Plugins / Siteward
One dashboard for every WordPress site you look after.
I built Siteward because the tools meant to manage a fleet of client sites kept charging per site, slowing down as the list grew, and going quiet exactly when something broke. It is self-hosted, free for unlimited sites, and on WordPress.org for any agency or freelancer to use.
01 Unlimited sites
Monitor and update as many sites as you look after, free. No per-site fees, ever.
02 Self-hosted
Runs on your own WordPress install. Client data never routes through someone else's cloud.
03 Names the culprit
Critical errors caught within minutes, with the plugin that broke the site named.
04 Fast at scale
A parallel engine checks a fleet of 200+ sites in around ten seconds.
Why I built it
The parts of managing WordPress at scale that actually hurt.
01
Per-site fees
Cloud tools charge around $1 to $2 per site, per month, for each add-on. At 200 sites that is thousands a year. Siteward monitors unlimited sites free, and Pro is one flat price.
02
Dashboards that crawl
Other managers bog down past about a hundred sites, with manual sync buttons and tuning just to stay usable. Siteward checks the whole fleet in parallel, in seconds.
03
Backups that fail quietly
You usually find out a backup stopped working when a restore fails. Siteward flags missing, stale and failing backups before you need them.
04
Updates that break sites
A routine plugin update causes a white screen and nobody notices until the client calls. Siteward spots it within minutes and tells you which plugin did it.
What it does
The essentials, done properly.
Every feature earns its place. No dashboard full of things you will never use.
Free
Uptime monitoring
Parallel checks across the whole fleet, retry before alerting so false alarms do not wake you, and notifications by email or Zapier.
Free
Fleet-wide updates
Every pending core, plugin and theme update in one place. Select sites and bulk update by plugin or by site, with live progress.
Free
Vulnerability monitoring
Every plugin, theme and core version with a known vulnerability, and the version that fixes it. No API key, and nothing about your sites leaves your server.
Free
Critical-error detection
Fatal errors, white screens, recovery mode and auto-paused plugins, caught within minutes with the plugin or theme responsible named.
Free
Backup visibility
UpdraftPlus status at a glance, with flags for missing, stale or failing backups. Sites with server-level backups can be marked as covered.
Free
Tags and segmentation
Label sites by client or server, filter the fleet and scope bulk actions, so you can update everything except the sites tagged do not touch.
Pro
SSL and domain expiry
Watches every certificate and domain registration and warns you days before either one lapses.
Pro
White-label client reports
Branded monthly reports that make your maintenance work visible, so care plans stick. No per-site fee.
Pricing
Unlimited sites free. One flat price for Pro.
Covering 200 sites with per-site cloud tools runs somewhere between US$5,000 and US$21,000 a year. Siteward Agency covers the same 200 for US$129.
Free
US$0
The full monitoring core, for as many sites as you have.
- Unlimited sites
- Uptime monitoring and email alerts
- Fleet-wide updates
- Vulnerability monitoring
- Critical-error detection
- Backup and cron health
Agency
US$129 / year
For when you want the fleet watched, not just listed. Also US$15 a month, and both start with a 14-day free trial.
- Everything in Free
- White-label client reports
- Fleet plugin management
- Dynamic tags by server or version
- SSL and domain expiry alerts
- One alert when a whole server drops
Lifetime
US$399 once
Every Agency feature for a one-off payment. Early-bird pricing, normally US$499.
- All Agency Pro features
- One-time payment
- Lifetime updates
- Priority support
Getting started
Three steps to a managed fleet.
01
Install the dashboard
Install the free Siteward plugin from WordPress.org on one WordPress site. That site becomes your control panel.
02
Connect your sites
Install the lightweight Siteward Child plugin on each site you manage and paste in its secure connection key.
03
Monitor and update
Watch uptime, run bulk updates and get an alert the moment something needs you. The first site takes about two minutes.
Questions
About Siteward.
Why did you build it?
Because looking after a fleet of WordPress sites should not get more expensive with every client you win. The tools meant to help kept charging per site, slowing down at scale and going quiet when an update broke something, so I built the lean version. OmnisWP is the name I publish my plugins under.
Is it a good MainWP alternative?
Yes. It is the same core idea, many WordPress sites managed from one self-hosted dashboard, deliberately stripped of bloat, with a parallel engine that stays fast at scale and no paid-extension sprawl.
Does it charge per site?
Never. Unlimited sites are free, and Pro is one flat price, unlike per-site cloud tools that bill around $1 to $2 per site per month for each feature.
Where is my data stored?
Entirely on your own dashboard site. There is no third-party cloud in the middle. Each site is linked with an OpenSSL keypair and every request between them is signed.
Will it tell me when an update breaks a site?
Yes. It detects server errors, the WordPress critical error screen, recovery mode and auto-paused plugins, and alerts you by email or Zapier with the culprit named.
Do I need it if you host my site?
No. Siteward is for people who look after a fleet of sites themselves, mostly agencies and freelancers. If your site is on my managed hosting, keeping it patched and watched is my job, not yours.
Get Siteward
Start free at omniswp.com.
Unlimited sites on the free plugin, or a 14-day trial of Pro. Your first site is connected in about two minutes.