Modular DS vs WebFacing™ –

Modular DS is an all-in-one platform for managing multiple WordPress sites, built to help you save time and run a profitable maintenance business. From a single, intuitive dashboard, you can: Bulk manage and update plugins, themes, and WordPress core across multiple sites at once. Monitor uptime and performance with real-time alerts. Schedule automatic backups and restore them in one click from Modular DS. Know how likely a plugin update is to break your site before applying it with Update Copilot, our AI-powered update scoring system. Run quick or safe updates and automate them with smart rules based on version type, risk level, or detected vulnerabilities. Perform vulnerability and malware scans. Detect and fix broken links and images. Migrate, clone, and create staging environments. Optimize your WordPress databases right from Modular DS. Generate automated reports, including pre-maintenance reports, to show the value of your work to clients. Display a custom maintenance mode page to hide unfinished changes while you update or work on a site. Usability and support are at the heart of everything we do. Our team brings over a decade of hands-on experience in WordPress site management and is always ready to help when you need it. Explore more features on our website or get started for free. Manage, monitor, and protect all your WordPress sites in one place Connect your WordPress sites to Modular DS, access them with one-click login, and manage updates, backups, security scans, uptime monitoring, and more in a single dashboard. Stay organized with tags and teams, and assign custom roles and permissions to collaborators. Bulk management and updates Install, update, activate, or delete plugins, themes, and WordPress versions across multiple websites at once (or one by one). The global updater also gives you a full picture of what’s happening across your sites: detected vulnerabilities, Update Copilot risk scores, warnings for abandoned plugins, and more, all from one place. Smarter, automated updates Choose how your updates run: as quick standard updates, as safe updates with before and after screenshots and instant rollbacks, or as smart automated updates that let you define when and under what conditions they should run. Pair it with Update Copilot, our AI-powered scoring system, to understand how risky a plugin update might be before applying it and make more informed decisions. You can also schedule one-time updates for a specific date and time, or simply hide updates you are not ready to apply. Whatever approach you prefer, Modular DS gives you more control and flexibility to safely keep your sites up to date. Backups and one-click restoration Schedule GDPR-compliant backups to safeguard your clients’ sites and data, or create one manually whenever you need. Choose between full or incremental backups and easily restore entire sites, files, or databases from Modular DS. Uptime monitoring Never get caught off guard by downtime. Get notified by email, WhatsApp, Slack, or Discord when any of your websites go down, before your clients even notice. Customize check frequency, response time, keyword detection, and alert settings to fit your workflow. Modular DS includes one of the most complete uptime monitor tools for WordPress. Security monitoring and management Modular DS includes vulnerability detection for plugins, themes, and WordPress core, with alerts up to 48 hours before issues are publicly disclosed. You also have malware scanning to check your sites’ files and database for malicious content, and admin user alerts to know whenever someone is added or removed as an administrator on any of your connected sites. On top of that, you get notified whenever something else requires your attention, from outdated PHP to expired SSL certificates. For teams that need more, our add-ons extend these capabilities. See the integrations section below for details. Broken link detection Run scheduled or on-demand scans to detect broken links and images across your sites. When broken internal links are found, create redirects to fix them without leaving Modular DS. Site migration, cloning, and staging Modular DS lets you migrate or clone any connected site in three ways: move it to another existing site in the platform, migrate it to a different server while keeping the same domain, or clone it to a new domain. You can also create staging environments on your own server to test changes before going live. Database optimization Clean up post revisions, spam comments, transients, orphaned tables, and more directly from Modular DS. No need for extra plugins. Keep your websites running smoothly while saving time and having a clear record of every optimization made. Client reports From winning new clients to keeping existing ones, Modular DS covers both ends of the reporting workflow. Before a client signs up, you can generate a pre-maintenance report to show everything their site needs: pending updates, detected vulnerabilities, site health issues, database optimizations, etc. Once they are on board, automatically generate and send regular maintenance reports that highlight the work you do behind each site. Add time logs, dates, and screenshots to showcase the full scope of your efforts, so clients understand the value of your service and keep paying for it. Both report types help you build trust, improve client retention, and turn your WordPress maintenance offering into recurring revenue. Integrations Modular DS integrates with Google Analytics, Search Console, WooCommerce, and PageSpeed, giving you an overview of your websites in one place and allowing you to include the data your clients care most about in your reports. To further strengthen your sites’ security, two add-ons extend what is included in every plan. Patch & Protect, powered by Patchstack, applies virtual patches and hardening rules to block known vulnerabilities and common attack methods as soon as they are detected, even before an official fix is available. And if one malware scan per month is not enough, our malware add-on, powered by Imunify Connect, lets you run weekly and on-demand scans across your sites. Support that understands you Modular DS is the first site management platform with support in both English and Spanish. Whether you have a question or run into an issue, our team has over 10 years of WordPress experience and is here to help you.

