UpdraftPlus vs Kadence Central – Site Management, Backups, Security, and Reporting

🏢 Your Headquarters for Multi-site Management What do you get when you use Kadence Central to manage and maintain all your WordPress websites from one dashboard? Real-time visibility. Improved time management. Increased productivity. Enhanced performance for the websites you manage. And, you raise the bar on what you can deliver for your clients. 📊 One Central Dashboard to Save You Loads of Time No more logging into each individual website to view important website data or perform remote WordPress admin actions. Kadence Central lets you manage multiple WordPress websites from one dashboard while also allowing you to easily switch to individual view to perform site-specific admin functions when necessary. What can you do quickly and easily with Kadence Central? Stay on Top of WordPress Updates – WordPress updates are important for the security and efficiency of WordPress websites. Kadence Central completely changes the way you update your WordPress sites—update dozens of sites with one click. Bulk Install Themes and Plugins From WordPress.org or Zip Upload – Search and install from WordPress.org and view your WordPress.org profile favorites. Upload theme or plugin zip files or install themes and plugins directly from your Kadence Central membership. WordPress Uptime Monitoring – Monitor WordPress uptime, downtime & overall performance for all your WordPress websites. Get notification emails when sites go down and view a history of your overall WordPress performance. View uptime stats such as total uptime percentage, total downtime, and number of downtimes for WordPress performance monitoring. WordPress Post & Page Manager – View a list of current posts and pages on your site, including the title, author, date last modified, focus keyword, SEO score and SEO readability. Remotely Login to WordPress & Switch Between User Accounts – Quickly jump to the WordPress Admin dashboard of your WordPress site where you’ll be instantly logged in from Kadence Central. You can also switch between any WordPress user account registered on the site without sharing password info. WordPress Comment Manager – View all comments (all, approved, pending, spam, trash) and unapprove, mark as spam, or move comments to trash. WordPress Database Optimizations – Make sure your WordPress sites are running efficiently with WordPress optimizations. Central handles actions like cleaning out post revisions, spam comments and more. SEO Checker + Google Analytics & Google Search Console Reports – Track key SEO metrics with Central’s SEO Checker and Google Analytics & Google Search Console integration. Central integrates with the Yoast SEO plugin to give you an overview of the health of your SEO efforts. Remote WordPress Backups – Run remote backups and restore with Central’s integration with Kadence Backups, our WordPress backup plugin. 🔐 Enhancing WordPress Site Security with Kadence Central Improve security for all your WordPress websites by integrating Kadence Security with Kadence Central. WordPress User Manager – WordPress user management in Kadence Central allows you to view all users on a website, edit user profiles and delete users remotely. With Central’s Client Dashboard, you can customize how certain users see the WordPress dashboard. Two-factor Authentication – Add an extra layer of protection to your Central dashboard login with two-factor authentication. Once enabled, Central will require both a password AND an SMS code sent to your mobile device to log in to the Central Dashboard. Whitelist Your IP Address (Kadence Security integration) – Temporarily whitelist your IP Address remotely so you don’t get locked out of your website by the Kadence Security plugin’s Bad Users feature. Release Kadence Security Lockouts (Kadence Security integration) – View and release any current Kadence Security lockouts. 💻 Features Designed for Freelancers and Agencies Central Pro was made for anyone managing multiple WordPress sites. If you’re building sites for clients, you’ll love how Central makes caring for client sites easier and more profitable. WordPress Maintenance Reports – Central Pro includes in-depth WordPress maintenance reporting to show the work involved in maintaining WordPress websites. Email clients beautiful HTML email reports with a summary of update actions you took to keep their site running smoothly. Customize the WordPress dashboard for clients/users – With Central Pro, you get Client Dashboard, a WordPress role manager that controls which menu items your clients see in their WordPress dashboard. Don’t want them to have access to plugins, themes or settings? Simplify their dashboard so they only see what they need — like posts and pages. Show/Hide Central From the WP Dashboard – To keep your clients or other site users from messing with your Central authentication or removing the plugin, you can choose to hide or show the plugin in the WordPress dashboard of each site you manage with Central. Share Your Central Dashboard with Another User – If you have other people on your team that you’d like to task with helping you maintain sites, this feature is a great way to help you easily delegate your workload to other team members. Site Notes and Tags – Central’s Notes feature is a handy way to keep notations about your Centraled sites. For example, if you added customizations to theme or plugin files that could be lost with an update, add a reminder. Tag business sites, personal sites, client sites, live, non-live or however you want to be able identify your sites. 