Glow: maintenance & support management for agencies

All-in-one WordPress maintenance, support and client management platform for agencies - updates, backups, uptime, reports, support and more. This plugin connects your WordPress installation to the Glow dashboard, where you can manage multiple WordPress websites from a single, centralized location. Key Features:

• Multi-site management: Oversee all your websites from one dashboard.
• Efficient workflows: Streamline updates, backups, and other maintenance tasks across multiple sites.
• Safe updates with automatic rollback: Each plugin update creates a backup, runs a compatibility check, captures before and after screenshots, verifies the site is still healthy, and automatically restores the previous version if the update broke anything. Removes the fear of update-related downtime.
• Support your clients: Support tickets with chat-like UI and quick navigation
• Backup functionality: Create and manage backups of your sites.
• Uptime monitoring: Monitor the Uptime of your clients' websites.
• Client reports: Quickly create and send high quality reports that actually mean something to your client.
• Time tracking: Allocate an allotted amount of time to each client.
• Enhanced productivity: Focus on growing your business instead of repetitive maintenance.

4.2.9 - 15th June 2026

• New: redesigned admin page leads with one-click signup (Track A) for new users and a single-click "Add this site to my Glow account" (Track B) for existing customers, with a magic-link email fallback if they're not currently signed in. The connection code stays as the manual path.
• New: whitelabel customers now see their company logo and brand throughout the plugin admin (Plugins list, Settings menu, masthead).
• New: GLOW_URL, GLOW_STORE_DATA_URL, and GLOW_X_API_KEY can be overridden via wp-config.php for staging tests.
• Improvement: Plugins admin row link renamed from "Get Code" to "Connect to Glow"; disconnect now clears cached whitelabel data so the page reflects current state.

4.2.8 - 3rd June 2026

• Improvement: plugin update error responses now include the real WordPress upgrader error code and the failing file path (when WordPress provides one). Previously every failure surfaced as a generic "plugin_upgrader_error" with just the message, making diagnosis difficult.

4.2.7 - 31st May 2026

• Fix: safe update no longer fails with "Plugin directory not found" for plugins whose directory name contains a dot (e.g. plugin-check-1.9). The slug sanitization now preserves dots while still blocking path traversal.

4.2.6 - 24th May 2026

• Fix: site health action no longer fatals on modern WordPress (was referencing Site_Health class; WordPress core defines it as WP_Site_Health).

4.2.5 - 13th May 2026

• Fix: clear WordPress plugin object cache before reading the plugin list, ensuring data refresh always returns the actual installed version from disk.

4.2.4 - 13th May 2026

• Fix: clear WordPress plugin object cache after restoring files during rollback, so the correct version is reported immediately on the next data sync.

4.2.3 - 13th May 2026

• Fix: disk_free_space() and disk_total_space() now guarded with function_exists() to prevent a PHP fatal error on hosts that disable these functions.

4.2.2 - 13th May 2026

• New: safe update backup metadata now stored as local JSON sidecar files on the WP server alongside each backup zip. Rollback icon persists across page refreshes without relying on database records.
• New: plugin backup versions included in the DynamoDB data sync so the dashboard can offer a version picker when rolling back.
• Improvement: rollback and cleanup actions now accept slug and version instead of a stored path, making them more reliable.

4.2.1 - 27th April 2026

• Fix: safe update actions (backup, restore, compatibility check) now correctly receive parameters when called via the REST API.

4.2.0 - 23rd April 2026

• New: safe plugin updates with compatibility check, screenshot comparison, and automatic rollback on failure.

4.1.2 - 23rd April 2026

• Fix: server-side commands no longer fire the wp_login action, preventing spurious 2FA codes on sites with two-factor authentication plugins.

4.1.1 - 22nd April 2026

• Fix: connection status check now only runs on admin pages, not on every public page load.

4.1.0 - 16th April 2026

• New: Disconnect button in the Connected card - generates a new connection code without deleting the plugin.
• Fix: plugin deactivation now shows site as Not Connected in the dashboard; reactivation auto-reconnects using the preserved key.
• Fix: connection status page now shows inline confirmation before disconnecting instead of a browser dialog.
• Fix: connection status updates reliably after disconnect with loading indicator during the operation.
• Fix: admin notice after activation now correctly links to the Get Code page.
• Fix: all plugin functions and variables renamed to glow_worker_ prefix to avoid conflicts with other plugins.

4.0.7 - 14th April 2026

• Fix: server info (PHP, MySQL, disk usage) now returns correctly on sites with PHP display_errors enabled.
• Fix: database table names in server overview now display correctly on all MySQL configurations.
• Performance: removed unnecessary CSS and JS assets that were loaded on frontend page.

