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.

Gary Pendergast

Advanced Automatic Updates adds extra options to WordPress’ built-in Automatic Updates feature. On top of security updates, it also supports installing major releases, plugins, themes, or even regular SVN checkouts!
If you’re working on a WordPress Multisite install, it will properly restrict the options page to your Network Admin.
While this will be useful for the vast majority of sites, please exercise caution, particularly if you have any custom themes or plugins running on your site.

Advanced Automatic Updates

Nice Plugin

Adds extra options to WordPress' built-in Automatic Updates feature.

UpdaWa — Update Watchdog vs Advanced Automatic Updates