Designer Solutions

UpdaWa gives you a single place to see everything that needs attention on a WordPress site: pending core, plugin, and theme updates plus the SSL certificate expiry — all visible in the admin panel and exposed through a secure REST API endpoint you can poll from any monitoring tool.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>REST API — <code>GET /wp-json/updawa/v1/status</code> returns a full JSON snapshot protected by a per-site Bearer token.</li>
<li>Status dashboard — stat cards showing pending update counts, plugin/theme totals, and SSL days remaining at a glance.</li>
<li>WordPress Core, SSL, Plugins & Themes — each section in its own card with colour-coded badges (up to date / update available / expiring / expired).</li>
<li>SSL certificate monitoring — connects to your site’s HTTPS endpoint and reports the certificate expiry date and days remaining.</li>
<li>Bearer token management — generate, copy, or revoke the 256-bit cryptographically random token from the Token API tab.</li>
<li>QR code — encodes site name, API URL, and token for instant import into a mobile monitoring app.</li>
<li>Android app (coming soon) — a dedicated mobile app for monitoring update and SSL status across multiple WordPress sites, with push notifications when updates are available or certificates are about to expire.</li>
<li>JSON view — pretty-printed full API payload with a one-click Copy button.</li>
<li>Zero external dependencies — the QR code library is bundled; no data is sent to external servers.</li>
</ul>
<h3>REST API</h3>
The endpoint is read-only and requires a valid Bearer token:
<pre><code>curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
 https://example.com/wp-json/updawa/v1/status
</code></pre>
Example response:
<pre><code>{
 "generated_at": "2026-04-14T09:10:41+00:00",
 "wordpress": {
 "current_version": "6.9.4",
 "update_available": false,
 "new_version": null,
 "package_url": null
 },
 "plugins": [ ... ],
 "themes": [ ... ],
 "ssl_expires_at": "2026-07-05T01:48:00+00:00"
}
</code></pre>

UpdaWa — Update Watchdog

Monitors WordPress core, plugin, theme, and SSL certificate status via a clean admin dashboard and a Bearer-token-secured REST API.

Minor

Today it’s really important to have everything up to date (security, compatibility, new features and performance). Default WordPress setting is automatically install just minor core updates and languages.
No settings required. Just install and active this plugin and your WordPress (including plugins and themes) will be up to date.
You can focus on the other things than updating your WordPress, save your time!
<h4>What will be automatically updated too?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Core</li>
<li>Themes</li>
<li>Plugins</li>
</ul>

Auto Updates

The best one of auto update plugins. If you don't agree with me - write a review, please! :-)

Simple, light, easy and no ads

Does exactly what is needed without any extra bloat. Thanks!

Perfect

I checked the code of this plugin before installing it: it does what it says and absolutely nothing else.

It basically just adds the minimum code to enable the auto-updates within WordPress. There is absolutely nothing else in there, which is awesome.

Install this plugin and rest easy it's not bogging down your website like 99% of plugins out there.

Extremely Lightweight and Does What it Says

Let WordPress to automatically update his core, plugins and themes - silently in the background.

UpdaWa — Update Watchdog vs Auto Updates