Manage connected sites from a hosted dashboard

UpdraftCentral Premium Cloud is a hosted version of UpdraftCentral, maintained for you as a central place to manage connected WordPress sites. From the dashboard, you can open a site's WordPress dashboard with one click, inspect its system information, and review updates across connected sites on one screen.

Backups, updates, and maintenance

Use the dashboard to manage UpdraftPlus backups: start a backup, view or edit backup options, check available backups, download or delete backups, and start a restore. You can also manage UpdraftVault storage there.

Review WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates across connected sites, then apply updates according to filters. Easy Updates Manager controls update policies. UpdraftCentral can also remotely control WP-Optimize for database cleanup.

Administration across sites

• Run Google Analytics for an overview of important key performance indicators across sites.
• Manage comments and users, including assigning users various access levels.
• Create tags to group websites into categories.
• Activate, deactivate, or delete extensions on one or more sites. Install and automatically activate extensions from the WordPress add-on directory.
• Choose and set a default theme, or install themes from the WordPress theme directory on one or more sites.

Interface and connections

The dashboard is a single-page JavaScript application with a full-screen mode. It works without frequent page refreshes and keeps the WordPress dashboard out of the way. Communications are sent directly from the browser where possible. Site connections are RSA encrypted and signed, with a unique key pair for each connection.

UpdraftCentral can also run by localhost, keeping the dashboard site off the public Internet. The interface is responsive and mobile-ready. Developers can extend it through widely used WordPress hooks; its JavaScript is documented with JSDoc.

Getting started

For the hosted edition, access UpdraftCentral Premium Cloud. On each site you want to manage, install UpdraftPlus, then connect the site to the central dashboard. After connection, use the dashboard to review site information, backups, updates, and administration utilities.