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.

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This plugin completely disables the theme, plugin and core update checking system in WordPress. The plugin prevents WordPress from 
checking for updates including cronjobs, and prevents any notifications from being displayed.
It’s very important that you keep your WordPress theme, core and plugins up to date! If you don’t, your blog or website could 
be susceptible to security vulnerabilities or performance issues.
If you use this plugin, make sure you keep yourself up to date with new releases of your active WordPress version, plugins 
and themes and update them as new versions are released (simply by deactivating this plugin for a short time).
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Disable All WordPress Updates

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Set yourself up a separate Wordpress instance with the free MainWP plugin, and use that for managing all your site updates automatically, manually, or a mix from there instead.




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Disables the theme, plugin and core update checking, the related cronjobs, plugin/theme update health checks and notification system.

UpdaWa — Update Watchdog vs Disable All WordPress Updates