Designer Solutions

<p>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.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>REST API</strong> — <code>GET /wp-json/updawa/v1/status</code> returns a full JSON snapshot protected by a per-site Bearer token.</li>
<li><strong>Status dashboard</strong> — stat cards showing pending update counts, plugin/theme totals, and SSL days remaining at a glance.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Core, SSL, Plugins & Themes</strong> — each section in its own card with colour-coded badges (up to date / update available / expiring / expired).</li>
<li><strong>SSL certificate monitoring</strong> — connects to your site’s HTTPS endpoint and reports the certificate expiry date and days remaining.</li>
<li><strong>Bearer token management</strong> — generate, copy, or revoke the 256-bit cryptographically random token from the Token API tab.</li>
<li><strong>QR code</strong> — encodes site name, API URL, and token for instant import into a mobile monitoring app.</li>
<li><strong>Android app</strong> <em>(coming soon)</em> — 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><strong>JSON view</strong> — pretty-printed full API payload with a one-click Copy button.</li>
<li><strong>Zero external dependencies</strong> — the QR code library is bundled; no data is sent to external servers.</li>
</ul>
<h3>REST API</h3>
<p>The endpoint is read-only and requires a valid Bearer token:</p>
<pre><code>curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
     https://example.com/wp-json/updawa/v1/status
</code></pre>
<p>Example response:</p>
<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.

Papin Schipper

QreativeWeb

<p>Companion Auto Update is a powerful and completely free plugin that allows you to manage all the updates on your WordPress site. Our aim is to give you the best control over these updates and stay in the know at all times.</p>
<p>We understand that you might not always be able to check if your WordPress site has any updates that need to be installed. Especially when you maintain multiple websites keeping them up-to-date can be a lot of work. This plugin can help you with that. We’ll keep your site up-to-date and keep you posted about what’s happening and notify you when we need your help with something.</p>
<p>If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! <a href="https://codeermeneer.nl/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">Suggest a Feature</a></p>
<h4>Main features</h4>
<ol>
<li>Auto-updating for plugins, themes, core and translation files</li>
<li>Set at what time you wish to update</li>
<li>Filter plugins and themes to not be updated</li>
<li>E-mail notifications about old software, pending updates and completed updates</li>
<li>An update log with all updates</li>
<li>Option to delay automatic updates with an x number of days</li>
</ol>
<h4>Full control over everything</h4>
<p>Full control, that’s what this plugin is all about. With this plugin you can enable (or disable) automatic updating for plugins, themes, WordPress core updates (both minor and major can be changed separately) and for translation files. Don’t want to run the updater for all plugins? Don’t worry, just disable auto updating for the plugins you’d like to skip and we can even notify you when there’s an update for these plugins so you can go and update them yourself.</p>
<h4>Scheduling</h4>
<p>By default we’ll check for updates twice a day but you can change this to several different options if you’d like. When choosing to update on a daily basis you can even select at what time you’d like it to run. Besides the updaters you can also schedule te notifications, want to update every hour but only recieve notifications once a day? No problem!<br />
Sometimes developers will push an update that will cause errors on your site, they’ll often fix it within a day but if the updater has run in the mean time it can cause all kinds of issues. Now you can choose to delay updates with an x number of days to prevent this from happening.</p>
<h4>Know what’s happening</h4>
<p>We want you to know what’s happening on your website. This plugin offers settings for various email notifications. We can send you an email when an update is available, when a plugin has been updated or when wordpress has been updated.<br />
But if you don’t want to recieve emails about this you can still log in and view the changelog to see what happened.</p>


Companion Auto Update

Manage all updates on your WordPress site. Stay in the know with several optional e-mail notifications and logs. For free.

UpdaWa — Update Watchdog vs Companion Auto Update