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Kadence Central – Site Management, Backups, Security, and Reporting icon
Actively maintained Tested up to 7.0.6 #984 most installed plugin #24 in backup

Kadence Central – Site Management, Backups, Security, and Reporting

Manage multiple WordPress sites from one dashboard.

Active installs30K+10K+ tier
Downloads · 30d6.8K▼ -69.8% vs prev. 30d
Rating4.2/55 reviews
Health score71/100Good
All-time downloads1.5MSince Jun 2017
Support resolved1 / 250% in last 2 months
RequiresWP 6.4PHP 7.0+
Overall rank#984of 69,566 plugins
Our verdict

Solid choice

Kadence Central is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 30K+ sites, is rated 4.2/5 and was last updated 1 month ago, and scores 71/100 on our health check.

  • Proven at scale on 30K+ active sites

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

2.5K5K7.4KJun 29Aug 12Sep 26
Yesterday117
Daily average (1y)333
Peak day9,923Aug 20, 2026
Last 12 months121.1K

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where Kadence Central stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
backup #28 3,407 Best backup plugins →
manage multiple websites #5 3,306 Best manage multiple websites plugins →
manage updates #9 7,486 Best manage updates plugins →
report dashboard #16 5,706 Best report dashboard plugins →
security #43 10,000 Best security plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 4.073.7%
  • 3.212.9%
  • 2.15.9%
  • Other7.5%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 from 5 reviews

  • 5★80.0%
  • 4★0.00%
  • 3★0.00%
  • 2★0.00%
  • 1★20.0%

About Kadence Central

From the official readme · v4.0.3

Description

🏢 Your Headquarters for Multi-site Management

What do you get when you use Kadence Central to manage and maintain all your WordPress websites from one dashboard? Real-time visibility. Improved time management. Increased productivity. Enhanced performance for the websites you manage. And, you raise the bar on what you can deliver for your clients.

📊 One Central Dashboard to Save You Loads of Time

No more logging into each individual website to view important website data or perform remote WordPress admin actions. Kadence Central lets you manage multiple WordPress websites from one dashboard while also allowing you to easily switch to individual view to perform site-specific admin functions when necessary.

What can you do quickly and easily with Kadence Central?

  • Stay on Top of WordPress Updates – WordPress updates are important for the security and efficiency of WordPress websites. Kadence Central completely changes the way you update your WordPress sites—update dozens of sites with one click.
  • Bulk Install Themes and Plugins From WordPress.org or Zip Upload – Search and install from WordPress.org and view your WordPress.org profile favorites. Upload theme or plugin zip files or install themes and plugins directly from your Kadence Central membership.
  • WordPress Uptime Monitoring – Monitor WordPress uptime, downtime & overall performance for all your WordPress websites. Get notification emails when sites go down and view a history of your overall WordPress performance. View uptime stats such as total uptime percentage, total downtime, and number of downtimes for WordPress performance monitoring.
  • WordPress Post & Page Manager – View a list of current posts and pages on your site, including the title, author, date last modified, focus keyword, SEO score and SEO readability.
  • Remotely Login to WordPress & Switch Between User Accounts – Quickly jump to the WordPress Admin dashboard of your WordPress site where you’ll be instantly logged in from Kadence Central. You can also switch between any WordPress user account registered on the site without sharing password info.
  • WordPress Comment Manager – View all comments (all, approved, pending, spam, trash) and unapprove, mark as spam, or move comments to trash.
  • WordPress Database Optimizations – Make sure your WordPress sites are running efficiently with WordPress optimizations. Central handles actions like cleaning out post revisions, spam comments and more.
  • SEO Checker + Google Analytics & Google Search Console Reports – Track key SEO metrics with Central’s SEO Checker and Google Analytics & Google Search Console integration. Central integrates with the Yoast SEO plugin to give you an overview of the health of your SEO efforts.
  • Remote WordPress Backups – Run remote backups and restore with Central’s integration with Kadence Backups, our WordPress backup plugin.

🔐 Enhancing WordPress Site Security with Kadence Central

Improve security for all your WordPress websites by integrating Kadence Security with Kadence Central.

  • WordPress User Manager – WordPress user management in Kadence Central allows you to view all users on a website, edit user profiles and delete users remotely. With Central’s Client Dashboard, you can customize how certain users see the WordPress dashboard.
  • Two-factor Authentication – Add an extra layer of protection to your Central dashboard login with two-factor authentication. Once enabled, Central will require both a password AND an SMS code sent to your mobile device to log in to the Central Dashboard.
  • Whitelist Your IP Address (Kadence Security integration) – Temporarily whitelist your IP Address remotely so you don’t get locked out of your website by the Kadence Security plugin’s Bad Users feature.
  • Release Kadence Security Lockouts (Kadence Security integration) – View and release any current Kadence Security lockouts.

