[GET] WP Pipeline

Imagine you wake up tomorrow and find that all of your WordPress sites are down and losing you cash!

If this hasn’t happened to you yet then it’s likely that it will soon … and what will you do then?


1. The Ideal Blogger: You keep all of your blogs up to date regularly. You always install the latest security patches, versions of plugins and themes.

2. The Normal Blogger: You only ever upgrade your blogs when you login to post and sometimes not even then.

If you fall into the first group, then I am surprised and you are amongst the top 2% of bloggers. Or more likely, you already own a copy of WP Pipeline

If however you fall into the second group, then this will be the most important letter that you have ever read.

When you login to your blog to make a post, do you see the warning at the top of your blog and ignore it?

Or perhaps you take note of it, but are in too much of a hurry to deal with the warning at that moment as you are desperate to get the task at hand done.

It was a set and forget blog that made money from AdSense. The search engine rankings were so strong that I didn’t even need to do any linkbuilding. I literally left it to run and smiled whenever I checked my AdSense account and found free money in there…

Then, one day I noticed that I hadn’t made any money from it that day so went and checked the blog. There was a large notice on it saying that I had been hacked by the "Killin Eegles". Not a big problem I thought as my webhost had a backup…

Upon investigation, it turned out that they had been able to hack the site because of a vulnerability in an old plugin that I had. What was more annoying to find was that in the current version of the plugin, the vulnerability had already been fixed! So it was pretty much my fault for not keeping my website up to date… which gets hard to remember when you have just one site – let alone several, or a hundred or more!

A monthly loss of $3k is hard to swallow, but there wasn’t much I could do apart from start the blog again and hope that Google gave me the same love that they had done before. They didn’t.

Trust me when I say that you do NOT want this to happen to you. It is a real slap in the face after you have worked so hard on a site, not to mention any lost income… that really hurts!

You know and I know that you ‘should’ be regularly updating your plugins, themes and WordPress software itself but…

The task of maintaining your sites becomes such a chore that even though you know you should be taking care of it you simply just leave it until ‘another day’.

The trouble is, that magical day when you find time to update your sites rarely ever arrives and so you hold yourself at the mercy of hackers and any other problems that may come up because of your neglect.

Let me share with you two fictional examples of problems and solutions that people have had with WordPress and its management:

Andy is aged 24 and makes money by auto blogging. He currently has 57 blogs which bring him in around $30 a day from AdSense and $13 a day from being an Amazon affiliate.

Just this month, he has broken the $1,250 mark in profit and is pretty pleased with how things are going.

He plans on creating more blogs, but as he has a full time job, he finds it hard to find the time to create them while fitting around his busy social life. His girlfriend enjoys being taken out for expensive meals and going to the theatre but doesn’t really like it when he spend up to 5 hours in an evening creating a new blog.

Andy takes his girlfriend Catherine away for a long weekend and when he gets back on Sunday, he checks his Amazon and AdSense income.

This is usually the favorite part of his day by far, but he has a shocking surprise when he checks the last 3 days of income.

On Friday, instead of bringing in over $40, he has made $33. Although this is 20% less than average he also knows that income can go up and down.

When he checks Sunday’s income, he finds that he has brought in $5 from AdSense and only $3 from Amazon.

Everything looks fine on the first few that he looks at. The home page is loading fine and the posts also look fine. The AdSense and Amazon ads are showing up well.

By the 5th, he is quite stumped. He knows that something is wrong as income and stats are way down, but he doesn’t really know what.

On the 5th site, he decides to take a look at the WP Admin and a message shows up telling him that 6 of his plugins are not up to date. This includes the plugin that he uses to autoblog.

He takes a look at the settings and finds that for the last week no new posts have been showing on the blog.

He updates all of his plugins, themes and WordPress version and like a magician has swung a magic wand, his blog has now filled up with all of the posts that should have been there for the last week.

Andy breathes a sigh of relief and then realizes that he now has to do exactly the same thing 57 times. eurgh. And perhaps more importantly, he now wants to make sure that he avoids this happening again.

Andy hears of some software called WP Pipeline. He sets it up and imports the details of his blogs. In total it…

WP Pipeline