What’s new in Siteward

v0.9 · July 2026

• New Siteward is now on WordPress.org, install the free dashboard straight from your WordPress admin (Plugins, Add New, search “Siteward”).
• Improved Premium plugin updates, licensed plugins like Perfmatters and ACF Pro are now detected and updated across your whole fleet, not just sites you had recently opened.
• Improved Fleet Plugins (Pro), a redesigned sites sidebar to pick exactly which sites to target, plus a per-plugin dropdown that lists every site a plugin is on, each with a one-click login for licence-key updates.
• Improved Faster bulk actions, updates and syncs now run as many sites in parallel as your Concurrent requests setting allows.
• Improved Sync all now retries any site that briefly dropped offline, so a stale connection self-heals on the next sync.
• Improved Clearer, larger search icon on the sites overview.

v0.8 · July 2026

• New Fleet plugin management (Pro), activate, deactivate, uninstall or install plugins across selected sites at once from an uploaded ZIP (including premium plugins), with filters and live progress.
• New Guided Zapier setup (Pro), a “Send test” button pushes a sample alert to your webhook so you can build your Zap from real received data.
• Improved Resync all sites in one click from Settings, plus a faster, cached Fleet Plugins view that refreshes only the sites you change.

v0.7 · June 2026

• New Backup & WP-Cron health monitoring and alerts are now included free, no / stale / failing backups, failing cron, recovery mode, auto-paused plugins and Site Health issues are all watched on the free dashboard.
• New One-click login to any managed site’s WordPress admin, no stored passwords, opens in a new tab.
• New Site Health detail: see each critical issue by name on the dashboard, plus a one-click jump straight into the site’s own Site Health screen.
• New Sync all, refresh your whole fleet at once with a live progress modal.
• New Bad licence(s) flag, sites with premium plugins that can’t auto-update (missing/expired licence) are tagged, so failed updates don’t look like bugs.
• Fixed Connection reliability, sites no longer get stuck “not connected” after a momentary timeout; they automatically retry and self-heal.
• Fixed Accurate “last sync” and relative times across the dashboard (timezone handling).

v0.6 · June 2026

• New Free + Pro editions: a free dashboard for unlimited monitoring, including backup & cron health, with a Pro upgrade adding SSL & domain-expiry monitoring and Zapier.
• New Licence activation and self-hosted Pro updates delivered straight to your dashboard.
• New Critical-error detection, catches fatal errors, the WordPress “critical error” white screen, recovery mode and auto-paused plugins, and names the culprit.

v0.5 · June 2026

• New Fleet-wide updates: see every pending core, plugin and theme update in one place and bulk-update by plugin or by site, with a live progress modal.
• New UpdraftPlus backup visibility with health flags for missing, stale and failing backups.
• Improved At-a-glance health badges across the overview, colour-coded by severity.

v0.4 · June 2026

• New Uptime monitoring with retry-then-alert to avoid false alarms, and instant notifications by email and Zapier.
• New Secure, self-hosted connection between each site and your dashboard, every request signed with an OpenSSL keypair and replay protection.

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Looking for what’s coming next? See the roadmap.