🕸️ By WebFacing™. Read, send, show, manage, list, create, add, remove or delete email accounts, old messages, forwarders and autoresponders. One click read, send and manage all your emails without a login step. Update notification recipients. Backup and download your complete cPanel® account. This plugin requires your site is hosted on a cPanel® equipped server. It uses it’s UAPI through shell access by default, or via HTTP API. Using without shell_exec initially requires a temporary access token generated in the cPanel® native interface. Translation ready. Ready translations are Norwegian (bokmål) Current features NEW: Dashboard widget with three live graphic server memory usage and server load gauge charts (can eassily be minimized or hidden via Screen Options or programatically) WP Block for frontend access user’s own Webmail Bulk entry of forwarders and email accounts (as free trial only, very limited use) Screen Options to select visible forms on New Email screen, saved for as user option (and per site for Multisite) Shortcode [wf_cpanel_email_webmail] or as [wf_cpanel_email_webmail]My Email[/wf_cpanel_email_webmail] for frontend access user’s own Webmail cPanel® API Tokens Management – needed in case shell_exec is not available or when accessing a remote server Backup complete cPanel® hosting account to file, and download it Restore account backup files by extracting it to a folder (experimental) Semi automated migration to new email server, including setup of new accounts for users, with sending setup instructions, passwords and links to setup guides for most common email clients Add 10 single Email Accounts per week (without Pro nag) — actually unlimited Remove single/multiple Email Accounts List mailboxes with number of messages for each box Remove old messages from mailboxes (older than 52 weeks as default) Shrink a mailbox (empty it) Change storage quota for for email accounts Add 20 forwarders per week (without Pro nag) — actually unlimited Add/remove single/multiple Email Failure addresses or Blackhole addresses Add/delete/edit email autoresponders (for, subject, body, from, start, stop, interval) Send single cPanel® Email Account Instruction (Client Setup) to specfied address Send multipe cPanel® Email Account Instructions (Client Setups) to yourself for distribution Open your cPanel® Webmail app for selected account (single click/tap – no further login needed!) Set/change Email Account passwords Set Default Email Address (catch-all) as forwarder, failure or blackhole View/change Notification/Contact Email Addresses Access for any user to view and read their own emails, if given the cpanel capability (Use custom code or a Roles/Capabilities Manager plugin) Support for subdomain email addresses when the main domain is a subdomain (only) In case the shell_exec function is disabled in your server PHP configuration, create a token in native cPanel® interface and add one of these lines to your wp-config.php file, functions.php in your child theme, in Must-use plugin or a custom regular plugin const WF_CPANEL_API_TOKEN = 'my-temp-api-token'; define( 'WF_CPANEL_API_TOKEN', 'my-temp-api-token' ); See Manage API Tokens in cPanel® The WF_CPANEL_API_TOKEN constant may be removed when a new token is created and activated from the plugin admin page Option to set the default visibility for users on New Email screen (users may still set their own preferences): add_filter( 'wf-cpanel-email-new-email_user-option', static function( bool $default, string $option, int $user_id ) { if ( $option === 'wc-show-new-blackhole' /*or by $user_id*/ ) { $default = true/*false*/; } return $default; }, 10, 3 ); Option to allow other users than those with manage_options capability to manage email adresses, single- or multisite, one of the following: add_filter( 'wf_cpanel_email_capability', static fn( string $cap ): string => $my_cpanel_email_cap ); add_filter( 'wf_cpanel_email_capability', static fn( string $cap ) => 'edit_published_pages' ); Option