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
About this tool.
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:
- Vulnerability monitoring : every installed plugin, theme and core version is checked against a live feed of known vulnerabilities, with severity, CVE and the version that fixes it. Free, no API key, no account.
- Uptime monitoring : each site is checked on a schedule; retry-then-alert avoids false alarms, you get an email the moment a site goes down or recovers, and every site shows its uptime over the last 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days.
- 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.
- Site notes : keep client contacts, hosting details or anything else on each site’s page, searchable from the Sites list.
- 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.
Full feature list, screenshots and setup guides: omniswp.com
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.
