How can the crew help?

Getting started

12 articles

Sign in, connect your first WordPress site and find your way around WP Foreman. Your first site is free, with every feature.

• Getting started
• What is WP Foreman?
• Signing in
• Add and connect a site
• Alerts in Slack and Discord
• Finding your way around

Sites & the plugin

13 articles

What the WP Foreman plugin does on your sites, and how to manage connections.

• What the WP Foreman plugin does (and doesn’t)
• Sign in to wp-admin in one click
• Update the WP Foreman plugin
• Plugins, themes and versions
• Disconnecting a site
• Rename or hide the plugin on client websites

Backups

12 articles

Encrypted, incremental backups kept for 90 days. Schedules, exclusions and restores.

• How backups work
• Run a backup now
• Backup schedule
• Choose what gets backed up
• Tables from other sites in the same database
• Backup emails

Plugins, themes & updates

5 articles

Install, activate, update and delete plugins and themes on one site or across all of them, with a backup first.

• Manage plugins and themes on a site
• Install plugins and themes
• Update across all your sites
• Manage a website’s users
• Safe updates

Analytics

2 articles

See each site's traffic from your own Google Analytics, Plausible or Umami.

• Connect Google Analytics, Plausible or Umami
• Reading a site’s traffic

Uptime

4 articles

Minute-by-minute checks from Cloudflare's network, confirmed from more than one region, plus SSL and domain expiry warnings.

• How uptime monitoring works
• SSL certificate and domain expiry
• Email delivery check
• Form testing

Performance

2 articles

Daily Google PageSpeed tests on mobile and desktop, Core Web Vitals from real visitors, and what to fix first.

• Site speed (PageSpeed)
• Visual checks (screenshots)

Client reports

3 articles

Plain-English reports for your clients: updates, backups, uptime, speed and traffic for any dates.

• Client reports
• Client portal
• Show your hands-on work in client reports

Log, rules & reports

7 articles

The permanent record of everything that happens on your sites, the rules that run the crew while you're away, and the reports built from them.

• The site log
• Know when someone changes a site
• How rules work
• Rules reference
• Rule recipes
• Rules: safety, history and pausing

Security & privacy

4 articles

How we connect to your sites, what we store and how backups are protected.

• Are my backups encrypted?
• Known vulnerabilities (Security)
• How WP Foreman connects to your site
• What data WP Foreman stores

The Foreman & MCP

4 articles

Run your WordPress sites by chat with Ask the Foreman, from WP Foreman or from Claude and ChatGPT via MCP.

• The Foreman: run your sites by chat
• Do things across many sites with Ask the Foreman
• Use your own Anthropic key
• WP Foreman MCP server (Claude, ChatGPT and more) Soon

API

6 articles

REST API reference: tokens, sites, backups, restores, plugins and updates.

• API: getting started
• API: sites and clients
• API: backups, restores and clones
• API: plugins, themes and updates
• Webhooks
• API: rules

Changelog

1 article

Everything that shipped in WP Foreman, newest first: new features, improvements and fixes for backups, updates, uptime, reports and more.

• Changelog