Title: Remote Website Management Plugin by Watchful Author: watchful Published: Novemba 22, 2019 Last modified: Machi 12, 2026 --- Tafuta vijalizi ![](https://ps.w.org/watchful/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=2198949) ![](https://ps.w.org/watchful/assets/icon.svg?rev=2739368) # Remote Website Management Plugin by Watchful By [watchful](https://profiles.wordpress.org/watchful/) [Pakua](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/watchful.zip) * [Details](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/watchful/#description) * [Reviews](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/watchful/#reviews) * [Installation](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/watchful/#installation) * [Development](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/watchful/#developers) [Saidia](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/watchful/) ## Maelezo Watchful is a web developers toolbox for remotely managing and monitoring multiple WordPress websites. Simply add all your production and staging sites into the [Watchful Dashboard](https://watchful.net) and use our tools to monitor uptime, backups, updates to WordPress and core and plugins, and more. You’ll be amazed at how much time and money you save managing your WordPress sites with Watchful. #### Top Features at-a-glance * Backup scheduler and monitor * Powerful plugin updates, including auto updates * Uptime monitor & SSL certificate checker * Best practice, malware, and filesystem scanners * Early warning system for intruder detection * SEO audit tool * Plugin tracker to monitor when plugins have been added and removed * Google Analytics integration * Website reporting for your clients * Customizable dashboard Our [Free Trial](https://app.watchful.net/free-trial.html) will let you test up to 5 sites at once to see how much. You won’t believe how much time you’ll save! ### Customizable Dashboard With your entire portfolio of websites in a single dashboard, you can easily review and prioritize website maintenance tasks. Sort by core version, number of pending updates, backup date, tags and more to optimize Watchful to your workflow. ### Powerful Update Technology The easiest way to protect your websites is to keep WordPress and all of its plugins up-to-date. With Watchful, you can apply updates across your entire portfolio in just one click. Supported updates include WordPress, all of the plugins in the WordPress repo, as well as a growing list of the most popular paid plugins. You can even manage your commercial license keys and remotely register new domains with commercial WordPress software vendors. ### Best Practice Scanner The Site Audit is a best practice scanner that checks your site for security best- practices, hacked or modified core files, and malware. If any problems are detected, advice and/or simple tools are provided to help fix any issues. ### SEO Audit Be sure that the technical aspects of your website are properly configured with the SEO Audit. The audit detects problems such as broken links, missing sitemaps, and content relevance — and recommends fixes — to ensure that your site is performing at it’s very best when indexed by search engines. ### Plugin & Extension Tracker The Plugin & Extension Tracker allows you to easily browse all of the WordPress plugins added to your website and logs any changes for unexpected modifications. By correlating the dates of plugin installation/upgrade to any bugs that arise on your sites, this logging feature greatly improves the troubleshooting process. The tracker also integrates with our system-wide search tools. This makes it fast and easy to locate all of your sites with specific plugins — and even a specific version of a plugin — so that maintenance tasks such as addressing zero-day security issues can be applied quickly and efficiently to only the sites that need them. ### Uptime Monitoring The Uptime Monitor checks your sites every minute of every day to make sure it is online. If your site cannot be reached, a notification is sent and the problem recorded. The monitor displays the last 10 uptime/downtime events and calculates the percentage uptime for the last day, 7 days, 30 days, and throughout the lifetime of your site. This information can be included in your white-label reports (see below). ### Google Analytics integration The Google Analytics integration allows you to instantly get an overview of your website traffic, visitors, most viewed pages, top referral sources, and most commonly searched for keywords. This information can be included in your white-label reports( see below). ### White-label Reports Our white-label reporting tool makes it easy to generate reports for your clients. Reports can be generated on a per-site basis, or based on tags, giving you a lot of flexibility in the report contents. Each report contains data on website uptime, Google Analytics, and logs for the indicated time period showing software updates and other site activity. These great looking reports can be sent to your client( s) to showcase the value of your services. ### There’s More! Watchful has lots more features and tools and is adding more functionality regularly. Check out our website and [try the free demo](https://app.watchful.net/free-trial.html). ### License This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA ## Screenshots * [[ * Watchful dashboard – Get a high-level overview of your web agency. * [[ * Remote backup manager – Schedule and monitor your backups. * [[ * Plugin auto updater – Set plugins to automatically update. * [[ * Uptime & SSL monitoring – Make sure sites are online and have valid SSL certificates. * [[ * Best practice, malware, and filesystem scanners – a suite of scanners to keep your site hardened against intruders. * [[ * Website Reports – Reports for your clients to show the value of your maintenance activities. ## Installation 1. Sign up for a free account at [Watchful.net](https://watchful.net). You will be automatically logged into the Watchful dashboard. 2. Install and activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress. 3. On the post-install screen, click the button called ‘Add to Watchful’. Full installation details can be [found on our website](https://watchful.net/faqs/installation/installing-the-watchful-client). ## FAQ ### Is Watchful compatible with my web host? Watchful works well with most hosting companies including managed hosts and digital experience providers. If you have trouble connecting a site, please click the ‘Support’ link at the top-right of the Watchful Dashboard. ### Is Watchful safe? Watchful connects to your website securely to transmit information and perform maintenance tasks. It is important to keep your Watchful account secure, do ewe strongly recommend using [2-factor authentication](https://watchful.net/faqs/security/enabling-2-factor-authentication)) with Watchful. ### Is Watchful free? The Forever Free account at Watchful will allow you to manage and perform maintenance on 1 website. Paid plans increase this limit. ### How long has Watchful been around? Watchful launched in 2012 and began supporting WordPress in 2017. