Siteward Child

Siteward Child is the companion plugin for Siteward, a free, self-hosted dashboard for managing many WordPress sites from one place. Install this plugin on any WordPress site you want to manage centrally, then connect it to your dashboard with a one-time secure handshake.

Once connected, it exposes a single signed REST endpoint that your dashboard uses to read update status, UpdraftPlus backup history and site health, apply updates, and manage plugins. The dashboard always initiates the traffic, and this plugin never contacts any other server. After an update it loads this site’s own homepage to check the site still works.

• Signed, replay-protected REST endpoint (verified against your dashboard’s public key).
• Reports core, plugin and theme updates.
• Reports UpdraftPlus backup history and status.
• Reports basic site health (WP-Cron, load).
• Safe updates: keeps the previous version of each plugin or theme your dashboard updates for 7 days, and puts it back automatically if the update breaks the site. You can also roll back yourself under Settings, Siteward Connection, Rollback.
• Applies updates and, for fleet plugin management, activates, deactivates or uninstalls plugins, but only when instructed by your signed, paired dashboard.
• Known vulnerabilities: when your dashboard finds a plugin on this site with a known vulnerability, a warning row appears under that plugin on the Plugins screen, with the version that fixes it. Only people who can update plugins see it, and your dashboard can switch it off.

This plugin does nothing on its own until paired with a Siteward dashboard.

Don’t have the dashboard yet? Install the free Siteward plugin on one central site, or read the setup guide at omniswp.com.