Lens Digital

<p>OutPlug helps WordPress site owners:</p>
<ul>
<li>Detect plugins that haven’t been updated in a configurable number of months.</li>
<li>Highlight outdated plugins in the admin plugin list.</li>
<li>Display stale plugins in a dashboard widget with a red exclamation mark.</li>
<li>Optionally send email alerts to the site administrator when stale plugins are detected.</li>
</ul>
<p>OutPlug is lightweight, safe, and follows WordPress best practices using the Settings API and transients for caching.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to an API to obtain plugin information via the WordPress Plugin API, it’s needed to show the date the plugin was last updated.</p>
<p>It sends the each individual plugin to the API to determine the information either when the page is loaded or when it is refreshed.</p>
<p>More information can be found at https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/</p>
<h3>Arbitrary Section</h3>
<p>Optional configuration file: <code>outplug-config.php</code><br />
– <code>stale_months</code> : integer, months before plugin is considered stale<br />
– <code>send_emails</code>  : boolean, send email alerts to admin<br />
– <code>debug</code>        : boolean, log debug info to PHP error log</p>


OutPlug

OutPlug scans your WordPress site for outdated plugins and alerts you when updates are overdue.

Verdant Studio

<p>Monitor your WordPress websites from a single WordPress installation and keep track of plugin and WordPress version updates, storage, users, maintainers, clients, important notes and so on. You are completely in charge of your data.</p>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<p>Configure a WordPress website as the receiving party (the monitor) and have your public websites synchronize metrics towards it with an interval of your own choosing. Read our <a href="https://www.verdant.studio/documentation/sites-monitor/getting-started/" rel="nofollow ugc">Getting Started guide</a> for more information.</p>
<h3>Is this plugin for me?</h3>
<p>This plugin is for you if you prefer to update your WordPress installations directly and want to keep access to your sites restricted.<br />
Sites Monitor helps you organize your websites, communicate with your clients, and track your sites visually, all without requiring access to any of your sites.</p>
<h3>Free Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Watch WP version:</strong> view the currently installed and latest available WordPress version</li>
<li><strong>Watch plugin updates:</strong> quickly see which plugins are out of date and what their latest version is</li>
<li><strong>Watch site health:</strong> see the general score of the WP Site health</li>
<li><strong>Watch directory sizes:</strong> see the directory sizes of a site, database, uploads and so on</li>
<li><strong>Watch user count:</strong> see how many users a website has</li>
<li><strong>Sort and filter:</strong> sort and filter the list of sites by name, version, plugin status and site health</li>
<li><strong>Search:</strong> lots of sites? no problem! use the search to narrow results</li>
<li><strong>Insights:</strong> scan your website using multiple popular services for insights</li>
<li><strong>Toggle features:</strong> decide what information to display on the general overview</li>
<li><strong>Privacy focused:</strong> be in charge of your website’s data, there is no sharing with any third party</li>
<li><strong>Unlimited sites!</strong> connect as many sites as you want to the data receiving (monitor) site</li>
</ul>
<h3>Premium Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Clients:</strong> add clients/organizations to a site for easy recognition</li>
<li><strong>Maintainers:</strong> add maintainers to a site so that your team knows who is responsible for maintaining the site</li>
<li><strong>Notes:</strong> keep track of things by adding notes to your sites</li>
<li><strong>Send e-mail notifications to clients:</strong> e.g. when you’ve updated their site(s)</li>
<li><strong>Premium support:</strong> contact us for assistance</li>
</ul>
<h3>Translation Ready</h3>
<p>Speak another language? You can help make Sites Monitor available in your language! Join our <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/sites-monitor/" rel="nofollow ugc">translation project</a> on WordPress.org and contribute to translating the plugin for the global community.</p>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>You can find the <a href="https://www.verdant.studio/documentation/sites-monitor/" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a> on our site.</p>


Sites Monitor


I just love the fact this plugin is privacy focussed and gives you a clear overview of wanted statistics!


It does what you expect, good plugin.

Effortlessly monitor your websites from your own WordPress installation. Keep an eye on updates, site health, WP versions, and more.

OutPlug vs Sites Monitor