4.0.6 - 12th April 2026

• Cleanup: automatically delete the legacy Glow plugin folder (slug: glow) after migration to the new plugin.
• Fix: copy code button now reliably copies the connection key on all browsers.

4.0.5 - 12th April 2026

• Compatibility: automatically deactivate the legacy Glow plugin (slug: glow) if both are simultaneously active, preserving the existing connection key.

4.0.4 - 09th April 2026

• Server tab: distinguish between not configured, not found, and not readable states for error logs.

4.0.3 - 09th April 2026

• Server tab: added server info, error log, and cron jobs support.

4.0.2 - 08th April 2026

• Plugin check fixes: removed debug error_log, added phpcs ignore annotations, corrected readme format.

4.0.1 - 06th April 2026

• SSO fix: redirect to wp-login.php instead of homepage to avoid CDN stripping Set-Cookie headers.

4.0.0 - 06th April 2026

• Two-phase SSO: server-to-server token generation for improved reliability behind WAFs. Browser redeems token via plain GET /?glow_sso={token}.

3.5.7 - 05th April 2026

• Connection reliability improvements: non-blocking glow_send, pull model for commands on real-cron sites, cron health detection.

3.5.6 - 04th April 2026

• Added REST API endpoint for WAF-friendly plugin/theme/core updates.

3.5.5 - 05th February 2026

• Major changes - pass live plugin check.

3.5.1 - 05th January 2026

• Major changes - pass live plugin check + new functionality to install plugin.

3.5.0 - 05th December 2025

• Major changes - pass live plugin check.

3.4.8 - 28th October 2025

• Activation and deactivation process updates.

3.4.7 - 21st August 2025

• Updater request updates.

3.4.6 - 29th May 2025

• Requests and options updates.

3.4.5 - 26th May 2025

• Minor UI updates.

3.4.4 - 20th May 2025

• Added a filter to the get users function.

3.4.3 - 16th May 2025

• Minor updates.

3.4.2 - 11th April 2025

• Upgrade process updated.

3.4.1 - 08th April 2025

• Upgrade process updated.

3.4.0 - 05th April 2025

• Upgrade process updated.

3.3.9 - 25th February 2025

• Minor fixes.

3.3.8 - 04th February 2025

• Version check.

3.3.7 - 24th December 2024

• glow_self_update.

3.3.6 - 3rd December 2024

• User interaction with Glow.

3.3.5 - 08th November 2024

• Auth user 2fa fix.

3.3.4 - 02nd October 2024

• Get plugins list fixes.

3.3.3 - 19th September 2024

• Check plugins, themes, core stored and current versions.

3.3.2 - 21st August 2024

• Check plugins, themes, core stored and current versions.

3.3.1 - 9th July 2024

• UpdraftPlus integration.

3.3.0 - 1st July 2024

• UpdraftPlus integration.

3.2.9 - 18th June 2024

• Check core version changes.

3.2.8 - 05th June 2024

• Check backup progress changes.

3.2.7 - 06th May 2024

• Update resources changes.

3.2.6 - 18th March 2024

• Multisite feature changes.

3.2.5 - 4th March 2024

• Minor changes.

3.2.4 - 13th February 2024

• Backup functionality updated.

3.2.2 - 6th January 2024

• Config updated.

3.2.1 - 5th December 2023

• Backup process updated.

3.2.0 - 25th October 2023

• Backup process updated.

3.1.2 - 12th October 2023

• Cleaning logs.

3.1.1 - 09th October 2023

• Fix Divi theme bug.

3.1.0 - 13th September 2023

• Multisite functionality added.

3.0.0 - 26th June 2023

• Change activities and update resources, plugin and themes list cron.

2.4.5 - 24th May 2023

• Change location of Glow code.

2.4.4 - 28th April 2023

• Resource worker updates.

2.4.3 - 12th April 2023

• Add custom description for agencies.

2.4.2 - 6th April 2023

• Activities request url update.

2.4.1 - 3rd April 2023

• Theme update fixes.

2.3.9 - 27th March 2023

• Delete plugins updated.

2.3.8 - 27th February 2023

• Record activity for WordPress updates.

2.3.7 - 14th February 2023

• Backup fixes.

2.3.6 - 14th February 2023

• Logging.

2.3.3 - 2nd 2022

• Fix issue with active theme.

2.3.2 - 24th November 2022

• Fix backups for PHP 8.

2.3.1 - 11th November 2022

• Resolve multiple API call issues when checking for Glow plugin updates.

2.3.0 - 10th October 2022

• Backup functionality.

2.0.0 - 16th February 2022

• Auto update functionality.