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/45cb9d9b3c17a2e65123fb95a2dd6c9b103e44fbdfae4da0406ecd7f4c1e3eeb? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Outstanding tool, excellent support.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outstanding-tool-excellent-support/)󠁿 [marpomultimedia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/marpomultimedia/) Novemba 21, 2023 I’ve been using Watchful to maintain over 200 sites for quite a few years. The service they offer is invaluable in terms of efficiency and workflow to keep the sites secure and ensure backups are timely. Their support and service is always knowledgeable and polite and they go above and beyond to solve issues, even when the issue isn’t necessarily their fault. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d123cc3fda307d6b820055bc3c68068aa4451b1e30c52f2dec03795136a68192? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Best WordPress Website Management Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-wordpress-website-management-plugin/)󠁿 [arnoldwender](https://profiles.wordpress.org/arnoldwender/) Januari 28, 2022 For me, hands down, the best Wordpress Website Management Plugin available, keep up the good work! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ab9f43aa697b912eda669ffd05773ebee43c7bb92e280e5eafb12fb8bd1a3b56? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Très utile](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tres-utile-32/)󠁿 [Thomas_bck](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thomasbrunck/) Januari 22, 2020 1 reply Top si vous avez à gérer une quantité de site sous WordPress et Joomla, ce n’est pas le plus esthétique mais il fait bien le job. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/22e2a92bb56e4b1911a36a601ca7e83897cb8022095b6dee318d161f712b617d? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Very nice tool](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-nice-tool-16/)󠁿 [houba_houbi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/houba_houbi/) Disemba 6, 2019 1 reply A very useful tool to manage the website maintenance and more useful tools. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2ac0727416a3e10f1e59fac58f211a97830835bac26202b51406864c30ead257? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Must Have Maintenance Tool](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/must-have-maintenance-tool/)󠁿 [ftwebsolutions](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ftwebsolutions/) Disemba 6, 2019 1 reply I couldn’t do life without Watchful. Managing my client websites has changed from a laborious task to an easy task. Highly Recommended!! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/42671dfa029a5b8a4ff1e9bff47a1e4b8b340ea3589485b06629a9b1512ce6c0? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Keeps it Simple and Secure](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keeps-it-simple-and-secure/)󠁿 [Mike Zielonka](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikezielonka/) Novemba 26, 2019 1 reply I’ve been a huge ManageWP fan for a long time….don’t get me wrong I’m still a fan but feature development slowed and its become feature bloated. I’ve started using Watchful now for the past few weeks and have been quite impressed. It keeps things simple in the UI/UX but has powerful features for updating, security, GA, etc. It even lets you enter your third party keys for supported plugins on your dashboard so you don’t have to go site by site. Big Fan! Can’t wait to see what they do next. [ Soma maoni yote 6 ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/watchful/reviews/) ## Wachangiaji & Wasanidi “Remote Website Management Plugin by Watchful” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ watchful ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/watchful/) [Translate “Remote Website Management Plugin by Watchful” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/watchful) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/watchful/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/watchful/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/watchful/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/watchful/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### v2.0.9 * Fix a bug that returned wrong file and folder permissions on Windows servers #### v2.0.8 * Fix timeout issues while performing a vulnerability scan #### v2.0.7 * Fix XCloner class instantiation logic #### v2.0.6 * Improve backup restoration * Fix XCloner compatibility #### v2.0.5 * Implement backup restoration #### v2.0.4 * Use the same lock when updating plugins and themes #### v2.0.3 * Add logs to backup processor class * ignore backup folders from other vendors #### v2.0.2 * Add a lock manager to prevent multiple update / install processes at the same time #### v2.0.1 * Filter DB tables to backup on WP related tables #### v2.0.0 * Change minimum PHP version to 7.2 * Implement site backups [See changelog for all versions](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/watchful/trunk/changelog.txt). ## Meta * Version **2.0.9** * Last updated **3 wiki zilizopita** * Active installations **4.000+** * WordPress version ** 4.6 au juu ** * Tested up to **6.9.4** * PHP version ** 7.2 au juu ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/watchful/) * Tags * [backup](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/backup/)[Manage Multiple Sites](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/manage-multiple-sites/) [wordpress dashboard](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wordpress-dashboard/) [WordPress Management](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wordpress-management/) [wordpress manager](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wordpress-manager/) * [Advanced View](https://sw.wordpress.org/plugins/watchful/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 6 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/watchful/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/watchful/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/watchful/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/watchful/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/watchful/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/watchful/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/watchful/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ watchful ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/watchful/) ## Saidia Got something to say? 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