Siteward
The lean alternative to MainWP & ManageWP·omniswp.com
Siteward is lightweight, self-hosted WordPress fleet management for agencies and freelancers. From one dashboard it lets users monitor uptime, run fleet-wide core/plugin/theme updates, watch UpdraftPlus backup health, and catch WordPress critical errors across unlimited sites. It consists of two WordPress plugins: a central dashboard and a lightweight child plugin installed on each managed site, connected via OpenSSL-signed requests. It is offered at one flat price with no per-site fees.
What it's for
Features 15
- Auto-paused plugin detection naming the culprit
- Dynamic Notification Engine (one alert per server outage instead of per site) (Pro)
- Email and Zapier alerts on state changes
- Fleet plugin management: bulk activate, deactivate, install, uninstall (Pro)
- Fleet-wide core, plugin and theme updates (one-click and bulk)
- Health flags/badges for at-a-glance site status
- Live progress modal for bulk updates
- One-click WP-Admin login to managed sites
- Parallel engine for checking/updating hundreds of sites quickly
- Self-hosted, OpenSSL-signed secure connections with replay protection
- SSL certificate and domain expiry monitoring (Pro)
- UpdraftPlus backup health monitoring and alerts (missing, stale, failing)
- Uptime monitoring with retry-then-alert logic
- WordPress critical-error and white-screen detection
- WP-Cron and site health monitoring
Pricing
All prices stated in USD. Agency available monthly ($15/mo) or annually ($129/yr, described as better value); both start with a 14-day free trial. Lifetime ($399) is a one-time payment, early-bird pricing normally $499.
The full monitoring core, unlimited sites, no per-site fees.
Unlimited sites on the free plan
14-day free trial, then $129/yr or $15/mo. Cancel anytime. Annual billing ($129/yr) is cheaper than monthly ($15/mo).
Unlimited sites on every plan
$399 one-time payment (early-bird price, normally $499).
Unlimited sites
Lifetime plan is early-bird priced at $399, normally $499.