💻 Features Designed for Freelancers and Agencies

Central Pro was made for anyone managing multiple WordPress sites. If you’re building sites for clients, you’ll love how Central makes caring for client sites easier and more profitable.

  • WordPress Maintenance Reports – Central Pro includes in-depth WordPress maintenance reporting to show the work involved in maintaining WordPress websites. Email clients beautiful HTML email reports with a summary of update actions you took to keep their site running smoothly.
  • Customize the WordPress dashboard for clients/users – With Central Pro, you get Client Dashboard, a WordPress role manager that controls which menu items your clients see in their WordPress dashboard. Don’t want them to have access to plugins, themes or settings? Simplify their dashboard so they only see what they need — like posts and pages.
  • Show/Hide Central From the WP Dashboard – To keep your clients or other site users from messing with your Central authentication or removing the plugin, you can choose to hide or show the plugin in the WordPress dashboard of each site you manage with Central.
  • Share Your Central Dashboard with Another User – If you have other people on your team that you’d like to task with helping you maintain sites, this feature is a great way to help you easily delegate your workload to other team members.
  • Site Notes and Tags – Central’s Notes feature is a handy way to keep notations about your Centraled sites. For example, if you added customizations to theme or plugin files that could be lost with an update, add a reminder. Tag business sites, personal sites, client sites, live, non-live or however you want to be able identify your sites.

📈 WordPress Maintenance Reports for Clients

Make steady, reliable income for WordPress maintenance with Kadence Central Pro’s WordPress Maintenance Reports.

  • Show Clients the Value of What You Do – Detailed website reports are one of the best ways to show clients the value of a monthly WordPress maintenance plan. Central Pro’s WordPress Maintenance Reports handle the hard work of compiling all the update actions you took, so you can justify the value of what you do.
  • White-label Report Emails – Upload your own logo and set custom colors for the header, footer and button color of report emails to better match your company’s branding.
  • Summarize Update Actions to WordPress Core, Themes & Plugins + More Website Stats – Reports include all update actions taken within a certain timeframe, both from the Central dashboard and the WordPress dashboard. See a full list of all of the stats included in Central’s WordPress reports.
  • Schedule Reports to Automatically Run & Deliver Report Emails – Reports can run on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, and then automatically email reports to clients.
  • Email Beautiful, Interactive HTML Reports to Clients – Reports are delivered as beautiful, interactive HTML reports so clients can get a visual summary of the WordPress maintenance you provide. Central handles compiling and organizing update actions and key website stats. See a WordPress maintenance report demo.
  • SEO Reporting – Summarize key SEO Stats stats in an easy-to-digest format — showing how your client’s sites are doing in Google and where they can improve. See a WordPress SEO report demo.

☑️ WordPress Updates

  • Daily Notification Emails – Get a daily summary of available WordPress updates as a helpful reminder to log in and run updates. Customize the delivery time of your daily notification emails to fit your schedule.
  • One-Click Update All – View a summary of all available updates for all your websites and then update them all with one click.
  • View Plugin Changelogs – View update logs that include all updates made in Central, including the date of the update, previous version number and new version number.
  • View Updates by Site – The in-depth individual site view gives you a detailed view of the available updates for that site, with more WordPress site management action options.
  • Sort Updates By Theme or Plugin – View a listing of individual themes and plugins you have installed on your websites along with available update information.
  • Ignore Update Option – If you’ve made customizations to your themes and plugins, an update could overwrite your work. Choose to ignore updates for specific themes and plugins.

🔗 Integrations

  • WordPress.org – Search and install themes and plugins from WordPress.org remotely from Central. View your WordPress.org profile favorites to save time.
  • Kadence Backups – Run remote WordPress backups, download your latest backup file, view number of edits since your last Kadence Backups backup.
  • Kadence Backups Stash – View, download and delete your Kadence Backups Stash backups, and view a graph of the total amount of Stash space you’ve used.
  • Kadence Security – Temporarily Whitelist your IP Address remotely so you don’t get locked out of the website. View and release any Kadence Security lockouts.
  • Google Analytics – Track Google Analytics for multiple WordPress sites. View key metrics from Google Analytics such as traffic, landing pages, keywords, sessions and referrer URLS.
  • Google Search Console – Get a quick summary of Google Search Console data, view search analytics, crawl errors and sitemaps info.
  • Yoast SEO – Central’s SEO Checker feature integrates with the Yoast SEO Plugin so you can quickly see the SEO status of the content on your WordPress website.
  • Gravity Forms – From Central, you can view all the forms you’ve created in Gravity Forms for that site. You can also quickly see how many responses and views each form has received.
  • WP101 Plugin – Easily add a complete series of WordPress onboarding tutorial videos to the WordPress dashboard of your client sites with Central’s WP101 plugin integration.

