Site Updates Report is a robust WordPress maintenance solution built for agencies, developers, and website care providers who need an efficient way to create professional client reports.
It automatically records WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates, then turns that data into clean, well-designed reports that clearly showcase the ongoing value of your maintenance work.
Site Updates Report is a WordPress plugin available on WordPress.org.
Effortless WordPress Maintenance Reports for Agencies and Developers
Explore the core features of Site Updates Report:
Learn more and download Site Updates Report for free on WordPress.org.
Who Benefits from Site Updates Report?
Whether you are a solo developer or part of a larger technical team, this tool is designed to turn your “hidden” maintenance tasks into a professional asset.
WordPress Freelancers & Solopreneurs
If you’re a “team of one,” admin is your biggest enemy.
Stop wasting your evenings manually compiling spreadsheets. This plugin automates your client reporting, allowing you to scale your business and take on more retainers without increasing your workload.
Digital & Web Agencies
For agencies, consistency and branding are everything.
Standardise your reporting across your entire client base. Send professional, white-labelled PDF reports that reinforce your agency’s value every month. It’s a simple way to reduce client churn and justify high-value maintenance contracts.
The Problem: The High Cost of “Invisible” Maintenance
For many freelancers and agencies, WordPress maintenance is a double-edged sword. You spend hours ensuring sites are secure and performant, yet to the client, your best work is often invisible.
Why Your Current Workflow is Costing You:
- The “What Am I Paying For?” Factor: Without a tangible paper trail, clients struggle to see the value in their monthly retainer. If the site doesn’t break, they assume you’ve done nothing.
- The Manual Reporting Drain: Tracking down plugin versions and manually typing out update logs is a massive time-sink. It’s unbillable admin that eats into your profit margins.
- Lack of Accountability: If a site goes down after a series of updates, searching for the “smoking gun” without an audit log is a nightmare. Relying on memory isn’t a business strategy.
Stop Doing Work You Can’t Prove
Most reporting tools are either too “bloated” – sending clients confusing spreadsheets they’ll never read—or too expensive, requiring a monthly SaaS subscription. This leaves a gap where professional, branded, and automated reporting should be.
If you aren’t documenting your updates, you’re performing invisible work. To a client, if it isn’t in a report, it didn’t happen.
Example Use Case
XYZ Digital manages WordPress maintenance for over 50 client websites. Before using Site Updates Report, their team spent hours each month manually logging updates for core WordPress, plugins, and themes – often missing details or struggling to recall what had been completed weeks prior. This manual approach was time-consuming, error-prone, and didn’t scale as their client base expanded.
After implementing Site Updates Report, all WordPress, plugin, and theme updates are tracked automatically in the background. At the end of each month, XYZ Digital generates detailed client reports showing exactly what was updated, when it was updated, and version changes. This clear reporting not only saves time but also helps clients understand the maintenance work performed, reinforcing the ongoing value of proactive WordPress website maintenance.
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