Ciprian Craciun

<p>This plugin disable plugins, themes and core updates for WordPress and also the notifications.</p>
<p>It’s <em>very</em> important that you keep your WordPress theme, core and plugins up to date. If you don’t, your blog or website could<br />
be <strong>susceptible to security vulnerabilities</strong> or performance issues.</p>
<p>If you use this plugin, make sure you keep yourself up to date with new releases of your active WordPress version, plugins<br />
and themes and update them as new versions are released (simply by deactivating this plugin for a short time).</p>


Disable Plugins, Themes and Core Updates

This plugin disable plugins, themes and core updates for WordPress and also the notifications.

graphicwebdesigninc

<p>GWD Connect is a comprehensive WordPress site management plugin built by <a href="https://www.graphicwebdesign.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Graphic Web Design, Inc.</a> It provides automatic backups, log monitoring, uptime tracking, automatic updates, and a powerful migration REST API — all from your WordPress admin.</p>
<p><strong>To activate the Backup, Log Monitoring, and Uptime dashboards, please <a href="https://gwd.app/support" rel="nofollow ugc">contact Graphic Web Design, Inc.</a> for API activation.</strong></p>
<h4>Full Backup Engine</h4>
<ul>
<li>Database backups via mysqldump with PDO fallback</li>
<li>Filesystem archiving via tar with PharData fallback</li>
<li>GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son) retention policy — daily, weekly, monthly tiers</li>
<li>Real-time AJAX progress bar during backup</li>
<li>SHA-256 integrity verification for all backup archives</li>
<li>Large file and directory detection with customizable exclusions</li>
<li>Secure backup download from WordPress admin</li>
<li>WP Cron scheduled automatic backups</li>
<li>Optional sync with backup.gwd.app dashboard</li>
</ul>
<h4>Log Monitoring</h4>
<ul>
<li>Auto-discovers debug.log, PHP error log, and server error logs</li>
<li>Multi-format log parsing (WordPress, Apache, Nginx, syslog)</li>
<li>Pattern normalization and deduplication — groups similar errors</li>
<li>Hourly distribution analysis with visual bar chart</li>
<li>Severity classification: fatal, error, warning, notice</li>
<li>Smart file position tracking for efficient re-reads</li>
<li>Log file size alerts — configurable email notifications when logs exceed a threshold</li>
<li>Clear individual log files from admin</li>
<li>Optional sync with logs.gwd.app dashboard</li>
</ul>
<h4>Uptime Monitoring</h4>
<ul>
<li>Real-time uptime status and response time tracking</li>
<li>SSL certificate expiry monitoring</li>
<li>Incident history with start, end, and duration</li>
<li>24-hour response time chart with native Canvas rendering</li>
<li>30-day uptime percentage calculation</li>
<li>Email notifications on confirmed downtime and recovery</li>
<li>Optional sync with up.gwd.app dashboard</li>
</ul>
<h4>Auto Updates</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically updates WordPress core (minor and major versions)</li>
<li>Automatically updates plugins, themes, and translations</li>
<li>Email notifications when plugins are updated</li>
</ul>
<h4>Migration REST API (GWD Connector)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Swap the entire WordPress filesystem from a tar.gz or zip archive</li>
<li>Patch specific directories without wiping the rest (partial deployment)</li>
<li>Write individual files remotely</li>
<li>Swap the entire database from a SQL dump</li>
<li>Serialization-aware URL search-replace across all database tables</li>
<li>Scan and fix wp-config.php for hardcoded URLs</li>
<li>Full migration orchestration combining all steps</li>
</ul>
<p>All API endpoints require authentication via the X-GWD-Key header. Manage your API key from the GWD Connect settings page.</p>


GWD Connect

This plugin helps keep my website secure and everything updated.

Automatic security updates

Automatic backups, log monitoring with size alerts, uptime tracking, auto-updates, and a bulk migration REST API for WordPress.

Disable Plugins, Themes and Core Updates vs GWD Connect