License

This file is part of Kadence Central. This plugin is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

DISCLAIMER: Under no circumstances do we release this plugin with any warranty, implied or otherwise. We cannot be held responsible for any damage that might arise from the use of this plugin.

Installation

  1. Signup for Kadence Central.
  2. Follow the normal WordPress plugin installation method to install the Kadence Central plugin on your WordPress website.
  3. Follow the steps to add your first website to Kadence Central.

For more detailed instructions, check out the Kadence Central Quick Setup Guide.

Frequently asked questions

Is Kadence Central free?

Kadence Central requires an active subscription (monthly or annual) in order for it to work. You can signup today, test it out, and if you are unsatisfied reach out to our team to ask about our 30-day refund policy. Our plans start with the ability to manage 5 sites for $6.99/month. If you need additional sites, you can.

Do you offer support?

Yes. We handle support for Kadence Central users both from the WordPress.org forum and from the Kadence Help Desk. The Kadence Help Desk offers private, ticketed support to protect your privacy.

Is Kadence Central secure?

Yes. Kadence Central uses industry-standard SSL technology to encrypt all communication between your Central dashboard and the client sites you connect to it. Only Central account holders and the users they add can access the Central dashboard once they log in. You can require two-factor authentication to be used to access the Central dashboard.

Does Kadence Central work with WordPress.com sites?

WordPress.com offers free website and paid website. Free websites on WordPress.com do not have the ability to install plugins. Paid WordPress.com plans do. Kadence Central requires the use of this free plugin and therefore Kadence Central only works on paid WordPress.com websites, not free ones.

Help! I’m having problems adding a site to Sync.

Kadence Central includes an automatic “Add Site” prompt when you first login to the Central dashboard. If this authentication method fails, try manually installing the Kadence Central plugin on your WordPress site. Make sure to login to Kadence Central and then follow the prompt from the Kadence Central plugin to add your credentials. If you still need help, please open a ticket at the Kadence Help Desk. Got more questions? Contact us!

Changelog

4.0.3

  • Tweak: Site connections are now started from the Kadence Central dashboard.

4.0.2

  • Tweak: Update updater library to v2.0.3.

4.0.1

  • Tweak: Update updater library to v2.0.2.

4.0.0

  • Tweak: Updated branding from SolidWP to Kadence.

3.2.9

  • Retired: Retired post/page duplication functionality.

3.2.8

  • New: Add filter to return Central IPs.

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

Screenshots

Kadence Central dashboard home screen lsiting multiple WordPress websites and actionable data cards
Kadence Central dashboard home screen lsiting multiple WordPress websites and actionable…
Individual site view with remote WordPress admin actions
Individual site view with remote WordPress admin actions
Updates view with listing of themes/plugins and available WordPress core updates
Updates view with listing of themes/plugins and available WordPress core updates
Bulk install themes and plugins across multiple sites via zip upload and WordPress.org search
Bulk install themes and plugins across multiple sites via zip upload and WordPress.org…
Run remote backups and download backup files remotely with Kadence Backups integration
Run remote backups and download backup files remotely with Kadence Backups integration
Update sites on the go with mobile-optimized dashboard
Update sites on the go with mobile-optimized dashboard

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FAQ

Kadence Central: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 27, 2026

Is Kadence Central free?

Yes. Kadence Central is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Kadence Central safe to use in 2026?

Kadence Central is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 30K+ sites, is rated 4.2/5 and was last updated 1 month ago, and scores 71/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Kadence Central?

Kadence Central is active on 30K+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 1,459,375 times since it launched in June 2017. It was downloaded 6,785 times in the last 30 days.

Does Kadence Central work with WordPress 7.1?

Kadence Central is officially tested up to WordPress 7.0.6, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

What PHP version does Kadence Central need?

Kadence Central requires PHP 7.0 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was Kadence Central last updated?

The latest version, 4.0.3, was released on August 19, 2026 (1 month ago).

Who makes Kadence Central?

Kadence Central is developed and maintained by Nexcess.

What are the best alternatives to Kadence Central?

The most popular alternatives to Kadence Central are All-in-One WP Migration and… (5M+ installs), UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Mi… (4M+ installs) and Jetpack (3M+ installs).

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