UpdraftCentral Dashboard
Remote, single-dashboard management for WordPress/theme/plugin updates and UpdraftPlus backups across all your WP sites
4.5(22 reviews)
·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 week agoAs of April 2026, UpdraftCentral Dashboard is a WordPress remote control plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 22 reviews. It has been downloaded 269K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 40% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%.
4.5/522 reviews
6.0K+active installs
100%resolved
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
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 W…
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Recent Reviews
Seems to have been abandoned
by babrees·1 year ago·1 reply
I did try to install it and followed the instructions but couldn’t get it to work. No response from support forum
Great shame, especially as it appears to be by the Updraft people
It saved all my web sites without any issues
by william2laclique·3 years ago
I’ve used “UpdraftPlus Backup/Restore” plugin with all my web sites since 6 years.
I’ve tried severals other backup plugins solutions but “UpdraftPlus Backup/Restore” is the only one I can trust and use with ease!
Brilliant solution, but seems to hang sometines
by clausfaber·5 years ago
This solution is brilliant. Sometimes, when you update too many things at once, it runs into a “communication failure” and the updated website hangs in maintainance mode. A manual fix from the dashboard in the hung site is necessary. Nothing broken though.
Nice idea but not useful for me
by tommcgee·6 years ago
There seems to be a problem, maybe having to do with self-signed certificates. I understand the value of using a cert authority, but my hosting provider charges serious money for certs (I also understand I need a host that supports Let’s Encrypt!) and the sites I’m running aren’t revenue sources.
Sometimes updates, for example, would work. Or, I would set up a site, and it would be OK through the dashboard, but the next day it would just return errors. Sometimes I could see Advanced Tools, sometimes an error message. And this is for sites all running on the same host.
More than that, it’s just a guess what the problem is. The logging is completely unhelpful. It gives no information about errors — it doesn’t report errors at all, only successes.
Disabling for now…
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Revisiting this plugin, I installed “Let’s Encrypt” certs on the sites I manage. It works fine on most of them now. The only exception is a blog that’s running on Site5 — there might be a firewall or something in between. But for the rest of them it’s proving to be really helpful. Adding a star.
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Thank you for updating the UI — it’s MUCH easier to read and work with now. Adding another star…
Works as advertised
by Sean·6 years ago
Makes life so much easier!
Download Trends
Today: 20Yesterday: 31This week: 386Period total: 17K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v0.8
99.6%
Other
0.4%
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
0.8.30 – 27/Mar/2024
- FIX: “Manage Themes” items list is broken when anchor links are present in the displayed description
- FIX: Convert to InnoDB table not working under the WP-Optimize module’s “Table Info” area
- FIX: Select/deselect buttons not working when choosing WordPress database tables for backup
- FIX: UpdraftCentral unresponsive after closing the “test connection methods” dialog
- TWEAK: Add WP-Optimize action button (tab) images
…and 17 more changes
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