Modular DS is an all-in-one WordPress management platform built for agencies, freelancers, and hosting providers to easily manage multiple sites, save time, and run a profitable maintenance business.

From a single dashboard, or directly from your favorite AI assistant using the Modular DS MCP server, you can:

• Bulk manage and update plugins, themes, and WordPress core across multiple sites at once.
• Monitor uptime and performance with real-time alerts.
• Schedule automatic backups and restore them in one click from Modular DS.
• Know how likely a plugin update is to break your site before applying it with Update Copilot, our AI-powered risk scoring system.
• Run quick or safe updates and automate them with smart rules based on version type, risk level, or detected vulnerabilities.
• Perform vulnerability and malware scans.
• Detect and fix broken links and images.
• Migrate, clone, and create staging environments.
• Optimize your WordPress databases right from Modular DS.
• Generate automated reports, including pre-maintenance reports, to show the value of your work to clients.
• Display a custom maintenance mode page to hide unfinished changes while you update or work on a site.

Modular DS is the strongest alternative to ManageWP, MainWP, WP Umbrella, InfiniteWP, and WP Remote, bringing smart automation tools, monitoring, backups, security, and reporting into a single platform.

Usability and support are at the heart of everything we do. Our team brings over a decade of hands-on experience in WordPress site management and is always ready to help when you need it.

Explore more features on our website or try it for free.

Manage, monitor, and protect all your WordPress sites in one place

Connect your WordPress sites to Modular DS, access them with one-click login, and manage updates, backups, security scans, uptime monitoring, and more in a single dashboard.

Stay organized with tags and teams, and assign custom roles and permissions to collaborators.

Bulk management and updates

Install, update, activate, or delete plugins, themes, and WordPress versions across multiple websites at once (or one by one).

The global updater also gives you a full picture of what’s happening across your sites: detected vulnerabilities, Update Copilot risk scores, warnings for abandoned plugins, and more, all from one place.

Smarter, automated updates

Choose how your updates run: as quick standard updates, as safe updates with before and after screenshots and instant rollbacks, or as smart automated updates that let you define when and under what conditions they should run.

Pair it with Update Copilot, our AI-powered scoring system, to understand how risky a plugin update might be before applying it and make more informed decisions.

You can also schedule one-time updates for a specific date and time, or simply hide updates you are not ready to apply.

Whatever approach you prefer, Modular DS gives you more control and flexibility to safely keep your sites up to date.

Backups and one-click restoration

Schedule GDPR-compliant backups to safeguard your clients’ sites and data, or create one manually whenever you need.

Choose between full or incremental backups and easily restore entire sites, files, or databases from Modular DS.

Uptime monitoring

Never get caught off guard by downtime. Get notified by email, WhatsApp, Slack, or Discord when any of your websites go down, before your clients even notice.

Customize check frequency, response time, keyword detection, and alert settings to fit your workflow. Modular DS includes one of the most complete uptime monitor tools for WordPress.

Security monitoring and management

Modular DS includes vulnerability scans for plugins, themes, and WordPress core, with alerts up to 48 hours before issues are publicly disclosed.

You also have malware scanning to check your sites’ files and database for malicious content, and admin user alerts to know whenever someone is added or removed as an administrator on any of your connected sites.

On top of that, you get notified whenever something else requires your attention, from outdated PHP to expired SSL certificates.

For teams that need more, our add-ons extend these capabilities. See the integrations section below for details.

Broken link checker

Run scheduled or on-demand scans to detect broken links and images across your sites. When broken internal links are found, create redirects to fix them without leaving Modular DS.

Site migration, cloning, and staging

Modular DS lets you migrate or clone any connected site in three ways: move it to another existing site in the platform, migrate it to a different server while keeping the same domain, or clone it to a new domain.

You can also create staging environments on your own server to test changes before going live.

Database optimization

Clean up post revisions, spam comments, transients, orphaned tables, and more directly from Modular DS. No need for extra plugins.

Keep your websites running smoothly while saving time and having a clear record of every optimization made.

Client reports

From winning new clients to keeping existing ones, Modular DS covers both ends of the reporting workflow.

