SiteVitals Monitor

Description

Every WordPress site gets updated – plugins, themes, core. Most of the time, updates go smoothly. But sometimes a plugin update quietly breaks your contact form, slows your site down, or introduces a security regression. Without a record of what changed and when, diagnosing the problem can take hours.

SiteVitals Monitor reports every update – plugin, theme, and WordPress core – directly to your SiteVitals change timeline. When something goes wrong, you can immediately see what changed just before it happened.

How it works

Connect the plugin to your SiteVitals account in a couple of clicks. From that point on, every update is automatically recorded to your change timeline with:

• What was updated (plugin name, theme, or WordPress core)
• Which version it moved from and to
• Whether the update was manual or automatic
• Whether the update succeeded or failed
• The version jump type – major, minor, or patch

Your SiteVitals dashboard monitors your site continuously for uptime and availability. On connection, SiteVitals also runs a one-time snapshot across performance, SEO health, security, integrity, and content — so you have an immediate baseline to work from. Ongoing daily monitoring across these additional areas is available on paid plans.

With this plugin connected, your monitoring signals sit alongside a complete record of every WordPress update — so when your Lighthouse score drops or your uptime alert fires, you can see at a glance whether a recent update coincides with the problem.

Why this matters

Automated plugin updates are a good idea in principle. In practice, they introduce risk. A major version update to a form plugin, a caching plugin, or a security plugin can have side effects that aren’t immediately visible. This plugin gives you the context to correlate monitoring signals with changes — the missing link between “something is wrong” and “here’s what changed right before it went wrong.”

Features

• Tracks plugin updates – name, slug, version, author, from/to version, jump type
• Tracks theme updates
• Tracks WordPress core updates
• Distinguishes between manual and automatic (cron) updates
• Records both successful and failed updates
• One-click OAuth connection – no API keys to copy and paste
• Direct links to your SiteVitals timeline and dashboard from the plugin settings
• Clean event log in your WordPress admin showing recent events sent
• Full cleanup on uninstall – no options left behind

Free vs paid

A free SiteVitals account includes permanent uptime monitoring and a one-time health snapshot covering performance, SEO, security, integrity, and content. Ongoing daily checks across these areas, plus longer data history and faster check intervals, are available on paid plans starting at £19/month.

Requirements

A free SiteVitals account is required. Create one here – no credit card needed.

External services

This plugin connects to the SiteVitals API, a third-party service operated by SiteVitals (https://www.sitevitals.co.uk), to record WordPress update events to your change timeline. SiteVitals is the service this plugin exists to integrate with — using the plugin without a SiteVitals account is not possible.

What the service is and what it is used for

SiteVitals is a website monitoring service that tracks uptime, performance, SEO, security, and content changes for your site, and presents them on a shared change timeline. This plugin sends WordPress update events (plugin, theme, and core updates) to that timeline so they can be correlated with monitoring signals.

What data is sent and when

Data is only sent after you have explicitly connected the plugin via Settings → SiteVitals. No data is transmitted before you complete the connection flow.

Once connected, the plugin sends data to SiteVitals at two points:

1. When you click “Test Connection” in the plugin settings — a single GET request to https://www.sitevitals.co.uk/api/v1/pages/{site_id}/health containing your API key in the Authorization header. No site data is sent.

2. When a WordPress core, plugin, or theme update completes — a single POST request to https://www.sitevitals.co.uk/api/v1/pages/{site_id}/wordpress-events containing:

   • The type of update (core, plugin, or theme)
   • The name, slug, and author of the updated item
   • The version before and after the update
   • The version jump type (major, minor, or patch)
   • Whether the update was triggered manually or by WordPress automatic updates
   • Whether the update succeeded or failed

No site content, post data, user data, email addresses, or personally identifiable information is ever transmitted.

Service terms and privacy policy

By using this plugin you agree to the SiteVitals terms of service and privacy policy:

• Terms of Service: https://www.sitevitals.co.uk/terms-of-service
• Privacy Policy: https://www.sitevitals.co.uk/privacy-policy