Helmut Wandl

<p>Peak Publisher turns your WordPress site into your own plugin update server. It’s built for agencies, product teams, and developers who want to create and ship their own custom plugins and want full control over distribution, versioning, and updates — without relying on third‑party services.</p>
<p>With a modern, task‑focused admin UI, you can add new plugins and releases via drag & drop, validate packages automatically, and publish or draft releases with one click. Your client plugins point to your Peak Publisher site via a standard <code>Update URI</code>, so WordPress will discover and install updates directly from you.</p>
<p><strong>With this solution, you can have your own self-hosted plugin update server in just 5 minutes, allowing you to centrally manage your plugins and deploy updates with incredible ease.</strong></p>
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<h3>❇️ COMING SOON ❇️</h3>
<p><strong>Managing and Updating wp.org Plugins</strong></p>
<p>In just a few weeks, Peak Publisher will let you manage plugins hosted on wordpress.org the same way you already manage self-hosted ones. Drag and drop your plugin folder onto Peak Publisher, and everything else is handled automatically — no more SVN.</p>
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<h3>KEY FEATURES</h3>
<p>🚀 <strong>Clean admin UI with a guided “Add New Plugin” flow</strong><br />
A short and focused user interface guides you through the entire process to deploy your first plugin with amazing ease within minutes.</p>
<p>☝️ <strong>Drag & drop a ZIP or simply the whole plugin folder</strong><br />
You can drop a ZIP file, but the easiest way is to simply drop the entire raw plugin folder or the folder’s contents. The ZIP file will then be created automatically for you.</p>
<p>✅ <strong>Automatic validation: headers, version, Update URI</strong><br />
Peak Publisher automatically checks each new release for required headers, proper semantic versioning, consistent update URIs, and more to ensure everything is correct.</p>
<p>🧽🫧 <strong>Auto‑cleanup of workspace artifacts (e.g. .git, node_modules)</strong><br />
To provide clean packages and reduce package size, Peak Publisher automatically removes development files and operating system artifacts from your uploads using patterns that you can configure. (optional)</p>
<p>🔐 <strong>Optional restriction via IP/domain whitelist</strong><br />
Packages are stored in a private, server-protected directory with no direct web access. By default, access via the API is still possible from anywhere. Using IP or domain whitelisting, you can restrict access to update metadata and downloads.</p>
<h4>Some More Features</h4>
<p>📈 <strong>Analytics:</strong> You can always see how many active installations there are.<br />
📄 <strong>Readme.txt:</strong> Provide your users with a description, changelog, tested up to and more.</p>
<h3>HOW IT WORKS</h3>
<ol>
<li><strong>Install Peak Publisher</strong><br />
on a dedicated WordPress site (recommended)<br />
or any site you control.</li>
<li><strong>Follow the “Add New Plugin” flow</strong><br />
add the <strong><code>Update URI</code></strong> header and the bootstrap code to your plugin.</li>
<li><strong>Upload your plugin</strong><br />
drag & drop the zipped plugin or the plugin folder.</li>
<li><strong>Peak Publisher validates your upload</strong><br />
and shows you the validation result.</li>
<li><strong>Click “Add new plugin”</strong><br />
to finish the process.</li>
<li><strong>Drop your next release with increased version number</strong><br />
once you have one ready.</li>
</ol>
<h3>WHO IS IT FOR?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Agencies that deliver custom plugins to multiple clients</li>
<li>Product teams with private/proprietary extensions</li>
<li>Creative plugin developers who want to deploy updates quickly and easily</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>Peak Publisher does not collect personal data, does not track usage, and does not use third‑party services. All files are stored on your server in a protected directory.</p>


Peak Publisher

Self‑host your plugin repository. Manage releases, serve updates, and streamline your workflow — all inside WordPress.

Pascale

<p><a href="https://hitkeep.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">HitKeep Analytics</a> connects WordPress to a self-hosted or cloud HitKeep instance. It injects the normal <code>hk.js</code> tracker from your HitKeep instance and keeps data flowing through the core HitKeep ingest pipeline.</p>
<p>The plugin does not add a separate analytics backend, database, queue, or third-party service. It only loads the tracker from the HitKeep instance you configure.</p>
<h3>Privacy-first web analytics for WordPress</h3>
<p>HitKeep is built for teams that want useful web analytics without adopting a heavy analytics stack. The WordPress plugin keeps setup simple: choose your HitKeep instance, save the settings, and the plugin loads the first-party tracker on public pages.</p>
<p>Logged-in WordPress users are skipped by default, so administrators and editors do not pollute public traffic reports. Browser Do Not Track is respected by default.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>EU Cloud, US Cloud, and self-hosted HitKeep options.</li>
<li>Logged-in WordPress users are skipped by default.</li>
<li>Do Not Track is respected by default.</li>
<li>Pageview tracking through HitKeep’s normal <code>hk.js</code> tracker.</li>
<li>Built-in HitKeep automatic events for outbound links, file downloads, and form submissions.</li>
<li>Optional Web Vitals reporting for LCP, INP, CLS, FCP, and TTFB.</li>
<li>Self-hosted URLs may include a path prefix, such as <code>https://www.example.net/hitkeep</code>.</li>
<li>Clear opt-outs for sendBeacon delivery, route changes, outbound links, downloads, and forms.</li>
<li>Shortcut to open the configured HitKeep instance from the settings page.</li>
<li>Snippet preview so site owners can see which tracker attributes will be emitted.</li>
</ul>
<h3>What the plugin does not do</h3>
<ul>
<li>It does not set analytics cookies.</li>
<li>It does not create WordPress analytics tables.</li>
<li>It does not require a tag manager.</li>
<li>It does not load the tracker from a third-party CDN.</li>
<li>It does not collect form field values, request bodies, link text, or URL query strings through automatic events.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third-party service connection</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to HitKeep. Depending on your settings, it loads JavaScript from and sends analytics data to one of these HitKeep hosts:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>https://cloud.hitkeep.eu</code></li>
<li><code>https://cloud.hitkeep.com</code></li>
<li>Your own self-hosted HitKeep URL</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://hitkeep.com/legal/terms-of-service/" rel="nofollow ugc">HitKeep Cloud terms</a></p>
<p><a href="https://hitkeep.com/legal/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">HitKeep Cloud privacy policy</a></p>
<p>Self-hosted installations are controlled by your own HitKeep instance and infrastructure.</p>
<h3>Source code</h3>
<p>The <a href="https://github.com/PascaleBeier/hitkeep" rel="nofollow ugc">main HitKeep project</a> is available on GitHub.</p>


HitKeep Analytics

Adds the first-party HitKeep tracker to WordPress without analytics cookies, third-party CDNs, or a tag manager.

Peak Publisher vs HitKeep Analytics