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<p>Pluginventory is the lightweight connector plugin that links your WordPress site to your Pluginventory account. Once installed and paired, it sends a daily signed report so you can see every plugin across every site you manage — all in one place. Rest easy: it can’t change or update your plugins but is only used for reporting.</p>
<p><strong>Perfect for agencies and freelancers managing multiple WordPress sites.</strong></p>
<p>If you manage more than a few WordPress sites, it’s easy to forget which plugins are running where — especially when clients can install anything themselves. And when a site goes down, plugins are almost always the reason: Patchstack’s 2026 security report found that 91% of new WordPress vulnerabilities came from plugins, not themes.</p>
<p>Managing plugins across multiple sites on different servers makes this even harder. Without the right tool, you’re either logging into each one, or finding out something’s wrong when a client calls.</p>
<p>Pluginventory gives you a single dashboard to see every plugin across every WordPress site you manage. Search any plugin instantly. Spot what’s outdated, inactive, or recently added. Know exactly where to act — without logging into a single site or compromising your security.</p>
<p><a href="https://app.pluginventory.com/demo" rel="nofollow ugc">See a live demo</a></p>
<h4>What it does</h4>
<ul>
<li>Sends a daily HMAC-signed report of your installed plugins, their versions, active/inactive status, and available updates — transmitted over HTTPS</li>
<li>Lets you trigger an on-demand report at any time from the Pluginventory dashboard or directly from your WordPress admin</li>
<li>Works on single-site and multisite (subdomain and subdirectory) WordPress installs</li>
<li>Fully supports network-wide activation with a dedicated Network Admin settings screen for bulk pairing and reporting</li>
</ul>
<h4>What it does NOT do</h4>
<ul>
<li>It cannot install, update, activate, deactivate, or delete any plugins on your site</li>
<li>It does not collect or transmit any personally identifiable information</li>
<li>It does not run any code on your site’s front end</li>
</ul>
<h4>How it works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate this plugin on your WordPress site</li>
<li>Log in to your Pluginventory account at app.pluginventory.com</li>
<li>Generate an Install Token from your account page</li>
<li>Paste the token into the Pluginventory settings screen and click Pair Site</li>
<li>Your site is now connected — reports will be sent automatically every day</li>
</ol>
<h4>Security</h4>
<p>All reports are authenticated with an HMAC-SHA256 signature using a secret that is unique to your site and generated at pairing time. Your Pluginventory account verifies this signature before accepting any report. Tokens are stored as WordPress options and are never exposed in your site’s HTML or source. All communication requires HTTPS — non-HTTPS App URLs are blocked.</p>
<h4>Multisite support</h4>
<p>When network-activated, Pluginventory adds a Network Admin > Settings > Pluginventory screen where you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Set shared App URL and Install Token defaults for all subsites</li>
<li>Bulk pair all subsites with one click</li>
<li>Bulk send reports for all subsites</li>
<li>Pair or trigger individual subsites from the same screen</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy / External Service Disclosure</h3>
<p>This plugin transmits data to an external service (Pluginventory) in order to function. This section discloses what data is sent, when, where, and why — as required by WordPress.org plugin guidelines.</p>
<h4>What data is sent</h4>
<p>When a report is triggered (automatically or manually), the following data is transmitted:</p>
<p>Site-level data:</p>
<ul>
<li>Your site’s URL (home URL) and site name</li>
<li>A stable per-install UUID (generated locally, used to identify your WordPress installation)</li>
<li>A timestamp of when the report was generated</li>
<li>PHP version running on your server</li>
<li>WordPress version, and whether a core update is available (including the available version number)</li>
<li>Database server version</li>
<li>WordPress memory limit setting</li>
<li>Environment type (production, staging, development, or local)</li>
<li>Active theme name, version, slug, and whether it is a child theme (including parent theme name if applicable)</li>
<li>On multisite installs: network ID and blog ID</li>
</ul>
<p>Per-plugin data (for each installed plugin):</p>
<ul>
<li>Plugin name, slug, file path, and version</li>
<li>Active or inactive status</li>
<li>Whether an update is available, and the latest available version if applicable</li>
<li>Plugin author name</li>
<li>Minimum PHP and WordPress version requirements declared by the plugin</li>
<li>Plugin URI (homepage URL declared by the plugin)</li>
<li>Approximate install or last-update date (based on file modification time)</li>
</ul>
<p>No usernames, email addresses, passwords, post content, or any personally identifiable information is ever included in reports.</p>
<h4>When data is sent</h4>
<p>Data is only sent after you have completed the pairing process by entering a valid Install Token and clicking Pair Site. Before pairing, no data leaves your site. After pairing, data is sent:</p>
<ul>
<li>Once per day via a scheduled WordPress cron event</li>
<li>Immediately when you click Send Test Report in the settings screen</li>
<li>When triggered remotely from your Pluginventory dashboard using the Remote Trigger Token</li>
</ul>
<h4>Where data is sent</h4>
<p>Data is sent to the Pluginventory service at the App URL you configure during pairing (default: https://app.pluginventory.com). Reports are POSTed to {App URL}/webhook/report and pairing requests are sent to {App URL}/webhook/pair. All requests require HTTPS.</p>
<h4>Third-party service information</h4>
<ul>
<li>Service: Pluginventory</li>
<li>Website: https://pluginventory.com</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://pluginventory.com/privacy</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://pluginventory.com/terms</li>
</ul>


