Smart Plugin Manager: Automatic Updates
Plugin updates backed up, tested, and rolled back
Your trusted source for plugin and theme updates. Outdated plugins are the most common way attackers get into WordPress® sites.1 Smart Plugin Manager closes that window on your schedule, backs up before every run, visually verifies your site afterward, and restores your backup automatically if anything breaks.
What Smart Plugin Manager DeliversSecure sites, hours back, and updates on your terms
Reduce security concerns and downtime
Keep your site secure with automated plugin updates that don’t leave you vulnerable to downtime or security threats.
Smart Plugin Manager automates updates safely with a full backup before every run, visual regression testing against pre-update pages, and an automatic rollback if anything changed. Every update is verified against your real pages, not a changelog.
Automated plugin and theme updates
Pre-update backups
AI-enhanced visual regression testing with sensitivity controls
Sitemap upload or specific URL selection — Choose which pages and how many get checked
Verify updates on desktop, mobile, or both
Automatic rollback the moment a visual test fails
Optional maintenance mode
Run updates on your site's schedule
Customize your update preferences, unlike other systems.
Not every plugin deserves the same treatment — an SEO plugin and a payment gateway carry very different risks. Smart Plugin Manager gives you the control, plugin by plugin: what updates automatically and when the run happens.
Per-plugin include or exclude
Daily, weekly, or monthly cadences
6-hour off-peak update windows and day-of-week selection
Staging-first testing option
Custom, private, commercial, and multisite plugin support
One-off and ad-hoc runs
Offload costly, time-consuming maintenance tasks
Don’t spend time tediously updating your plugins or risk your brand reputation on tools that might leave your site in a broken state! Set up your preferences and move on to other business-critical activities instead.
Set your preferences once and get the hours back. Smart Plugin Manager handles backups, updates, verification, rollbacks, and cache clearing end-to-end — across as many sites, plugins, and themes as you manage, from one dashboard.
Fully automated recurring runs
Automatic cache clearing
Reports and update summaries
One dashboard for every site on your account
Expert support if something needs troubleshooting
Save billable hours spent maintaining client sites
Streamline site management at scale with reliable plugin and theme updates that you can easily resell in your client maintenance plans without the risk to your brand reputation if any updates cause issues.
Give your team back the billable hours that maintenance work eats up, and turn those hours into recurring revenue. Smart Plugin Manager enables agencies to offer automated, verified updates as a managed service — with shareable proof of the work behind it.
Automated updates, backups, and rollbacks at scale
Reseller discounts — As low as $2 per site
Shareable, downloadable update reports
Configurable notification settings
The MechanismHow Smart Plugin Manager works
Who We ServeBuilt for teams that can't afford a broken site
eCommerce
Choose exactly which URLs get visually tested, so checkout, cart, products, and every other revenue-critical page is verified before an update is allowed to stand — and reverted automatically if it isn’t.
Agencies & Resellers
Manage updates for every client site from one dashboard, with shareable reports as proof of service and reseller pricing as low as $2 per site — turning a cost center into a resellable, managed service.
Enterprise & Multi-Site Portfolios
Protect your brand reputation with consistent update policy, audit-ready reporting, and per-plugin governance across a whole portfolio — including multisite, private, and Git-based plugins — without adding maintenance headcount.
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Who it’s Built ForThe right controls for every role
Developers
Per-plugin opt-in and opt-out, staging-first testing, and support for custom, private, and Git-based plugins — so you can automate the low-risk work and keep a human in the loop everywhere it matters.
Agency Account/ Portfolio Managers
Set your cadence once and let updates run outside of your peak traffic windows, verified and reported. Your sites stay secure and current while your team works on things that actually move the business forward.
Site Owners & Business Leaders
Already included on some plans and a low-cost add-on on others. No wasted developer hours, and no waking up to a site that broke overnight.
Smart Plugin Manager
