ViewMend Site Tracker

ViewMend Site Tracker connects WordPress to ViewMend website change monitoring. It records content updates, plugin and theme changes, core updates, and supported cache purges, then sends them to ViewMend in the background. ViewMend runs website checks, captures screenshots, compares pages, and stores reports on its own servers. The plugin displays those findings and performance results in WordPress administration. Events include the affected public page URL when WordPress can identify it. ViewMend can match that URL to a tracked page and queue a check, depending on your integration settings, credits, and existing queued checks. Use Timeline events alongside completed checks to investigate changes after a release or content update. A ViewMend account and Site Tracker integration are required. Supported WordPress changes

• Public posts, pages, and products when they are published, meaningfully updated, or permanently deleted.
• Plugin installation, activation, deactivation, update, and deletion.
• Theme installation, activation, update, and deletion.
• Completed WordPress core updates.
• Confirmed full-domain and exact-URL WP Rocket cache purges.
• An explicit administrator connection test.

Autosaves, revisions, drafts, trash moves, comments, users, orders, customer records, media churn, and arbitrary option changes do not create events. How WordPress website change monitoring works

1. WordPress confirms an enabled content, plugin, theme, core, or supported cache action.
2. The plugin creates one stable event ID and stores the compact event in its local queue.
3. A background worker delivers the event to ViewMend without delaying the originating WordPress request.
4. ViewMend records the Timeline context and returns delivery, matched-page, and queue status.
5. If automatic checks are enabled and the page is eligible, ViewMend queues a check. Results appear in ViewMend and the WordPress Overview.

Native WordPress controls and durable delivery The plugin has four sections: Overview, Connection, Event rules, and Activity. Overview displays findings, content changes, resources, and selected-page performance from completed ViewMend checks. Resource details include the stored request URLs for the selected check. Event rules let you choose which actions to report. For example, you can report plugin updates while leaving activation and deactivation events off. Activity shows delivery status, retries, and the response received from ViewMend. Website checks and page comparisons run in ViewMend.

1. Upload and activate the plugin.
2. Open ViewMend from the main WordPress administration menu.
3. Follow the setup-guide link on the Connection screen and create WordPress credentials in the target ViewMend Tracker project.
4. Copy the Integration ID and one-time API token into WordPress > ViewMend > Connection.
5. Save and test the connection. The test creates a real ViewMend event.
6. Open Event rules and choose the confirmed WordPress operations that should create events.
7. Open Activity, confirm the local test row reaches Delivered, and inspect the queue state returned by ViewMend.

WordPress cron must run for background delivery. The plugin schedules near-term work and a recurring five-minute recovery event. Multisite network activation is not supported. Activate and configure the plugin separately for each required site.

1.1.1

• Prevented private, password-protected and unknown page URLs from being included in WP Rocket cache events.
• Preserved encoded URLs and separate content edits, and added events for permalink changes and removal of password protection.
• Fixed queue, credential and event isolation when switching between multisite sites, and respected each site's uninstall preference.
• Preserved retried events during history cleanup and fixed scheduling of earlier deliveries.
• Prevented failed WordPress core updates from being reported as successful.
• Fixed validation of collapsed settings, clarified connection status and selected-page health, and kept isolated chart values visible.

1.1.0

• Added the ViewMend dashboard, findings, page performance, resource details and activity search.
• Updated connection setup, event rules and responsive layouts.
• Improved credential handling, delivery acknowledgements, retries and recovery.

1.0.0

• Initial release with WordPress events, background delivery, WP-CLI diagnostics and privacy controls.