YoPingMe – Uptime Monitoring & Status Pages
YoPingMe is a website monitoring service that watches your sites from outside and tells you when they stop answering. This plugin brings that view into wp-admin: a dashboard widget listing each of your monitors, whether it is up right now, and its uptime over the last 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days. E
YoPingMe is a website monitoring service that watches your sites from outside and tells you when they stop answering. This plugin brings that view into wp-admin: a dashboard widget listing each of your monitors, whether it is up right now, and its uptime over the last 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days. Every monitor in the account is listed, so if you look after several sites you see all of them from whichever site you are logged into.
This plugin is a viewer, not a monitor. It cannot detect your own site going down, because a site that is down does not run PHP. The checking is done by YoPingMe’s probes from outside your server; the plugin only shows you what they found. If you want to be told when your site goes down, set up alerts in your YoPingMe account.
What you get
- A dashboard widget with every monitor’s current status and uptime.
- A notice at the top of wp-admin when this site went down while you were away, so a 3am outage that fixed itself does not go unnoticed.
- A clear “as of” timestamp, so you always know how fresh the numbers are.
- An optional status strip for any page or post, if you publish a status page in your YoPingMe account. It appears only where you put it.
- An optional one-line badge for your front page footer. It is off by default.
What YoPingMe does
YoPingMe runs HTTP, keyword, ping and TCP checks and SSL certificate monitoring against your endpoints from probes on three continents, and alerts you by email, webhook or Slack. The free plan covers 10 monitors at 5-minute intervals.
Being told what you missed
When YoPingMe recorded an outage for this site while you were away, the plugin says so at the top of wp-admin the next time you log in: how long it lasted, when it started, and what the check saw. It looks back at most seven days, each administrator gets their own “since your last visit”, and the notice stays put while you work rather than vanishing on the first click. Dismiss it and it is gone until the next outage. There is a switch to turn it off entirely on the settings page.
This still does not make the plugin a monitor. It is telling you what YoPingMe’s probes saw from outside, after the fact.
Showing your status page (optional)
Status pages are made in your YoPingMe account, not here. If you publish one, the [yopingme_status] shortcode puts a compact strip wherever you want it: the overall state, a dot per service, and a link to the full status page. Nothing about it is automatic – with no page chosen under Settings > YoPingMe, or no shortcode on the page, the plugin renders nothing and makes no request for it.