Pluginventory

Know exactly which plugins run across your WordPress portfolio — search any plugin instantly and catch problems before a site breaks.

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<p><strong>Talking Monkey Insights</strong> gives you a site health snapshot in your WordPress admin — and exposes the same data via a secure REST API so you can monitor multiple sites from your own dashboard.</p>
<h4>What you see in WP Admin</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Updates</strong> — count + list of plugins needing updates, theme update count, core update status</li>
<li><strong>Security</strong> — threats blocked, login attempts blocked, last scan results (auto-detected from WordFence or Defender)</li>
<li><strong>Backups</strong> — last backup time, backup count, next scheduled backup (auto-detected from UpdraftPlus or Snapshot)</li>
<li><strong>SSL</strong> — days until expiry with color-coded status</li>
<li><strong>REST API</strong> — endpoint URL + your API key + enable/disable toggle</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why the REST API matters</h4>
<p>If you manage multiple WordPress sites — agency, freelance portfolio, internal IT — built-in WP Site Health is shallow and ManageWP/MainWP require connecting to their proprietary dashboards. This plugin gives you a clean, secure REST endpoint at <code>/wp-json/tm/v1/stats</code> that you can hit from your own dashboard, BI tool, Slack bot, or whatever you already use.</p>
<p>The endpoint requires an API key (auto-generated on activation; regeneratable). No other authentication.</p>
<h4>Multi-ecosystem detection</h4>
<p>Most site monitoring plugins lock you into one ecosystem. This one auto-detects whichever security and backup plugin you have installed:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Security:</strong> WordFence or Defender</li>
<li><strong>Backups:</strong> UpdraftPlus or Snapshot</li>
</ul>
<p>Don’t have either installed? The corresponding section shows a neutral “no supported plugin detected” state. No upsells, no recommendations to install anything.</p>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>This plugin does not send any data outside of your WordPress site without your explicit configuration. No telemetry. No analytics. No phone-home.</p>
<p>The REST API endpoint is enabled by default but can be disabled in settings. When enabled, access requires an API key. The plugin only responds to authenticated requests; it never proactively contacts external services.</p>
<h4>Built by an agency that uses it</h4>
<p>Talking Monkey hosts WordPress sites for our own clients. We built this plugin to monitor them from our internal dashboard — and made it free + open source so other agencies and site owners can do the same. We need it to be trustworthy because we install it on every site we host.</p>


Talking Monkey Insights

Site health snapshot and REST monitoring API. Auto-detects WordFence/Defender, UpdraftPlus/Snapshot. Built for agencies running multiple sites.

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