WordPress Monitoring

WordPress powers over 40% of the web, but plugins, themes, and updates can break your site at any time. SiteMonitor watches your WordPress site around the clock: uptime, performance, content integrity, and server health. No plugin required.

How it works

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Add your site URL

Enter your WordPress site URL and choose your check interval. No plugin required, and set up takes less than a minute.

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We monitor continuously

SiteMonitor checks your WordPress site every minute, covering uptime, performance, SSL, and content.

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Get alerted instantly

If your site goes down, slows down, or content changes unexpectedly, you get an alert within a minute.

Why monitor your WordPress site?

WordPress is flexible and powerful, but that flexibility comes with risk. Plugin updates can cause fatal errors. Theme conflicts can break your layout. Automated attacks can deface your content or inject malicious code. And WP-Cron, WordPress's built-in task scheduler, can silently stop running without anyone noticing.

SiteMonitor gives you peace of mind by continuously checking your WordPress site from the outside, the same way your visitors experience it. You'll know about problems within a minute, not hours.

What you can monitor

  • Uptime monitoring every minute
  • Response time tracking for pages and admin panel
  • SSL certificate expiry monitoring
  • Cron job monitoring for WP-Cron scheduled tasks
  • Error reporting for PHP errors and white screens
  • Keyword monitoring to detect defacements or content changes
  • Server health monitoring for CPU, memory, and disk usage
  • Instant alerts via email, Slack, WhatsApp, SMS, and webhooks

Why SiteMonitor for WordPress?

Everything you need, nothing you don't.

Detect hacks and defacements

WordPress sites are frequent targets for hacks and defacement. Keyword monitoring verifies that your pages still contain the expected content and alerts you if something changes unexpectedly.

WP-Cron monitoring

WordPress relies on WP-Cron for scheduled posts, plugin updates, and background tasks. SiteMonitor tracks these jobs and alerts you when they fail.

Error reporting

Catch the WordPress "white screen of death," PHP fatal errors, and plugin conflicts before visitors see them.

Post-update performance tracking

Plugins and theme updates can break your site. Monitor response times to catch performance regressions after updates.

Frequently asked questions

WordPress powers over 40% of the web, which makes it a popular target for attacks. It also relies on plugins and themes that can conflict, break during updates, or introduce security vulnerabilities. With monitoring in place, you catch downtime, defacements, and performance issues before they affect your visitors or search rankings.
No. SiteMonitor works entirely externally. It monitors your site from the outside, just like your visitors experience it. No WordPress plugin is required for uptime, performance, SSL, or keyword monitoring. For server health monitoring, you install a lightweight agent on your server (not a WordPress plugin).
SiteMonitor's keyword monitoring can detect content changes on your pages. If a hacker defaces your site or injects spam content, keyword monitoring will alert you when expected content disappears or unexpected content appears. This catches many common types of WordPress hacks.
WordPress uses WP-Cron to handle scheduled tasks like publishing posts, sending emails, and running plugin background jobs. SiteMonitor's cron monitoring tracks these scheduled tasks and alerts you if they stop running or run late.
Yes. By continuously monitoring uptime and response times, SiteMonitor will alert you immediately if a plugin or theme update causes your site to crash or significantly slow down. This lets you roll back the update before it affects all your visitors.
Yes. SiteMonitor works with any WordPress hosting, whether that's shared hosting, VPS, managed WordPress hosts (like WP Engine, Kinsta, or Flywheel), or self-hosted setups. The external monitoring works the same regardless of your hosting provider.

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