We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Safe Updates in WP Umbrella! This new feature ensures you can update your WordPress plugins confidently, without worrying about breaking your site.

• Quick Update: The traditional plugin update with a compatibility check.
• Classic Safe Update: Compatibility checks, restore points, uptime monitoring, and automatic rollbacks.
• Advanced Safe Update: Visual Regression monitoring, plus options for manual validation or automatic rollbacks.

We’ve also redesigned our plugin management pages to make updating even smoother!

Check out the safe update documentation and try Safe Updates today.

We can’t wait to hear what you think! Feel free to reach out with any feedback.

Happy updating! 😊

Greetings, WP Umbrella Community!

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news with you! While we're putting the finishing touches on our safe update feature, we've managed to rolled out a few other enhancements that will make your experience with WP Umbrella even better:

We’re now tracking updates made outside of WP Umbrella and including them directly in your reports.

Now, any update to your website—whether through the WordPress backend or WP Umbrella—will be automatically included in the report, giving your clients a complete overview of their site’s activity.

This feature makes it easier to showcase all the maintenance tasks you’re performing on your clients' websites, saving you valuable time when it comes to reporting!

2. Expanded FTP Compatibility for Restorations

In response to your requests, we’ve expanded our restoration capabilities by adding FTP support. While we’ve always supported SFTP/FTPS, this update ensures that you’re covered even if your hosting provider only supports FTP. 

Adding your FTP, SFTP, or FTPS credentials to WP Umbrella will improve the reliability and speed of both the restoration process and our safe update feature.

3. Client Role for Team Management

We’re making collaboration easier with the new client role feature. Now, you can invite your clients to WP Umbrella, giving them access to their backups and specific site data—without exposing the rest of your account.

It’s a secure and professional way to keep your clients informed and involved, about the WordPress maintenance of their site.

 And that's it! As always, we appreciate your support and feedback!

 You can now add more than 1 custom-sending domain to your account, and send reports from different email addresses and domains. If you work with multiple agencies or manage several brands, you’ll love this feature!

Here's how to get started:

1. Authenticate Your Domains: Head to the Custom Sending Domains page to authenticate your additional domains.
   
2. Select Your Domain: During report creation, in the third step (email), choose your new domain in the "Email From" field.

Link toward the full documentation: Customizing the Sending Domain of Maintenance Reports in WP Umbrella

 Hey everyone!

Big news! We've just launched a game-changing update for WP Umbrella that's all about empowering collaboration with the release of our team member feature and making your workflow smoother than ever. Here's what we have introduced: 

🎨 Revamped Dashboard: We've decluttered and spruced up the dashboard for a more intuitive and sleek look. Now, finding what you need is quicker and more pleasing to the eye.

🚀 Introducing Workspaces: In the top-left corner, you'll find the new 'Workspaces' feature. This allows for better project organization and can be shared with your team members, facilitating collaboration. We've created you a workspace by default, that you can customize easily from the workspace settings page.

👥 Team Invitations: With the new team invitation functionality, you can easily expand your collaborative environment by adding team members to your WP Umbrella account. This facilitates smoother communication and collaboration within teams, as all members can access relevant project information and updates in one centralized location. 

🧭 Enhanced Navigation: By moving the navigation menu to the left side, we have aimed to create a more intuitive layout that aligns with common user behaviors and expectations. This change is designed to improve the ease of navigation throughout the application, allowing for quicker access to various features and settings. As we have kept adding new features to WP Umbrella every month, this has became necessary.

↪️ Site Switcher Feature: For users managing multiple sites, the 'Site Switcher' feature simplifies the process of navigating between different projects. This enhancement reduces the time and effort required to manage multiple sites, enabling a more seamless transition and oversight across your projects.

🔄 Individual Site Re-sync: We've introduced the ability to re-sync individual sites, giving you more control and flexibility. This means you can now update the data for a single site without affecting the rest, ensuring your information is always current with minimal disruption.

We're super excited for you to dive into these updates and amp up your WP Umbrella experience. 

Like always, your voice matters to us! We'd love to hear what you think about these updates and any suggestions you have, so feel free to drop us a line by clicking on the new 'Support' button ! 😉

👀 Psst... There's more on the horizon. We're already working on some thrilling new features and interface improvements that we can't wait to share with you soon, so stay tuned!

Thank you for being such an awesome part of the WP Umbrella family. We can't wait to hear your thoughts and keep growing together.