Before a client signs up, you can generate a pre-maintenance report to show everything their site needs: pending updates, detected vulnerabilities, site health issues, database optimizations, etc.

Once they are on board, automatically generate and send regular maintenance reports that highlight the work you do behind each site.

Add time logs, dates, and screenshots to showcase the full scope of your efforts, so clients understand the value of your service and keep paying for it.

Both report types help you build trust, improve client retention, and turn your WordPress maintenance offering into recurring revenue.

Integrations

Modular DS integrates with Google Analytics, Search Console, WooCommerce, and PageSpeed, giving you an overview of your sites in one place and allowing you to include the data your clients care most about in your reports.
To further strengthen your sites’ security, two add-ons extend what is included in every plan:
* Patch & Protect, powered by Patchstack, blocks common attack methods and vulnerabilities through virtual patching and hardening rules, even before an official fix is available.
* A malware add-on powered by Imunify Connect, which lets you run on-demand scans across your sites to detect malicious content.

Modular DS MCP server: Manage your sites with AI

Connect Modular DS to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other AI assistant, and do almost everything you’d normally do from your Modular DS dashboard, straight from a conversation.

With our MCP server, you can:

• Check on your client sites with a single prompt.
• Run your WordPress maintenance workflow in a natural-language conversation (updates, backups, security scans, and so on).
• Easily understand what needs attention or spot opportunities for improvement.

Learn more about how it works.

Modular DS public API

Build your own integrations and automations on top of Modular DS with our public API. Perfect for agencies, hosting providers, or developers who want to connect Modular DS to their own tools, dashboards, or workflows.

Explore our API documentation.

Support that understands you

Modular DS is the first site management platform with support in both English and Spanish. Whether you have a question or run into an issue, our team has over 10 years of WordPress experience and is here to help you.

1. Create an account at app.modulards.com/register
2. Follow the instructions to connect your first website
3. Start saving time by automating maintenance tasks

Feel free to reach out if you have any issues or questions. We will be happy to help and guide you through the process.

Minimum requirements:

• WordPress 5.6 or higher
• PHP 7.4 or higher

1. 

   Modular DS dashboard

2. 

   Bulk management and updates

3. 

   Backups and restores

4. 

   Uptime monitoring

5. 

   Safe updates

6. 

   Update Copilot

7. 

   Database optimization

8. 

   Client report generation

9. 

   Client report overview page

v3.4.0

Release date: 2026-10-13

• New cache clearing support for SiteGround Optimizer, xSpeed Cache (xCloud), WP-Optimize, Hummingbird, Cache Enabler, Autoptimize and Nginx Helper
• Improved cache clearing for Varnish, WP Fastest Cache and Breeze
• Improved hosting compatibility: the managed hosting provider is now detected and reported
• Improved background task execution on WP Engine
• Improved malware database scan: large rows are sent in smaller batches, and when Imunify stops a scan the reason is now reported
• FIXED: Database malware scan failing to start on sites with an empty table prefix
• FIXED: Background tasks failing forever when the plugin’s own database tables went missing (e.g. after a site migration); they are now recreated automatically
• FIXED: Fatal error that could lock users out of wp-admin right after activating the plugin when a cache file was damaged
• FIXED: Authorization header health check reporting the header as missing on most sites
• FIXED: Cache not cleared with NitroPack, and only partially with WP Super Cache
• FIXED: Must-Use and Drop-ins tabs hidden in the WordPress plugins screen

v3.3.0

Release date: 2026-09-04

• Improved malware scan reliability: when Imunify is overloaded or under maintenance the scan now waits and resumes where it left off instead of failing, and an exhausted quota is reported with its renewal details
• Improved malware scan coverage: more executable and web-served file types (php3, php4, php5, php7, phps, inc, svg), symlinked plugins and files, and database tables with a text primary key (e.g. Wordfence)
• Improved malware scan results and progress: file counts now come from Imunify’s own summary, files that could not be analysed are reported as unknown instead of clean, and progress no longer stalls near 30% on mostly clean sites
• Improved malware scan memory usage on slow hosts, sharing the file enumeration with the backup system
• Improved storage layout: logs, cache and the backup and scan working files are now kept together under modular_storage, in folders named per site, with automatic cleanup of the old locations
• FIXED: Per-area file exclusions (plugins, themes, uploads, etc.) ignored by the malware scan
• FIXED: Database backups failing on hosts whose database serves TLS with a self-signed certificate, or when the connection dropped while dumping a table below the large-table threshold
• FIXED: WordPress version reported incorrectly on hosts that hide it (e.g. GridPane)

