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Using the Manager

Top-to-bottom walkthrough — sign up, add your first site, run a backup, push a schedule, migrate, and check the audit log. ~10 minutes end-to-end.

1. Sign up & first login

  1. Go to wptender.com/signup. Pick a plan (or start with the 7-day Pro trial — no card).
  2. Confirm your email (link arrives via Yandex SMTP).
  3. You land on the Fleet dashboard with zero sites added.

2. Install the WP Tender Agent on your WordPress site

The Manager talks to each WordPress site through the WP Tender Agent plugin. It's bundled with your subscription — nothing extra to buy. You install it once per site, then drive everything from wptender.com.

  1. In the Manager, open Integrations from the sidebar and click Download. You get a single wp-tender.zip.
  2. Open your WordPress admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin. Pick the zip, install, activate.
  3. Open Settings → WP Tender in the WordPress admin sidebar. Paste the activation token from the Manager's Integrations tab and click Save.
  4. The Agent self-verifies. The site appears in your Manager dashboard within a second or two — no extra pair step.

Full Agent install walkthrough with an animated screenshot is on the WP Tender Agent page.

3. Trigger a backup

Two ways:

  • Per-site — open the site detail page → Backup & restore → Trigger. Pick type (full / database / media / pages / posts), optionally label and cloud destination. Hit go.
  • Bulk — on the dashboard, select multiple site cards, click Backup. Step through the wizard: type, optional schedule (one-shot or recurring), destinations. The Manager fires one job per site in parallel.

Every job lands in Jobs with a live progress bar. Failures stay there with the error message.

Backup archives never leave your WordPress site by default — they live in wp-content/uploads/wptp-backups/ on each site. The Manager only stores metadata and (optionally) screenshots. If you wire a cloud destination (S3 / R2 / Drive), the Agent copies straight from your site to your bucket — the Manager never touches the bytes.

4. Push a recurring schedule

  1. Dashboard → Backup wizard → check Recurring.
  2. Pick frequency (hourly / daily / weekly / monthly / yearly).
  3. Choose Keep last N copies.
  4. Pick the target sites.

The Manager pushes the schedule to the Agent on each site; the Agent's own WP-Cron runs it. The Manager's job is just to push the schedule and monitor results.

If your hosting has stale WP-Cron (quiet sites where cron doesn't fire reliably), flip the Server-cron pulse toggle on the site detail page — the Manager will hit wp-cron.php on a real interval from our servers.

5. Connect a cloud destination

  1. On the site detail page → Backup & restore → Cloud.
  2. Pick a provider: Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, or Google Drive.
  3. Enter the credentials (the Manager forwards them straight to the Agent; we don't store them server-side).
  4. From now on every backup gets an off-site copy.

6. Site-to-site migration

  1. Dashboard → Migrate.
  2. Pick source + target (both must have the Agent installed and be paired with the Manager).
  3. Confirm. The Manager hands the target's ops token to the source, which takes a fresh full backup, ships the chunks, and triggers auto-restore on the target.
  4. Progress streams to the Jobs page. Both source and target land an audit-log entry tagged with the Manager URL.

Heads up: migration restore copies the source database wholesale, which includes the target's activation token. Re-paste the activation token on the target after migration completes.

7. Recurring monitoring

  • Live status — site cards show CPU, RAM (PHP heap), disk, last backup, plugin versions. Updates every 5 min.
  • Uptime — Manager pings every site on its own cadence. Transitions log automatically (email and in-app alerts on flips).
  • Home preview — one-click homepage screenshot of every site. Spot defaced or broken sites without leaving the dashboard.
  • Activity timeline — every backup, restore, migration and screenshot lands in Jobs.

8. SMTP & notification routing

Configure your sending account (Gmail / Microsoft 365 / Yandex / any SMTP) once in the Manager's Settings → SMTP. All notifications (backup failed, site down, license events) are sent from the Manager itself — your WordPress sites don't need their own SMTP setup.

9. Plugin management

Open any site → Plugins tab to see the full WordPress plugin inventory. Filter by Active / Inactive / Updates available, activate or deactivate a plugin, or trigger a one-click update — all without leaving the Manager. Every action lands in the per-site audit log on the WordPress side too.

10. Log Manager

One chronological feed for every site, sourced from the Agent. Filter by feature (backup / restore / migration / security / plugins / cron), severity (info / warning / error) or keyword. Especially useful for sweeping across the fleet to spot the one site that started failing last night.

11. Notification preferences

Per-site rules for which events trigger alerts (backup failed, license expiring, site down…) and through which channels (in-app, email). The Manager owns the rules — the Agent just reports raw events.

12. Subscriptions & billing

Manager-side billing runs through Freemius. Open Subscriptions in the sidebar to compare plans, start a trial, or upgrade. Card details never touch our servers — Freemius hosts the checkout iframe and sends us a signed webhook when the licence state changes.

13. Audit & security

  • Every write the Manager performs against a site is logged on the site itself with a [manager-url] prefix. Customers always know what was done remotely.
  • Activation tokens are AES-256-GCM-encrypted at rest in the Manager database.
  • Sila admin panel (/Sila) is operator-only — separate authentication, blocked from AI crawlers, never indexed.
  • All inbound traffic goes through Cloudflare with origin certificate pinning.

Got stuck?

Open a ticket from the marketing site contact form or your dashboard. Replies land in your inbox within one business day.