

2. Group them in folders

   Make a folder per client or kind of site, such as Clients and Personal, and move each card into one.

3. Check the status of each

   Use the sidebar counts: Live, Not published, Changes waiting and Needs attention. Click a count to see only those sites.

4. Open the sites you’re changing in tabs

   Click a card to open it in its own tab. Describe changes, or click the part of the page you mean, and switch between tabs while changes carry on.

5. Publish through staging

   Publish to a private staging link first, check it, then publish to production.

6. Share each site with the right people

   Invite clients and teammates to the sites they work on only, with “Can edit” or “Can edit and publish”.

A weekly routine that works

• Monday: look at the sidebar counts. Anything under “Changes waiting” is work that never went live; anything under “Needs attention” is broken and the card says why.
• Through the week: open each site you’re changing in its own tab and move several jobs along at once.
• Before publishing: send yourself or the client the staging link.
• When a job ends: remove people from the sites they no longer need.

Why one place matters

When sites live in different folders, hosting accounts and spreadsheets, the cost isn’t the changes; it’s the remembering. One dashboard that knows what’s live removes the “is this the version that’s up?” question entirely. We wrote more about this in how to manage multiple websites in one place.

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