v3.2.1

Release date: 2026-08-10

• FIXED: Database backups failing on hosts pairing a MySQL 8 server with an older or MariaDB dump tool
• FIXED: Database backups failing on hosts where the dump tool could not connect through the local database socket

v3.2.0

Release date: 2026-08-07

• New resumable database backups: large databases are now dumped table by table over several passes, so a dump interrupted by a slow disk or a hosting timeout resumes where it left off, with accurate progress from the first pass
• Improved MariaDB support: servers running 10.5 or newer are now dumped with mariadb-dump, and their version is reported correctly
• Improved malware scan: findings now include the detected signature and threat type, and the files requested by the scanner are uploaded in batches
• FIXED: Database malware threats under-reported on sites with many detections
• FIXED: Backups failing on databases containing very large rows, stalling on slow disks, or using more database connections than the host allows
• FIXED: Background tasks running out of memory mid-process, and hosting memory limit reported incorrectly

v3.1.0

Release date: 2026-07-30

• Improved premium plugin and theme update detection with new compatibility for ThemeREX (Qwery theme, ThemeREX Addons), PixelYourSite and SeedProd Pro
• Improved malware scanner: partial results are now delivered when a scan fails, and sensitive database content is excluded from scans
• FIXED: Incorrect results in the background updates health check
• FIXED: Updates still shown as pending right after being successfully applied (e.g. Elementor Pro)
• FIXED: Duplicator Lite local backups are now excluded from backups

v3.0.2

Release date: 2026-06-26

• Improved database malware scan to cover all WordPress tables with scannable text content
• FIXED: Malware scan findings discarded when Imunify reported the scan as failed mid-process

v3.0.1

Release date: 2026-05-22

• FIXED: Malware scan results not delivered back when the database scan finished before the file scan
• FIXED: Public site error on hosts without the PDO MySQL extension

v3.0.0

Release date: 2026-05-20

• New broken link checker: automatically find broken links and outdated redirects across your posts and pages, with support for the noindex setting from Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress
• New redirects manager: create and apply redirect rules from Modular DS to keep your visitors and SEO traffic on track
• New malware scanner for files and database, powered by Imunify
• Improved site health checks with more accurate, up-to-date results
• Improved automatic cleanup of leftover files from interrupted operations

v2.8.1

Release date: 2026-04-27

• New restoration setup endpoint for safer and faster site restorations
• Improved YITH plugins compatibility
• FIXED: False update failures when a plugin had already been updated by auto-update or another admin

v2.7.5

Release date: 2026-03-11

• FIXED: Improved Divi theme updater compatibility
• FIXED: Plugin activation hooks not firing during bulk installations
• FIXED: White label error when customization data is empty

v2.7.4

Release date: 2026-02-20

• Patchstack plugin white label support
• WordPress custom user tables support
• Improved PHP 8.1+ compatibility
• FIXED: Bulk updates error when update transients were missing
• FIXED: Backup manifest timeout on restrictive hosting environments

v2.7.3

Release date: 2026-02-15

• Improved backup manifest I/O performance with adaptive hash algorithm selection
• Improved PHP 8.4+ compatibility
• FIXED: Loopback requests on sites with HTTP Basic Authentication
• FIXED: Job termination signal on hosts with slow garbage collection
• FIXED: WP Fastest Cache compatibility for cache clearing
• FIXED: White-label maintenance mode state detection
• FIXED: Plugin and theme update handling when no update is available

v2.7.0

Release date: 2026-01-30

• New improved detection and management system for premium plugins
• Improved performance during site management operations
• Redesigned routing architecture
• FIXED: Compatibility with WordPress installations in subdirectories
• FIXED: Incorrect folder exclusions in backup system for wp-content directory

v2.6.1

Release date: 2026-01-22

• Extra security measures added to validate JWT tokens
• FIXED: Error executing WordPress pseudo cron

v2.6.0

Release date: 2026-01-16

• New validate Authentication header
• FIXED: CVE-2026-23800 – Critical privilege escalation vulnerability.

