formstatus

<p><a href="https://formstatus.co" rel="nofollow ugc">FormStatus</a> is a complete, easy-to-deploy solution for testing your webforms. Comprehensive end-to-end verification tracks forms from page load and form submission through to email notification receipt.</p>
<p>FormStatus will automatically test your forms daily as well as after every update to your site plugins and themes, eliminating the need for manual human checks and giving you peace of mind that your forms are running smoothly.</p>
<p>This companion plugin requires a <a href="https://formstatus.co" rel="nofollow ugc">FormStatus</a> account to enable testing functionality.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin sends information to the <a href="https://app.formstatus.co" rel="nofollow ugc">FormStatus API</a> to notify your account about updates to your site’s core WP, plugins, or themes. This information allows us to trigger real-time tests during the most vulnerable moments after your site’s software has been updated. We do not collect any information about your site’s users or visitors. Usage of this data is governed by the FormStatus <a href="https://formstatus.co/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">terms of service</a> and <a href="https://formstatus.co/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">privacy policy</a>.</p>
<h4>Integrations</h4>
<p>FormStatus works seamlessly with major webform plugins including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Gravity Forms</li>
<li>WPForms</li>
<li>Contact Form 7</li>
<li>Ninja Forms</li>
<li>Fluent Forms</li>
<li>SureForms</li>
<li>WSForm</li>
<li>HappyForms</li>
<li>WeForms</li>
<li>FormidableForms</li>
<li>Forminator</li>
<li>Page builders Divi, Elementor, Breakdance, and Bricks</li>
</ul>


FormStatus Form Monitoring

Fully-automated monitoring via FormStatus ensures you're the first to know when your webforms break.

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.

FormStatus Form Monitoring vs GWD Connect