Built for WordPress
WordPress uptime monitoring. Know the second a plugin update breaks your homepage.
A WordPress site breaks in a lot of small ways. A plugin update ships with a deprecation warning the host cannot see. A theme change quietly breaks the contact form. SiteGuardian probes the URL a visitor types, once a minute, and emails you the second it stops.
- Probe the homepage, /wp-admin, /login, and any post URL. Minute cadence on Pro.
- No WordPress plugin to install; works on any front-end URL you can paste into a form.
- SSL cert expiry watcher. Most managed hosts auto-renew, and the renewals fail silently.
- Weekly broken-link check on your outbound link list. Catches the partner page that went 404.
- Quiet inbox by default: one email per outage, one recovery email per come-back.
Failure modes, watched
The WordPress outages SiteGuardian actually catches.
Three WordPress-specific failure modes, each mapped to the SiteGuardian feature that watches for it. Read the failure first; the link takes you straight to the feature page.
Failure mode
A plugin update that broke the homepage without warning
WordPress auto-updates a background plugin and one of its hooks throws on the homepage. Your home page answers 200, but the layout is mangled. SiteGuardian adds your homepage, /contact, and any revenue-bearing post to the URL list. Each with its own slow-threshold.
Watched by SiteGuardian → Broken link monitorFailure mode
A theme-conflict after a routine core update
A core WordPress update nudges a deprecation that the active theme did not catch. The theme looks fine in the editor and goes blank on the live domain. SiteGuardian probes the live URL, not your staging copy. The second it stops answering, the same one email reaches your inbox.
Watched by SiteGuardian → Website down alertsFailure mode
An SSL cert that quietly lapsed because the renewal email went to spam
Most managed hosts auto-renew. The renewal can fail silently on a billing-card fail or a renewal email that nobody opens. SiteGuardian pings the cert path daily and emails you at 90 / 30 / 7 / 1 days out, before the browser’s red warning page renders.
Watched by SiteGuardian → SSL expiry monitor
How it works
Setup, in three beats.
Step 01
Add the URL a reader types to find you
Paste the home page URL and the post URL that sends search traffic. SiteGuardian starts probing inside the next minute. There is no plugin to install, no wp-config to edit, no shared admin secret to paste. The watch runs from the network edge.
Step 02
Add the URLs worth watching; tune the slow-threshold
The homepage, /about, /contact, and the /blog post from last month. Set a tight 1.5-second slow-threshold on the homepage and a slightly looser one on the rest. SiteGuardian treats each URL independently and trips the right alert.
Step 03
Let the cert watch + link check run in the background
The two WordPress failure modes nobody sees coming are a failed cert renewal and a partner-page that went 404. SiteGuardian pings the cert daily and the link list weekly. Both in plain sentence, both into the same inbox.
What the alert actually says
One email. One URL. One timestamp.
Your URL https://example.com/about answered with HTTP 502 at 14:38 UTC. The probe will retry in 60 seconds.Frequently asked
The WordPress questions, answered flat.
Frequently asked
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Starter is $19 a month. One WordPress site, ten URLs, every-five-minute checks. Pro is $39 a month if you have more than one site and want them all watched from one inbox. Lifetime is $299 paid once and stays yours with every future update included.
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