📈 WordPress Maintenance Reports for Clients Make steady, reliable income for WordPress maintenance with Kadence Central Pro’s WordPress Maintenance Reports. Show Clients the Value of What You Do – Detailed website reports are one of the best ways to show clients the value of a monthly WordPress maintenance plan. Central Pro’s WordPress Maintenance Reports handle the hard work of compiling all the update actions you took, so you can justify the value of what you do. White-label Report Emails – Upload your own logo and set custom colors for the header, footer and button color of report emails to better match your company’s branding. Summarize Update Actions to WordPress Core, Themes & Plugins + More Website Stats – Reports include all update actions taken within a certain timeframe, both from the Central dashboard and the WordPress dashboard. See a full list of all of the stats included in Central’s WordPress reports. Schedule Reports to Automatically Run & Deliver Report Emails – Reports can run on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, and then automatically email reports to clients. Email Beautiful, Interactive HTML Reports to Clients – Reports are delivered as beautiful, interactive HTML reports so clients can get a visual summary of the WordPress maintenance you provide. Central handles compiling and organizing update actions and key website stats. See a WordPress maintenance report demo. SEO Reporting – Summarize key SEO Stats stats in an easy-to-digest format — showing how your client’s sites are doing in Google and where they can improve. See a WordPress SEO report demo. ☑️ WordPress Updates Daily Notification Emails – Get a daily summary of available WordPress updates as a helpful reminder to log in and run updates. Customize the delivery time of your daily notification emails to fit your schedule. One-Click Update All – View a summary of all available updates for all your websites and then update them all with one click. View Plugin Changelogs – View update logs that include all updates made in Central, including the date of the update, previous version number and new version number. View Updates by Site – The in-depth individual site view gives you a detailed view of the available updates for that site, with more WordPress site management action options. Sort Updates By Theme or Plugin – View a listing of individual themes and plugins you have installed on your websites along with available update information. Ignore Update Option – If you’ve made customizations to your themes and plugins, an update could overwrite your work. Choose to ignore updates for specific themes and plugins. 🔗 Integrations WordPress.org – Search and install themes and plugins from WordPress.org remotely from Central. View your WordPress.org profile favorites to save time. Kadence Backups – Run remote WordPress backups, download your latest backup file, view number of edits since your last Kadence Backups backup. Kadence Backups Stash – View, download and delete your Kadence Backups Stash backups, and view a graph of the total amount of Stash space you’ve used. Kadence Security – Temporarily Whitelist your IP Address remotely so you don’t get locked out of the website. View and release any Kadence Security lockouts. Google Analytics – Track Google Analytics for multiple WordPress sites. View key metrics from Google Analytics such as traffic, landing pages, keywords, sessions and referrer URLS. Google Search Console – Get a quick summary of Google Search Console data, view search analytics, crawl errors and sitemaps info. Yoast SEO – Central’s SEO Checker feature integrates with the Yoast SEO Plugin so you can quickly see the SEO status of the content on your WordPress website. Gravity Forms – From Central, you can view all the forms you’ve created in Gravity Forms for that site. You can also quickly see how many responses and views each form has received. WP101 Plugin – Easily add a complete series of WordPress onboarding tutorial videos to the WordPress dashboard of your client sites with Central’s WP101 plugin integration. License This file is part of Kadence Central. This plugin is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. DISCLAIMER: Under no circumstances do we release this plugin with any warranty, implied or otherwise. We cannot be held responsible for any damage that might arise from the use of this plugin.

