WordPress Site Health watches PHP, cron, and plugins. It does
not watch whether your
domain is about to expire, whether DNS still points at this install, or whether SPF/DKIM/DMARC will dump order email into spam.
Domain Anchor (free, no Aepto account) watches that layer for
this site only.
Free — works the moment you activate
- Domain registration expiry — days left + registrar when the registry publishes it
- SSL / TLS certificate expiry — days left + issuer
- DNS snapshot — A / AAAA / NS (and change journal when records move)
- Tether check — confirms the public hostname still serves this WordPress (not “A record equals server IP”, which breaks behind Cloudflare)
- Email authentication grade — SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX from public DNS
- Email alerts — choose up to 10 recipients; toggle domain / SSL / tether / DNS / Mail Pulse alerts; pick reminder days (30 / 14 / 7 / 1)
- Mail Pulse — weekly delivery probe with click-to-confirm; catches silent wp_mail failures; loud wp-admin warning when mail is dead
- Test email — Settings → Send test email to all recipients (if it fails, use an SMTP plugin — many hosts block PHP mail())
- Admin bar chip — quick Domain / SSL countdown for admins
- Dashboard widget — at-a-glance risks
- Continuity report (PDF) — dense client-ready PDF (expiry, tether, DNS, email auth, Mail Pulse); Connected adds outside uptime %, stability, latency, downtime history
No account. No API key. No front-end scripts on your public site.
Optional — Connect free with Aepto
Sign in with Aepto (OAuth, no pasted secrets) to protect this WordPress from the
outside:
- Outside uptime board in Protection — live status, 24h/7d/30d/90d uptime %, stability, latency, downtime duration history (alerts even if WordPress cannot send mail)
- Add this site to your Aepto portfolio
- Domain Watch and Theft Guard
- Attention inbox in wp-admin
- Open the full Aepto dashboard for this domain
Paid Aepto plans (checkout on
app.aepto.com)
- AI page monitoring — catch white screens, critical / database errors, and “uptime green but the page is broken”
- Alert webhooks — push incidents to Slack, tickets, Zapier, on-call tools
The free Domain Anchor stays fully usable forever. Connect and paid features are optional upgrades, not a crippled teaser.
Who this is for
- Site owners who renew domains once a year and forget
- WooCommerce / form sites that need mail to actually deliver
- Agencies who need a clean continuity report for clients
- Anyone who has been burned by DNS pointing somewhere else
External services
This plugin may contact third-party / external services as follows:
- Your site’s hostname — TLS certificate probe and tether self-check against the public hostname of this WordPress site. Data sent: HTTPS connection to your own host (no third-party account). Runs when you run Domain Anchor or on the scheduled cron.
- Public DNS resolvers (via PHP DNS functions / the server’s configured resolvers) — used to read A, AAAA, NS, MX, and TXT records for email authentication grading and DNS snapshots. Data sent: the domain name being queried. Runs during Domain Anchor checks.
- RDAP bootstrap (RDAP.org) — used to look up domain registration expiry / registrar data when available. Data sent: the domain name in an HTTPS RDAP query. Service info: https://about.rdap.org/ (includes privacy considerations). Terms / policy: https://about.rdap.org/
- Verisign RDAP — fallback / TLD RDAP lookup for supported zones (for example .com). Data sent: the domain name in an HTTPS RDAP query. Terms of use: https://www.verisign.com/legal-center/rdap-terms/ — Privacy: https://www.verisign.com/legal-center/privacy/
- Aepto (https://app.aepto.com) — only when you Connect, opt in to anonymous install stats, or load optional outside-uptime / Protection data. Data may include install id, site URL/host, OAuth tokens you authorize, and monitoring identifiers you enable. Privacy: https://aepto.com/privacy — Terms: https://aepto.com/terms
No third-party ads or analytics scripts are injected on the public front end of your site.
Aepto is a product of
Limitless Hosting. Learn more at
aepto.com.