UpdraftCentral Premium Cloud

Manage connected WordPress sites

UpdraftCentral Premium Cloud is a hosted, maintained dashboard for managing connected WordPress sites. Review website information and updates across sites on one screen, or open a connected website's WordPress dashboard with a single click.

Backups, updates, and maintenance

Manage UpdraftPlus backups from the central dashboard: start a backup, view or edit backup options, check available backups, download or delete them, and initiate a restore. You can also manage UpdraftVault storage.

Review WordPress core, extension, and theme updates across connected sites, then carry them out according to filters. Easy Updates Manager controls update policies. The dashboard can also remotely control WP-Optimize for database cleaning.

Administration and reporting

• Run Google Analytics for an overview of key performance indicators across sites.
• Manage comments and users across connected sites, with various access levels for users.
• Create tags to group sites into categories.
• Activate, deactivate, or delete plugins on one or more sites, and install and automatically activate plugins from the WordPress directory.
• Manage themes, set a default theme, and install themes from the WordPress directory on one or more sites.

Interface and connections

The dashboard is a dynamic, single-page JavaScript application that runs in the front end and full-screen mode. It avoids frequent page refreshes and keeps the WordPress dashboard out of the way. Communications are sent directly from the browser where possible. Connections between sites are RSA-encrypted and signed, and each connection has a unique key pair.

The interface is responsive and mobile-ready. UpdraftCentral can also execute on localhost, keeping the dashboard site off the public Internet. The system is extensible and developer-friendly, with broad use of WordPress hooks and JavaScript documented through JSDoc.

Connect sites to the cloud dashboard

Access UpdraftCentral Premium Cloud, install UpdraftPlus on each WordPress site you want to manage, then connect those sites to the central dashboard. Once connected, review site information, backups, updates, and administration controls from one location.