The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world. Backup with UpdraftPlus UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks. Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email. The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus. Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly. Restore with UpdraftPlus Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error. Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen. Migrate with UpdraftPlus It’s easy to migrate your WordPress website to another web host, server or domain with this free version of UpdraftPlus. To migrate, simply download your database, plugins, themes etc. from the source site, then upload them into your destination site. When migrating, a built-in search-and-replace engine identifies old strings and replaces these to reflect the new location. UpdraftPlus saves you time and reduces the risk of broken links or missing files associated with manual migrations. Why UpdraftPlus? Writing a reliable backup and migration plugin that ‘just works’ consistently across millions of different WordPress deployments is hard. UpdraftPlus is relied upon to do exactly that. We’re trusted and actively deployed on more websites around the world than any other WordPress backup and migration plugin. UpdraftPlus: Backs up, migrates and restores Offers a huge number of remote storage locations Allows you to schedule backups, so you can ‘set and forget’ Is comprehensive and easy to use Is proven to work on over 3 million sites. UpdraftPlus Premium The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up and migrate your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Backup and Migrate with UpdraftPlus Premium, and: Get automatic backups before updates. Restore the very latest version if a WordPress or plugin update breaks your site. Backup Incrementally. Changes are added to the master, saving server resources vs repeatedly backing up in full. Get more remote storage options including Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, SCP, Backblaze and pCloud. Get 1GB of integrated storage with UpdraftVault for 99.999% reliability, redundancy and scalability. Get more control over how many backups are stored in a specified interval. Restore from other backup plugins including BackWPup, BackupWordPress, Simple Backups and more. Run backups at set times e.g. during periods of low traffic. Backup to more than one location for added protection. Get detailed reports. Includes cryptographic checksums so you can verify the integrity of the backup files and more. Get Premium migration. Migrating to the destination site is more direct and can be done from the source site. Get Multisite / multi-network compatibility. Backup non-WP files and databases e.g. tables belonging to your e-commerce store or customisations to WordPress core. Get database encryption. Manage your backups and migrations from the WP-CLI. Get Premium Support. Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here. Managing multiple websites? UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your backups, as well as updates, users, pages, posts, plugins and themes from one central location. Choose between: UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Premium (paid-for, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Cloud (paid-for, fully-hosted) Optimize your sites centrally by combining the power of WP-Optimize and UpdraftCentral or manage your backups centrally by combining the power of UpdraftPlus with UpdraftCentral. Need to create a temporary clone of your site? UpdraftClone makes it quick and easy to create a temporary sandbox for changes you want to try out. Simply select the versions of WordPress and PHP that you want, and we’ll do the rest. More about UpdraftClone The full suite of plugins from Team Updraft and friends UpdraftPlus. Backup, migrate and restore. Rated 5* on the plugin directory and trusted by more than 3 million WordPress website owner WP-Optimize. Clean the database, compress images and caching. Optimize your WordPress website. 5* user rating. 1 million + active installs. All-In-One Security (AIOS). Secure your WordPress website. Comprehensive, feature rich and easy to use. 5* user rating and 1 million + active installs. WP Overnight. Quality Extensions for your WooCommerce store. 5* rated invoicing, order and product management, customer management solutions and more. Easy Updates Manager. Take control of updates. Lots of features for free, and a Premium version with even more – over 300,000 users. Internal Link Juicer.Boost your SEO. Automate internal links within your WordPress website. Save time and rank higher in the search engines. For other useful, free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here. Are you multilingual? Can you translate? Do you want to help people that speak your language to backup, migrate and restore their WordPress websites? The UpdraftPlus backup, migration and restoration plugin is ready and waiting. The translation process is easy, and web-based – please go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. Or, if you’re already an expert WordPress translator, just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e(). Many thanks to our existing translators. License Copyright 2011-24 David Anderson This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Non-English translators are provided by volunteers, and wordpress.org does not give plugin developers control over their translations; thus relying on them is at your own risk; UpdraftPlus cannot guarantee that translations from the original English are accurate. We recognise and thank those mentioned at https://updraftplus.com/acknowledgements/ for code and/or libraries used and/or modified under the terms of their open source licences.