Papin Schipper

QreativeWeb

<p>Companion Auto Update is a powerful and completely free plugin that allows you to manage all the updates on your WordPress site. Our aim is to give you the best control over these updates and stay in the know at all times.</p>
<p>We understand that you might not always be able to check if your WordPress site has any updates that need to be installed. Especially when you maintain multiple websites keeping them up-to-date can be a lot of work. This plugin can help you with that. We’ll keep your site up-to-date and keep you posted about what’s happening and notify you when we need your help with something.</p>
<p>If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! <a href="https://codeermeneer.nl/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">Suggest a Feature</a></p>
<h4>Main features</h4>
<ol>
<li>Auto-updating for plugins, themes, core and translation files</li>
<li>Set at what time you wish to update</li>
<li>Filter plugins and themes to not be updated</li>
<li>E-mail notifications about old software, pending updates and completed updates</li>
<li>An update log with all updates</li>
<li>Option to delay automatic updates with an x number of days</li>
</ol>
<h4>Full control over everything</h4>
<p>Full control, that’s what this plugin is all about. With this plugin you can enable (or disable) automatic updating for plugins, themes, WordPress core updates (both minor and major can be changed separately) and for translation files. Don’t want to run the updater for all plugins? Don’t worry, just disable auto updating for the plugins you’d like to skip and we can even notify you when there’s an update for these plugins so you can go and update them yourself.</p>
<h4>Scheduling</h4>
<p>By default we’ll check for updates twice a day but you can change this to several different options if you’d like. When choosing to update on a daily basis you can even select at what time you’d like it to run. Besides the updaters you can also schedule te notifications, want to update every hour but only recieve notifications once a day? No problem!<br />
Sometimes developers will push an update that will cause errors on your site, they’ll often fix it within a day but if the updater has run in the mean time it can cause all kinds of issues. Now you can choose to delay updates with an x number of days to prevent this from happening.</p>
<h4>Know what’s happening</h4>
<p>We want you to know what’s happening on your website. This plugin offers settings for various email notifications. We can send you an email when an update is available, when a plugin has been updated or when wordpress has been updated.<br />
But if you don’t want to recieve emails about this you can still log in and view the changelog to see what happened.</p>


Companion Auto Update

Manage all updates on your WordPress site. Stay in the know with several optional e-mail notifications and logs. For free.

Amit Biswas

<p>Plugiva ClientGuard simplifies and protects the WordPress admin by reducing risky operations and helping prevent unintended changes.</p>
<p>It adds practical guardrails to sensitive areas by reducing access to risky operations and settings that are rarely needed in day-to-day site management.</p>
<p>With one-click Client Mode, you can protect plugins, themes, and critical settings while keeping the admin area clean and usable.</p>
<p>You can also lock Client Mode via configuration to prevent it from being disabled from the admin interface:</p>
<pre><code>define( 'PCGD_LOCK_CLIENT_MODE', true );
</code></pre>
<p>This can be added in wp-config.php or defined programmatically in custom code.</p>
<p>When enabled, Client Mode is forced on and cannot be turned off from the dashboard, ensuring consistent protection.</p>
<p>Client Mode also governs WordPress AI and Connector administration areas when available.</p>
<p>Lock Appearance Management restricts Appearance-related administration, including Menus, Widgets, Customizer, and Site Editor access.</p>
<p>Instead of blocking access aggressively, ClientGuard applies smart guardrails, allowing users to work freely without breaking important parts of your site.</p>
<p>ClientGuard is ideal for:</p>
<ul>
<li>Site owners managing their own WordPress site</li>
<li>Developers handing off sites to clients</li>
<li>Teams that want a simplified and safer admin experience</li>
</ul>
<h3>Client Mode</h3>
<p>Enable Client Mode to instantly apply safe defaults:</p>
<ul>
<li>Restricts plugin installation, deletion, and editing</li>
<li>Prevents theme switching and theme management changes</li>
<li>Restricts Appearance management (Menus, Widgets, Customizer, and Site Editor)</li>
<li>Protects critical site settings and homepage assignments</li>
<li>Governs WordPress AI and Connector administration areas when available</li>
<li>Hides selected administrative areas to simplify the dashboard</li>
<li>Protects important content from unintended edits</li>
<li>Hides the ACF admin area automatically when ACF is active</li>
</ul>
<h3>Individual Protections</h3>
<p>If Client Mode is not enabled, each protection can be managed independently.</p>
<ul>
<li>Lock Theme Switching – Prevents switching, installing, deleting, and editing themes.</li>
<li>Lock Appearance Management – Restricts Appearance management capabilities, including Menus, Widgets, Customizer, and Site Editor access.</li>
<li>Lock Plugin Installation – Prevents installing, deleting, and editing plugins.</li>
<li>Allow Plugin Activation – Allows administrators to activate or deactivate installed plugins while installation protections remain in place.</li>
<li>Protect Site URLs – Protects selected site configuration areas such as permalink management.</li>
<li>Content Protection – Prevents editing of selected pages.</li>
<li>Menu Hiding – Removes selected administrative menus from the dashboard interface.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>One-click Client Mode for instant admin protection</li>
<li>Optional configuration lock for Client Mode</li>
<li>WordPress AI and Connector governance support</li>
<li>Compatible with modern WordPress operational workflows</li>
<li>ACF-aware administration controls</li>
<li>Safe defaults with no changes on activation</li>
<li>Clean uninstall with no leftover settings</li>
</ul>
<h3>What This Plugin Is NOT</h3>
<ul>
<li>Not a security or firewall plugin</li>
<li>Not a role or permission editor</li>
<li>Not designed to block administrators entirely</li>
</ul>
<p>Plugiva ClientGuard focuses on preventing mistakes, not enforcing restrictions.</p>
<h3>Developer Hooks</h3>
<p>Plugiva ClientGuard includes developer-friendly hooks for customizing certain behaviors, such as modifying admin notice messages. Additional hooks may be introduced in future versions.</p>


Plugiva ClientGuard – Safe WordPress for Clients

Simplify the WordPress admin and help prevent unintended changes with safe defaults and Client Mode.

Companion Auto Update vs Plugiva ClientGuard – Safe WordPress for Clients