UpdraftCentral Dashboard
by David Anderson / Team Updraft · WordPress.org page · Website
UpdraftCentral Dashboard has 5,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 283,482 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on August 13, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.
UpdraftCentral Dashboard at a glance
Is UpdraftCentral Dashboard well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Run Google Analytics to get an instant overview of important KPIs from all sites
- Easily manage comments on all your sites from one place
- Manage users, giving different levels of access
- Create tags to organize websites into different categories
- Fully supported via a fast, professional ticketed support service and active forum
- Manage (activate, deactivate or delete) plugins from one or multiple websites all in one place
- Install one or more plugins straight from wordpress.org and automatically activate them
- Manage themes, choose and set your default theme easily and automatically
- Search, choose and click to install themes to one or multiple websites
UpdraftCentral Dashboard reviews and ratings
22 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
22 reviews
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Seems to have been abandoned
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
babrees -
It saved all my web sites without any issues
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!
william2laclique -
Nice idea but not useful for me
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... ------- 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. ----------- Thank you for updating the UI -- it's MUCH easier to read and work with now. Adding another star...
tommcgee -
Brilliant solution, but seems to hang sometines
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.
clausfaber -
Works as advertised
Makes life so much easier!
Sean -
Great time saver
Having over 20 WP sites to manage, this plugin saves me a great deal of time - enabling me to get on with other development work. Without it I'd have to login to each site, determine what needs to be updated etc., do the updates and log out. With UpdraftCentral Dashboard it takes a fraction of the time - brilliant. Prior to using this plugin I used other similar solutions, but none were as fully featured or reliable as this. Keep up the great work.
kendallinternet
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Details
Remote, single-dashboard management for WordPress/theme/plugin updates and UpdraftPlus backups across all your WP sites
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- management dashboard
- multiple site management
- remote control
- remote dashboard
- remote management
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- Version
- 0.8.33
- Last updated
- Aug 13, 2026
- First published
- Mar 31, 2016
- Requires WordPress
- 4.6
- Tested up to
- 7.1
- Requires PHP
- 5.6
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
UpdraftCentral Dashboard FAQ
What does UpdraftCentral Dashboard do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, UpdraftCentral Dashboard offers Run Google Analytics to get an instant overview of important KPIs from all sites, Easily manage comments on all your sites from one place, Manage users, giving different levels of access, Create tags to organize websites into different categories and Fully supported via a fast, professional ticketed support service and active forum.
How many active installs does UpdraftCentral Dashboard have?
WordPress.org reports 5,000+ active installs for UpdraftCentral Dashboard as of September 7, 2026.
Is UpdraftCentral Dashboard still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on August 13, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Does UpdraftCentral Dashboard have good support?
On the WordPress.org forum, 1 of 1 recent support threads for UpdraftCentral Dashboard are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.
Is UpdraftCentral Dashboard free?
UpdraftCentral Dashboard is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.