Resources
WordPress Fleet Management Guides
Practical how-tos and playbooks for agencies and freelancers managing many WordPress sites.
- Siteward Is Now on WordPress.org: Manage Unlimited WordPress Sites, Free
Siteward, the lean self-hosted dashboard for managing many WordPress sites, is now free on WordPress.org: uptime monitoring, fleet updates, backups and critical-error alerts, with no per-site fees. - How to Update Plugins Across Multiple WordPress Sites (5 Methods Compared)
Five ways to update plugins across many WordPress sites compared, manual, WP-CLI, host tools, and management dashboards, plus a safe stage-and-batch workflow that prevents the white-screen surprise. - The WordPress Maintenance Checklist for Agencies (2026)
A practical, copyable WordPress maintenance checklist for agencies and freelancers, broken into daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly tasks across updates, backups, uptime, security, performance, SEO and reporting. - How to Monitor WordPress Uptime (Free Methods and at Scale)
A practical guide to monitoring WordPress uptime, free tools, sensible check intervals and retries, alert routing, and catching critical errors on sites that look “up.” - A WordPress Update Broke a Client Site, How to Detect and Fix It Fast
When a WordPress update broke a client site, speed is everything. Here’s how to detect the critical error fleet-wide before the client calls, pinpoint the culprit update, roll back safely, and stop it happening again. - Managing 100+ WordPress Sites Without Losing Your Mind
A practical playbook for managing multiple WordPress sites at fleet scale: centralised dashboards, standardised stacks, update cadences, monitoring, backups, and where automation actually pays off. - Self-Hosted vs Cloud WordPress Management: Cost, Control and Data
An honest comparison of self-hosted WordPress management (MainWP, Siteward, InfiniteWP) versus cloud dashboards (ManageWP, WP Umbrella) across cost, control, data ownership and reliability, with a worked cost example at 50, 100 and 200 sites. - How Much Should You Charge for a WordPress Maintenance Plan?
Real benchmark ranges and tier tables for WordPress maintenance plan pricing, what to include at basic, standard and premium, plus how to protect your margins. - The Real Cost of Per-Site WordPress Management at Scale
Most cloud WordPress management tools bill ~$1-$9 per site per month, plus add-ons. Here is the worked math at 25, 50, 100 and 200 sites, and when it quietly becomes thousands a year. - How to Bulk-Update WordPress Plugins Safely (Without Breaking Sites)
Updating plugins in bulk is fast but risky. Here’s a backup-first, canary-then-batch workflow that keeps sites online, plus how manual, WP-CLI and dashboard approaches compare. - WordPress Security Checklist for Agencies (2026)
A practical, fleet-wide WordPress security checklist agencies can apply to every site they manage, hardening, access control, scanning, backups, and monitoring for compromise. - White-Label WordPress Maintenance Reports: What to Include (+ Template)
A white-label WordPress maintenance report is the monthly proof that your care plan is working. Here’s exactly what to include, how to keep it branded as yours, and how to produce them at scale without burning hours. - How to Send WordPress Uptime Alerts to Slack (via Zapier)
Route downtime and critical-error alerts straight into a Slack channel so your whole team sees outages the moment they happen, using a simple Zapier webhook. - WordPress Care Plan Template for Agencies (Free Framework)
A reusable three-tier WordPress care plan framework, Basic, Standard, Premium, with what each includes, suggested pricing, response-time SLAs, and the tasks you should automate so margins survive scale.