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.

Upperdog

Emil Gustafsson

<p>This plugin hides update notifications for core, plugin, and theme updates in the WordPress admin. It’s useful for developers and agencies who manage updates through Composer or remote management services like ManageWP, and therefore wants to hide update notices for other users.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Hides WordPress core update notices.</li>
<li>Hides plugin update notices.</li>
<li>Hides theme update notices.</li>
<li>Hides updates link in admin menu and admin bar.</li>
<li>Blocks access to the updates page for users who are not allowed to see updates.</li>
<li>Enables developers to specify which users can see updates.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Worth noting</h3>
<p>This plugin is intended for developers and agencies who have good reasons for hiding the updates, for example if they manage updates through Composer or remote management services like ManageWP. This plugin has been tested with ManageWP and ManageWP needs to connect to the site with a user account that is allowed to see updates.</p>
<h3>Specify allowed users</h3>
<p>By default, the plugin allows the first registered user (the one who installed the site) to see updates. Developers can use the <code>hide_updates_allowed_users</code> filter to specify which users are allowed to see update notifications.</p>
<p>The following example will allow only users with usernames bill and melinda to see updates:</p>
<pre><code>function site_hide_updates_allowed_users() {
    $allowed_users = array( 'charlotte', 'bob' );
    return $allowed_users;
}
add_filter( 'hide_updates_allowed_users', 'site_hide_updates_allowed_users' );
</code></pre>


Hide Updates

This plugin hides update notifications for core, plugin, and theme updates in the WordPress admin for all everyone except specified users.

UpdaWa — Update Watchdog vs Hide Updates