The WP Umbrella Team

Hey there, WP Umbrella family! 🌂✨

We're super excited to share some awesome news with you all! Say hello to our brand new Alerting Center - a game-changer for managing your website's health and security like never before! 🚀

Our team has been working hard behind the scenes to bring you this cool new feature, and we can't wait for you to check it out. The Alerting Center is all about keeping you in the loop with everything that's happening on your sites - from unexpected downtimes to those pesky vulnerabilities that need your attention. Here is what you can be alerted about: 

• Downtime: Be immediately notified if your site goes offline.
• Uptime: Receive alerts when your website is back online.
• Plugin Vulnerabilities: Get alerts about discovered vulnerabilities in your website's plugins.
• Theme Vulnerabilities: Stay informed of any vulnerabilities in your website's themes.
• WordPress Core Vulnerabilities: Know when there's a vulnerability in your website's WordPress version.
• Backup Ready: Receive a notification when your requested backup is ready for download.
• Restoration Status: Get updates on whether site restoration is successful or has failed.

Simple and efficient, this system ensures you're always in the know about your website's status and security. By default, we have activated every alert on your account. The whole documentation for this new alerting center is available here: https://support.wp-umbrella.com/article/99-alerting-system-what-it-is-how-to-use-it

Stay safe and happy managing,

The WP Umbrella Team ☔💙

Today, we're rolling out another new feature at WP Umbrella: Rollback for Plugins. We’ve been working on this, keeping in mind the challenges you face managing WordPress sites.

🔍 What’s This About? After bringing you features like automatic cache clearing and automatic database upgrades for WooCommerce, WordPress, and Elementor, we thought: How can we help them next with update management? The answer is our new Mass Rollback feature.

🛠 Why This Matters We know how tricky managing multiple WordPress sites can be, especially when plugin updates don’t go as planned. Our goal is to give you a tool that helps, not hinders. That's where Rollback comes in, letting you undo updates with ease.

 ✨ Benefits For You:

1. Simpler Management: Undo plugin updates in a few clicks.
2. Save Time: Spend less time fixing issues caused by updates.
3. Stability: Keep your sites running smoothly, even when updates have surprises.

Hey everyone!

We are excited to announce a brand new feature for WP Umbrella: the ability to exclude plugin and theme updates.

We understand that keeping your WordPress site stable and secure is a top priority. With WP Umbrella, we make sure that your site stays up to date with the latest versions of plugins and themes. But sometimes, updating certain plugins or themes can cause unexpected issues.

That’s why we’ve added the ability to exclude certain updates from WP Umbrella. Now, you can choose exactly which plugins and themes you want to update, and which ones you want to keep in their current versions. This way, you can make sure that your site remains stable and secure without having to worry about any unexpected issues.

Updates can be excluded from the update page of every project or from the bulk management tab.

We hope this new feature helps you manage updates more effectively and gives you peace of mind that your site is secure and stable. As always, please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns about using this new feature.

Thanks for being part of the WP Umbrella family!

It's now possible to optimize all your databases with just a few clicks using WP Umbrella! 🚀

👉 What does this mean for you?

Time Savings: Say goodbye to hours lost in manual maintenance. More time for what truly matters - your creativity and your business!

Enhanced Performance: Your sites will be faster and more responsive, offering an unparalleled user experience.

Reduced Space, Lower Costs: Decrease the necessary storage space and, consequently, your hosting costs.

Wishing everyone a great start to the week..! 😉

We're thrilled to announce a new feature that we believe will significantly enhance your website management experience: the Website Notes feature!

📝 What's New:

• Add Personalized Notes: Now, you can easily write down important information directly on your website dashboard. Whether it's maintenance reminders, design ideas, or content strategies, you can keep all your insights in one place.
• Collaborate Efficiently: Share notes with your team to ensure everyone is on the same page and never break a website.

🔍 Why This Matters: This feature is more than just a note-taking tool; it's a way to enhance organization, facilitate effective teamwork, and ensure a thorough understanding of your website's ongoing changes and strategies. It's especially useful for agencies managing multiple client websites, offering a simple yet powerful way to track and communicate important details.

🚀 Get Started: This feature is available now! Simply log in to your dashboard, click on the project of your choice and you'll find the "Add Note" option. 

We're always working to make WP Umbrella more useful for you. Try out this new feature and let us know what you think!

Hey folks,

Here's a quick product update to let you know that you can now delete themes in bulk from WP Umbrella as well!

This new functionality enables you to swiftly and efficiently get rid of all those WordPress themes that you're not using, but which continue to sit on your website. No need to go through them one by one anymore - with just a few clicks, you can clean up your theme library and streamline your site.

Our development team is working at full speed, so stay tuned for more updates as we continue to enhance WP Umbrella to better serve your needs.

Warm regards,

Aurelio