to allow other users than those with manage_options capability to see the dashboard widget, or remove it, one of the following: add_filter( 'wf_cpanel_email_widget_capability', static fn( string $cap ): string => $my_cpanel_widget_cap ); add_filter( 'wf_cpanel_email_widget_capability', static fn( string $cap ) => 'edit_published_pages' ); add_filter( 'wf_cpanel_email_widget_capability', static fn( string $cap ) => 'do_not_allow' ); Option to alter the refresh interval in seconds for the dashboard widget, one of the following: add_filter( 'wf_cpanel_email_widget_interval', static fn( int $interval ): int => $my_cpanel_widget_interval ); add_filter( 'wf_cpanel_email_widget_interval', static fn( int $interval ) => 45 ); Option to limit email addresses to current site domain, even for single site admins, one of the following const WF_CPANEL_EMAIL_SITE_DOMAIN_ONLY = true; define( 'WF_CPANEL_EMAIL_SITE_DOMAIN_ONLY', true ); add_filter( 'wf_cpanel_email_site_domain_only', '__return_true' ); add_filter( 'wf_cpanel_email_site_domain_only', fn() => true ); Multisite Network: Option not to limit email addresses to current subsite domain, for site admins that are not network (super) admins, one of the following: const WF_CPANEL_EMAIL_SITE_DOMAIN_ONLY = false; define( 'WF_CPANEL_EMAIL_SITE_DOMAIN_ONLY', false ); add_filter( 'wf_cpanel_email_site_domain_only', '__return_false' ); add_filter( 'wf_cpanel_email_site_domain_only', fn() => false ); Many optional parameters and API filters for the shortcode output, see includes/ShortCode.php until further tested and documented If you want to access another user on the server, use one of the following const WF_CPANEL_USER = 'my-username'; define( 'WF_CPANEL_USER', 'my-username' ); If you want to access a remote server, use one of the following const WF_CPANEL_HOST = 'my-host'; define( 'WF_CPANEL_HOST', 'my-host' ); using WF_CPANEL_HOSTrequires WF_CPANEL_USER to also be defined Automaticallly create new accounts when a new user is registered? add_action( ‘user_register’, static function( int $user_id, array $userdata ): void { // What to do just after the registraton here, like this (adds an email address that forwards to all users, a mailing list): if ( method_exists( ‘WebFacing\cPanel\UAPI’, ‘add_forwarder’ ) ) { \WebFacing\cPanel\UAPI::add_forwarder( ‘[email protected], ‘$userdata[‘user_email’] ); } }, 2 ); Site Health Tests and information Check auto detecting and current email routing in an extra Site Health tab (to any email address sent from your server) Possible future features Scheduled automatic removal of old messages in/from mailboxes Import migration list for create account, send instructions and password to current address Delete selected email messages from mailboxes (by selectd message age etc.) Suspend/unsuspend incoming/outgoing for email accounts (if requested) Suspend/unsuspend login to email accounts (if requested) Domain level email forwarding Domain Managament DNS Zone editing Limitations, security, privacy – be warned Maximum New Forwarders = 20, Maximum New Accounts = 5, weekly reset Trial: Maximum New Forwarders as bulk entry = 4, Maximum New Accounts as bulk entry = 2 Now works without shell access! Will not work at all if shell_exec is disabled in php.ini Works only for admins, or other users with a custom cpanel capability and email on site domain (so far) Any admin (if multisite, only network admins), or user with the filtered capability, on a site, can fully access any account on the cPanel® server instance No AYS warnings for delete actions If several sites/admins share the same cPanel® account, without being part of a WP Multisite network, no bulletproof separation, because of the way the cPanel® UAPI CLI works, with or without this plugin Pro Addon Pro Addon plugin was released May 1, 2023 at https://webfacing.eu/plugin/wf-cpanel-email-accounts-pro/ and will unlock in bulk entry new forwarders and new accounts to the numbers in the purchesed license