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Guides for every part of WP Foreman: connecting sites, backups, updates, the API and the Foreman. Written as we build it.
Getting started
10 articlesSign in, connect your first site and find your way around.
- Getting started for beta testers
- What is WP Foreman?
- Signing in
- Add and connect a site
- Finding your way around
- Set your timezone
Sites & the plugin
10 articlesWhat the WP Foreman plugin does on your sites, and how to manage connections.
- What the WP Foreman plugin does (and doesn’t)
- Sign in to wp-admin in one click
- Update the WP Foreman plugin
- Plugins, themes and versions
- Disconnecting a site
- Troubleshooting a connection
Backups
12 articlesEncrypted, incremental backups kept for 90 days. Schedules, exclusions and restores.
- How backups work
- Run a backup now
- Backup schedule
- Choose what gets backed up
- Tables from other sites in the same database
- Backup emails
Plugins, themes & updates
5 articlesInstall, activate, update and delete plugins and themes on one site or across all of them, with a backup first.
Analytics
2 articlesSee each site's traffic from your own Google Analytics, Plausible or Umami.
Uptime
2 articlesMinute-by-minute checks from Cloudflare's network, confirmed from more than one region, plus SSL and domain expiry warnings.
Performance
2 articlesDaily Google PageSpeed tests on mobile and desktop, Core Web Vitals from real visitors, and what to fix first.
Client reports
2 articlesPlain-English reports for your clients: updates, backups, uptime, speed and traffic for any dates.
Log, rules & reports
7 articlesThe permanent record of everything that happens on your sites, the rules that run the crew while you're away, and the reports built from them.
- The site log
- Know when someone changes a site
- How rules work
- Rules reference
- Rule recipes
- Rules: safety, history and pausing
Security & privacy
4 articlesHow we connect to your sites, what we store and how backups are protected.
The Foreman & MCP
3 articlesRun your sites by chat, from WP Foreman or from Claude and ChatGPT.
API
6 articlesREST API reference: tokens, sites, backups, restores, plugins and updates.
Changelog
1 articleWhat shipped and when.