UpdraftCentral Dashboard

UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your WordPress sites from one central location.

You can centrally manage backups, updates and more, accessing each site quickly and efficiently.

This plugin is the central dashboard plugin for installing on the site you want your dashboard (the “mothership”). On the sites you want to control, you instead install UpdraftPlus.

Don’t want to self-host a dashboard? A premium cloud version of UpdraftCentral hosted and maintained by us is also available with many more features – with control of 5 sites available for free.

UpdraftCentral is the latest release from the makers of UpdraftPlus, WordPress’ #1 most installed and trusted backup plugin (active on over a million WordPress sites). As a relatively young plugin we’re keen to get your feedback. If you discover a problem, please let us know (rather than slamming us with a bad review!). You can find support or make suggestions here.

Quick links: how to install | how to add a site | FAQs

Features of this self-install version

Built with state-of-the-art technology, UpdraftCentral is full of features that increase your efficiency and productivity.

With UpdraftCentral, you can…

• Quickly manage all your UpdraftPlus backups from a single place (backup, see/edit settings, see/download/delete backups, initiate restore)
• Log in to the WP dashboard of any connected site with a single click.
• Update the WordPress core, plus plugins and themes of any connected site.
• Clearly view updates from all sites and carry them out according to sophisticated filters from a single screen.
• Clean your database on any site by remotely controlling our WP-Optimize plugin, the #1 most-installed WP database optimization plugin
• Control policies for updates via control of Easy Updates Manager
• Manage UpdraftVault storage
• Easily inspect current system information in order to manage site configurations and settings, and troubleshoot problems.
• See below for extra features in UpdraftCentral Premium

UpdraftCentral Advantages:

• No annoying page refreshes and no WP dashboard to get in your way (this is a single-page/dynamic JavaScript application which runs in the front end and on full-screen mode).
• Fast and efficient: all communications are sent directly from the browser where possible, rather than through a back-end server).
• Secure: all communications between sites are RSA encrypted and signed, and every connection has a unique key-pair. Can be run by localhost, so you can have the dashboard website (i.e. the one that controls all the others) off the public Internet.
• Mobile-ready and responsive
• Extensible and developer friendly: it uses WordPress hooks widely, and all of its JavaScript is documented with JSDoc.

Features of UpdraftPlus Premium Cloud:

UpdraftCentral Premium Cloud is a hosted, cloud version of UpdraftCentral which we maintain so that you don’t have to.

It has many more features:

• Run Google Analytics to get an instant overview of important KPIs from all sites
• Easily manage comments on all your sites from one place
• Manage users, giving different levels of access
• Create tags to organize websites into different categories
• Fully supported via a fast, professional ticketed support service and active forum.
• Manage (activate, deactivate or delete) plugins from one or multiple websites all in one place
• Install one or more plugins straight from wordpress.org and automatically activate them
• Manage themes, choose and set your default theme easily and automatically
• Search, choose and click to install themes to one or multiple websites