v2.5.2

Release date: 2026-01-14

• FIXED: CVE-2026-23550 – Critical privilege escalation vulnerability.

v2.5.1

Release date: 2025-12-26

• FIXED: Check the writable permissions before registering as a MU plugin.

v2.5.0

Release date: 2025-12-16

• New auto register site feature
• Improved backup system with custom filesystem driver and symlink handling
• Enhanced file exclusion logic with extensions and size parameters
• FIXED: Database version detection without WordPress dependency
• FIXED: Security vulnerability in dependencies
• FIXED: Security vulnerabilities with input sanitization

v2.4.0

Release date: 2025-10-29

• Patchstack Security integration

v2.3.0

Release date: 2025-10-02

• Safe Updates
• FIXED: Activate plugin/theme after installation
• FIXED: Avoid empty cache driver

v2.2.2

Release date: 2025-09-05

• FIXED: Database update after installing Elementor or WooCommerce from a ZIP file
• FIXED: Compatibility with Cost of Goods for WooCommerce
• FIXED: Added ‘.opcache’ folder to default backup exclusion list

v2.2.1

Release date: 2025-08-11

• FIXED: Elementor automatic database update error
• FIXED: Error in backup manifest initialization
• FIXED: Compatibility with TranslatePress

v2.2.0

Release date: 2025-07-25

• Improved backup exclusion logic
• Improved memory management for large backups
• Improved composer dependency management
• Improved calculation of the file compression ratio for backups.
• FIXED: Clear cache for Varnish

v2.1.2

Release date: 2025-07-07

• Improved backup cancellation process

v2.1.1

Release date: 2025-06-27

• Allow connection of websites under HTTP Basic Authentication
• Option to disable custom loopback requests
• Improved loopback requests

v2.1.0

Release date: 2025-06-24

• Clear cache after any manager action
• Improved loopback requests
• FIXED: Cleaning up orphaned jobs in database

v2.0.2

Release date: 2025-06-03

• FIXED: Compatibility with Shield Security for WordPress
• FIXED: Compatibility with WP 2FA Premium plugin

v2.0.1

Release date: 2025-05-29

• FIXED: Compatibility with WP 2FA plugin
• FIXED: Error in backup manifest generation

v2.0.0

Release date: 2025-05-12

• Database optimization
• Activate maintenance mode screen on the website

v1.15.6

Release date: 2025-05-08

• FIXED: Use same user for all requests
• FIXED: Try to avoid database error if PDO doesn’t exist
• FIXED: Improved detection if async signals are supported
• FIXED: Improved database reconnect when it’s closed

v1.15.5

Release date: 2025-05-03

• FIXED: Debug errors only

v1.15.4

Release date: 2025-05-03

• FIXED: Improved compatibility with MySQL/MariaDB connections
• FIXED: Check if autoload file exists
• FIXED: Restore closed connection in AJAX requests
• FIXED: Maintenance mode disabled when worker was stopped
• FIXED: Attempt to upgrade plugins using cron only

v1.15.3

Release date: 2025-04-17

• FIXED: Set port in database connection

v1.15.2

Release date: 2025-04-16

• New tab to reset the plugin settings
• FIXED: Error getting WordPress user list for 1-click login
• FIXED: Don’t use persistent connection to database to avoid issues with some hosts
• FIXED: Minor bugs

v1.15.1

Release date: 2025-04-14

• FIXED: Database connection error when WordPress can’t provide the collation or charset
• FIXED: Method to validate database connection
• FIXED: Method to check if core upgrade was successful
• FIXED: Conflict with different plugins
• FIXED: Minor bugs

v1.15.0

Release date: 2025-04-09

• Allow to connect multisite installations
• WordPress 1-click login user management
• Elementor and WooCommerce automatic database update
• New tab to download logs and clear own caches

v1.14.2

Release date: 2025-04-04

• FIXED: Conflict when the object cache is configured but isn’t really configured.

