Top Tools for Managing Your WordPress Site With Your Mobile Phone

There may come a time when you’re away from your computer and need to check in on your website. What better way to do that than through WordPress’s very own mobile app for Android and iOS users? You can publish content, check site activity, monitor comments, and more

Ever wish there was a tool that could help you manage all your WordPress websites from one spot? The ManageWP mobile app will help you do just that. Free features of this app include updates management, security checks, comment review, and analytics—for all your websites, in one place.

If you’re running your e-commerce website with WooCommerce, you’re in luck as they also have a mobile app. This app is simply designed and very easy to use, giving you instant access to your website’s product catalog, orders, customer data, and even multi-store oversight.

Haven’t heard of Pingdom yet? This mobile app is the website monitoring tool every WordPress website owner, user, or developer should have on them at all times. This uptime monitoring service puts your website’s current performance levels and status in the palm of your hand.

While there are tools above that include analytics within them, if you want real-time updates straight from the source, go with the Google Analytics mobile app. The folks at Google put together this helpful video to show you how easy it is to use:

For anyone involved in the content creation process and who also happens to be an iOS user, check out the Ulysses app. One quick search online for “Ulysses” and “WordPress” will show you how much people are in love with this sync-up that makes creating and publishing content to WordPress a cinch.

Here’s another iOS mobile app meant to help you create content on the go. While this is very similar to Ulysses in terms of purpose, the layout, usability, and WordPress integrations are much different. In fact, this one makes it so easy to create and update content from your phone or tablet that I’d suggest you try this if you don’t already have a preferred app.

Automattic, the creators of WordPress, created this super simple multi-platform mobile app to help you capture and keep notes organized. You can also share notes with others, publish them to WordPress, and make a backup of them.

Buffer—the social media aggregation, management, and sharing platform—integrates with a lot of WordPress-friendly platforms (including WordPress itself). So if you’re looking for an easy way to share your website’s posts on social media, check out this app.

Disqus is like the Buffer equivalent for websites. Whether you want to use this on your mobile device or desktop, you’ll be able to aggregate all of your site’s comments into one place and generate real-time engagements with those comments.

So long as your WordPress website is connected to your MailChimp account, you’ll be able to put the MailChimp mobile app to good use. With this mobile app, you can create and send newsletters and emails to your most recent subscriber list, no matter where you are.

Polldaddy is the iOS app you didn’t know you needed (until now). If you want to take your website’s real-time engagement to a new level, use this app to conduct in-person surveys, polls, quizzes, or to collect comments, and then share them to your site.

If you’re using LiveChat to power your live on-site interactions, then you’re going to want the mobile app, too. With mobile access to your site’s live chat feature, never leave your visitors feeling like they need to wait for a response (that’s the whole point of a live chat, right?)

If you’re using Dropbox for storing website backup copies, project specs, design mockups, and other files related to your web development projects, the mobile app is a must. You can use it not only to access work files while you’re out and about, but you can take pictures in real-time and instantly upload them to Dropbox for later use.

One of the customer relationship management (CRM) tools we recently suggested for WordPress is the Zoho CRM. Why? Because it’s got a laser-focus on sales and integrates well with the platform. If you do happen to use Zoho to collect leads, customer, or subscriber info, get the mobile app so you can always have the most up-to-date information at hand.

If you’re already using Wrike to power your business’s project and task management, then you most likely already know that you can integrate Wrike with WordPress to convert tasks and documents into post and page drafts. (In case you didn’t know, now you do.)

Sure, it would be easy to list out the multitude of social media, project management, and other marketing mobile apps that integrate with WordPress. Instead, why not use Zapier’s “zaps” to make those connections? While Zapier itself is not a mobile app, it does however give users the ability to create integrated that might not otherwise be easily connected. Feedly, Paper, Google Apps, Evernote, a wide range of social media platforms, and more can be connected to WordPress using this tool.