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Thanks, Jamie. I just paid for the smallest plan from Brevo and it integrated nicely with an API key into WP Mailer. All is working fine now.

Thanks, Edward. I’m assuming that option in Yoast would noindex all of the posts, which I wouldn’t want to happen. I want mine (the syndicated ones) to be noindex, but theirs (my clients) to be indexed. Am I correct with that assumption? Hopefully not, but if so…

…do you have any other solutions come to mind?
Perhaps setting up a category that will be a no-index category or setting up a user profile in each of their admins where I can post from that user profile and anything attributed to that user will be posted as a noindex? Or something else I’m not thinking of?

Thanks, Krishna & cubecolour. Here’s the site: http://www.relaunchradio.com. I’m not a dev, so I won’t be doing the work. It’s about 80% where I want it now. What do you think? Fix it now or after the flip to WP? I appreciate the follow up.

Thanks, @blacklinemedia. Great explanation and thanks for the links. Let me know if you or your clients have an opinion between the plugin you shared and this one (which appeared top in my WP search): http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/white-label-cms

My scenario is different than most for a couple reasons. Not sure if it would change any of your recommendations.

My clients just rent (for a lack of a better word) their site and we do their content updates when needed. The only access they’ll have is an “Editor” role to create and edit their blog posts. All the sites are identical, except for their logo, nav and some page content. Good news is I’ve used WP for years, so I know the (very few) plugins I’ll need to install pre-cloning. It’s the white label plugin that will be new to me.

I gave Multisite serious consideration. But, was talked out of it by a couple Multisite consultants because we’re just adding the blogs to my client’s responsive HTML5 layout. The dev will just be adding a little code into WP so the styling, header and footer of the blog is seamless with the HTML site. A solution I found out would work through a question I asked here earlier in the week: http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/add-wordpress-to-a-vanilla-php-site?replies=7

With all that said, I think you’re right that using the plugin is the smarter play, because of the potential update problems (something I have an unnatural fear of anyhow). Thanks and let me know if you have any other thoughts I may not be considering.

Thanks, @ catacaustic. I was hoping this was the case. And is there anything missing from my assumption from my initial post that a good PHP dev should be able to integrate the header, footer and css styling from the main site pages into the new blog?

Thanks, @[email protected]. I’m really surprised there are no services out there where you can more easily get live coding help. Kinda’ like http://www.bobwp.com, but for coding assistance. If anyone knows of anything like this, let me know. Cheers.

LOL. Classic on the “Mind you”. Thanks, Mika 🙂

Thanks, Mika. Loved your “Don’t Use WP Multisite” presentation. It convinced me that Multisite was the right choice for my situation. Go figure…lol. You say “Mind it’s a per-user setting.” Guessing without autocorrect you meant, “Mine is a per-user setting.”

Would this mean that I, as a super-admin for the network and admin for each of my client sites can choose to turn-off (remove, hide, etc…) the Visual editor when I’m logged in. But, my clients (who will have their own limited-role login) will still be able to create & edit blog posts with the Visual editor?