v1.14.1

Release date: 2025-04-03

• New queuing system to improve async jobs management
• New cache system to avoid conflicts with object cache
• Improved PHP 8.4 compatibility
• Improved backup creation on slow servers
• FIXED: Conflict with different plugins
• FIXED: Backup tables exclusion error
• FIXED: Backup files exclusion error
• FIXED: Generation of health tests

v1.12.3

Release date: 2025-03-05

• FIXED: Conflict with different plugins

v1.12.2

Release date: 2025-03-05

• FIXED: Conflict with different plugins

v1.12.1

Release date: 2025-03-04

• FIXED: Cleaning up orphaned backup files
• FIXED: Conflict with WooCommerce

v1.12.0

Release date: 2025-03-02

• Compatibility to manage premium plugins has been improved.
• The manifest backup read has been optimized.
• FIXED: Error in backup system exclusion files
• FIXED: Error in the backup manifest file
• FIXED: Error in maintenance mode detection

v1.11.2

Release date: 2025-02-18

• Use nonce as fallback to validate requests

v1.11.1

Release date: 2025-02-18

• Validate nonce to maintain backward compatibility with older versions

v1.11.0

Release date: 2025-02-18

• New JWT validation for loopback requests
• FIXED: Compatibility with some plugins
• FIXED: Errors in the WordPress manager (updater)

v1.10.4

Release date: 2025-02-03

• FIXED: Error including non-existent function in health report
• FIXED: Error in our cache
• FIXED: Error when excluding folders from backups
• FIXED: Compatibility with new hosts
• FIXED: How to set white label name in health report
• FIXED: How to calculate files to include in backups

v1.10.2

Release date: 2025-01-21

• FIXED: Reopen zip files in incremental backups
• FIXED: Minor bug in connection check

v1.10.1

Release date: 2025-01-15

• Incremental backups bug fix

v1.10.0

Release date: 2025-01-15

• Backup system improvements
• Incremental backups option
• White label bug fix

v1.5.0

Release date: 2024-12-30

• New version of WordPress manager and backup system

v1.3.0

Release date: 2024-11-30

• WooCommerce integration

v1.2.0

Release date: 2024-09-26

• Manage your plugins and themes: install, activate, deactivate and delete plugins or themes from Modular in bulk.

v1.0.11

Release date: 2024-06-03

• FIXED: Minor bug fixes

v1.0.4

Release date: 2024-04-03

• FIXED: Use socket connection for database

v1.0.2

Release date: 2024-03-11

• FIXED: Loading translations into the health report
• FIXED: Some translations

v1.0.1

Release date: 2024-03-04

• Health and safety status of the site was improved

v1.0.0

Release date: 2024-02-23

• Plugin white label. Personalize the Modular Connector plugin info.

v0.60.0

Release date: 2024-01-06

• Health and safety status of the site

v0.50.4

Release date: 2023-11-15

• New backup system

v0.30.10

Release date: 2023-08-14

• FIXED: Use cron job as fallback
• FIXED: Replace POST with GET method in Ajax request

v0.30.8

Release date: 2023-07-26

• FIXED: Removed non-ascii characters in name, description and author of site items

v0.30.7

Release date: 2023-07-24

• The plugin/themes/core synchronization and update process is now performed asynchronously.
• A new error handler system has been introduced.
• The update and synchronize process has been optimized.
• A new event system has been created.

v0.20.3

Release date: 2023-04-21

• Fixed: The blog URL was set as the redirect URI in the OAuth token confirmation.
• Fixed: Check if “shell” is available
• Fixed: Some database backups failed when the port was sent explicitly.

v0.20.1

Release date: 2023-04-03

• English and Spanish translations are now loaded.
• Fixed: Check if file is readable before adding to backup

v0.20.0

Release date: 2023-03-29

• Now allows backups to be created and uploaded asynchronously

v0.10.2

Release date: 2023-03-08

• Fixed: Error when exporting database when ‘mysqldump’ is not available.

v0.10.1

Release date: 2023-02-23

• Improved backup error processing.
• Dot files are not ignored now

v0.10.0