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WordPress monitor for the plugin-conflict theme update that quietly broke checkout on Black-Friday morning.
A WordPress site rarely goes hard-down. It goes wrong-on-checkout because a payment-plugin update met a PHP-version bump and the cart page now answers in nine seconds. SiteGuardian watches the URLs a buyer types, on a minute cadence, before the next plugin update becomes the next refund queue.
- Watches your WordPress home page, /cart, /checkout, and wp-admin login as separate URLs.
- Tight slow threshold on /checkout. 1.5 seconds is sane for most stores.
- Probes every minute on Pro. Fast enough to catch the plugin-update day /checkout tipped above threshold.
- SSL expiry alerts on every plan. A renewing cert is the most common silent breakage on WordPress.
- No WordPress plugin to install, no wp-config edit, no PHP-version mutex to set.
How it works
Setup, in three beats.
Step 01
Add the URL a paying shopper types first
Paste your home page, /cart, /checkout, and the wp-admin login. Set a tight slow threshold on /checkout (1.5 seconds is sane) and a slightly looser one on /cart. SiteGuardian starts probing inside the next minute, no WordPress plugin required.
Step 02
Let the alerts catch the plugin-update day
Most WordPress slowdowns come from a payment-gateway plugin update, a PHP-version bump, or a heavier theme merged into a child theme. The minute cadence catches the day the change happened, before the partial-charge ticket reaches your support inbox.
Step 03
Catch the gateway failure before the partial-charge queue starts
A /checkout that returns 500 on Black-Friday morning loses the spend and starts a partial-charge queue by lunch. SiteGuardian probes every minute on Pro, so the email reaches your inbox the second the page stops — before the refunds roll in next morning.
What the alert actually says
One email. One URL. One timestamp.
Your URL https://yourstore.com/checkout/ answered with HTTP 502 at 11:47 UTC, immediately after the WooCommerce Payments 7.4.1 update. The probe will retry in 60 seconds.Frequently asked
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Starter is $19 a month — one site, ten URLs, every-five-minute checks. Pro is $39 a month — three sites, fifty URLs, every-minute checks. Lifetime is $299 paid once and stays yours with every future update included.
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