Siteward

Siteward is a lean, self-hosted dashboard to manage multiple WordPress sites from one place, a no-bloat way to monitor uptime, run fleet-wide core, plugin and theme updates, watch UpdraftPlus backups and WP-Cron health, and catch critical errors across every site you maintain. It's a free, unlimited-site alternative to hosted maintenance services, with no per-site fees and no third-party cloud: you own the control panel. Install it on one central WordPress site, add the free Siteward Child plugin to each site you manage, and connect them with a one-time secure handshake. Then manage everything from your dashboard:

• Uptime monitoring: each site is checked on a schedule; retry-then-alert avoids false alarms, and you get an email the moment a site goes down or recovers.
• Fleet-wide updates: see every pending core, plugin and theme update in one place and apply them one-click or in bulk, with a live progress view.
• Critical-error detection: catches HTTP 5xx errors and the WordPress "critical error" white screen.
• Backup monitoring: see each site's latest UpdraftPlus backup and get alerted when backups are missing, stale, or failing.
• WP-Cron & health flags: surfaces overdue cron events, recovery mode, plugins/themes auto-paused after a fatal error, and Site Health critical issues.
• Secure & self-hosted: the dashboard initiates all traffic; every request is signed with an OpenSSL keypair and protected against replay. Your data never routes through a third-party cloud.

Every feature above is fully functional and free. Unlimited managed sites. No per-site fees. Siteward Pro (optional, sold separately): an add-on that adds fleet plugin management (bulk activate, deactivate, install and uninstall plugins across sites), SSL certificate & domain-expiry monitoring, a Dynamic Notification Engine that groups a whole server's outage into a single alert, and Zapier webhook notifications.

0.9.25

• New: tags. Create colour-coded labels in Settings, assign them to sites, then filter the overview by tag with Is / Is-Not conditions — for example, "Sync all" everything except sites tagged "Do not update". Bulk actions now run on whatever the overview is filtered to.
• Tags: create a tag inline while assigning it on a site's page, and apply (or remove) a tag across every site currently shown in one action.
• Site pages now show the server IP each site reports (companion plugin 0.7.3+), flagging private/internal addresses so you know which to group by hand.
• Overview: filter sites by status (Down, Connection error, Updates available, Backup issues, and more) from a dropdown next to the search, each showing a live count.
• Fix: "Sync all" now shows each site's real result — a green tick only when the site is healthy, amber with the reason when it synced but still has an issue (down, backup failing, etc.), and red when the sync failed. Previously every site showed a green tick regardless.
• "Recover plugins" moved to Settings → Maintenance, so the overview toolbar stays focused on day-to-day work.
• The Updates page can now be filtered by tag (and searched), so you can bulk-update a scoped set — for example, update every site except those tagged "Manual update only".
• Optionally show tags on the sites overview (toggle in the Tags filter), so you can see each site's tags — like which server it's on — at a glance.

0.9.10

• Housekeeping: the plugin author now links to omniswp.com. No functional change.

0.9.9

• Each managed site now records which companion plugin it runs, so the dashboard knows what that site supports. No visible change on its own.

0.9.8

• Siteward Child is now on WordPress.org, so the setup steps and the companion-plugin notice point there instead of to a manual download. Install it on each managed site from Plugins → Add New.

0.9.7

• Added an internal hook so add-ons can group related uptime alerts (for example, collapsing a whole server's sites into one notification). No change on its own; behaviour is identical without the Pro add-on.

0.9.6

• Bulk actions (updates, Sync all, Recover plugins) now run as many sites in parallel as your Concurrent requests setting allows, instead of a fixed few.

0.9.5

• "Sync all" now also retries any site showing a connection error, so a site that briefly fell offline self-heals on the next sync instead of needing a separate resync.

0.9.4

• Clearer, larger search icon on the sites overview.

0.9.3

• Added a dismissible notice pointing to the companion Siteward Child plugin download while it awaits WordPress.org approval.

0.9.2

• Settings → Maintenance: "Resync all sites now" button that refreshes every paired site, including any showing a stale connection error.

0.9.1

• Fix: align the Cancel button in the update-progress modal header.

0.9.0

• Backup monitoring (UpdraftPlus), WP-Cron health, and health flags (recovery mode, auto-paused extensions, Site Health) are now built in and fully free.
• Backup/cron alerting and per-flag thresholds added to Settings.
• Hardened input sanitization on settings save and bulk updates.

0.8.0

• Public release: unlimited-site monitoring, fleet updates, critical-error detection, and one-click admin login to managed sites.