Title: ViewMend Site Tracker Author: Oleksandr Published: August 21, 2026 Last modified: September 26, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/viewmend-site-tracker/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3682291) ![](https://ps.w.org/viewmend-site-tracker/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3658534) # ViewMend Site Tracker By [Oleksandr](https://profiles.wordpress.org/phpner/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/viewmend-site-tracker.1.1.1.zip) * [Details](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/viewmend-site-tracker/#description) * [Reviews](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/viewmend-site-tracker/#reviews) * [Installation](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/viewmend-site-tracker/#installation) * [Development](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/viewmend-site-tracker/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/viewmend-site-tracker/) ## Description ViewMend Site Tracker connects WordPress to [ViewMend website change monitoring](https://viewmend.com/site-tracker). It records content updates, plugin and theme changes, core updates, and supported cache purges, then sends them to ViewMend in the background. ViewMend runs website checks, captures screenshots, compares pages, and stores reports on its own servers. The plugin displays those findings and performance results in WordPress administration. Events include the affected public page URL when WordPress can identify it. ViewMend can match that URL to a tracked page and queue a check, depending on your integration settings, credits, and existing queued checks. Use Timeline events alongside completed checks to investigate changes after a release or content update. A ViewMend account and Site Tracker integration are required. #### Supported WordPress changes * Public posts, pages, and products when they are published, meaningfully updated, or permanently deleted. * Plugin installation, activation, deactivation, update, and deletion. * Theme installation, activation, update, and deletion. * Completed WordPress core updates. * Confirmed full-domain and exact-URL WP Rocket cache purges. * An explicit administrator connection test. Autosaves, revisions, drafts, trash moves, comments, users, orders, customer records, media churn, and arbitrary option changes do not create events. #### How WordPress website change monitoring works 1. WordPress confirms an enabled content, plugin, theme, core, or supported cache action. 2. The plugin creates one stable event ID and stores the compact event in its local queue. 3. A background worker delivers the event to ViewMend without delaying the originating WordPress request. 4. ViewMend records the Timeline context and returns delivery, matched-page, and queue status. 5. If automatic checks are enabled and the page is eligible, ViewMend queues a check. Results appear in ViewMend and the WordPress Overview. #### Native WordPress controls and durable delivery The plugin has four sections: Overview, Connection, Event rules, and Activity. Overview displays findings, content changes, resources, and selected-page performance from completed ViewMend checks. Resource details include the stored request URLs for the selected check. Event rules let you choose which actions to report. For example, you can report plugin updates while leaving activation and deactivation events off. Activity shows delivery status, retries, and the response received from ViewMend. Website checks and page comparisons run in ViewMend. ### External service The plugin connects to [ViewMend Site Tracker](https://viewmend.com/site-tracker) after an administrator saves an Integration ID and API token. It sends queued events for enabled WordPress actions and connection tests. It reads dashboard results when an administrator opens or refreshes Overview, and resource details when a resource type is selected. Event requests contain an event ID, type, time, change title and description, public site URL, environment, affected public page URLs, changed-field categories, and WordPress/plugin/theme versions or public object IDs. Public-content events may include an administrative edit URL. The API token is sent in the Authorization header. ViewMend uses this data to record events, match tracked pages and, when eligible, queue website checks. It returns delivery status and counts of matched pages and queued checks. Dashboard responses contain health counts, findings, content changes, page performance, and resource URLs, MIME types, status codes, sizes and durations from completed checks. They exclude request/response headers, cookies, authorization values and remote IP addresses. Dashboard responses are cached for up to five minutes. An accepted event does not guarantee a completed check. The plugin does not send post bodies, excerpts, protected content, usernames, email addresses, customer or order data, cookies, IP addresses or arbitrary settings. Use of the service is subject to the [ViewMend Terms of Service](https://viewmend.com/terms-of-service) and [Privacy Policy](https://viewmend.com/privacy-policy). ### Privacy Only public change metadata is sent; the full field list and exclusions are in External service. The local queue stores event payloads, delivery state, attempts, redacted errors, HTTP status and ViewMend response details. Completed and failed history is limited to 250 entries. The token is stored separately with autoload disabled and is never displayed, written to queue rows or sent to browser JavaScript. Dashboard results expire from the cache after five minutes. ## Screenshots [⌊Overview shows selected-page health, tracked pages, critical findings, searchable issues, and issue trends.⌉⌊Overview shows selected-page health, tracked pages, critical findings, searchable issues, and issue trends.⌉[ Overview shows selected-page health, tracked pages, critical findings, searchable issues, and issue trends. [⌊Connection verifies the ViewMend integration and keeps the saved API token hidden while making settings easy to update.⌉⌊Connection verifies the ViewMend integration and keeps the saved API token hidden while making settings easy to update.⌉[ Connection verifies the ViewMend integration and keeps the saved API token hidden while making settings easy to update. [⌊Event rules let administrators choose the exact WordPress actions to report, including publication, meaningful updates, and permanent deletion.⌉⌊Event rules let administrators choose the exact WordPress actions to report, including publication, meaningful updates, and permanent deletion.⌉[ Event rules let administrators choose the exact WordPress actions to report, including publication, meaningful updates, and permanent deletion. [⌊Activity shows confirmed deliveries with exact affected URLs, matched pages, and the response returned by ViewMend.⌉⌊Activity shows confirmed deliveries with exact affected URLs, matched pages, and the response returned by ViewMend.⌉[ Activity shows confirmed deliveries with exact affected URLs, matched pages, and the response returned by ViewMend. [⌊Page insights combine performance history, Core Web Vitals, transferred resources, resource changes, and local event delivery health.⌉⌊Page insights combine performance history, Core Web Vitals, transferred resources, resource changes, and local event delivery health.⌉[ Page insights combine performance history, Core Web Vitals, transferred resources, resource changes, and local event delivery health. ## Installation 1. Upload and activate the plugin. 2. Open ViewMend from the main WordPress administration menu. 3. Follow the setup-guide link on the Connection screen and create WordPress credentials in the target ViewMend Tracker project. 4. Copy the Integration ID and one-time API token into WordPress > ViewMend > Connection. 5. Save and test the connection. The test creates a real ViewMend event. 6. Open Event rules and choose the confirmed WordPress operations that should create events. 7. Open Activity, confirm the local test row reaches Delivered, and inspect the queue state returned by ViewMend. WordPress cron must run for background delivery. The plugin schedules near-term work and a recurring five-minute recovery event. Multisite network activation is not supported. Activate and configure the plugin separately for each required site. ## FAQ ### Is this a standalone WordPress website monitoring plugin? No. It connects WordPress events to ViewMend and displays ViewMend results. A ViewMend account and Site Tracker integration are required. ### Can it track WordPress page changes? Yes, for public posts, pages and products. Events include the affected permalink. ViewMend can check an already tracked page when your integration settings and available credits permit it. Drafts, autosaves, revisions, trash moves and protected content are excluded. ### Which site changes can it report? Public content changes, plugin and theme operations, successful core updates, WP Rocket purges and connection tests. Choose individual actions in Event rules. ### Do website checks run on my WordPress server? No. ViewMend runs checks, captures screenshots, compares pages and stores reports on its own servers. WordPress records and delivers events and caches results. ViewMend checks request your public pages and their resources. ### Does the plugin contact an external service? Yes, after you configure the ViewMend connection. See External service for the request triggers, data fields, terms and privacy policy. ### Which cache plugins are supported? WP Rocket. Domain purges apply site-wide. URL-specific purges include only public posts, pages, products and the home page that WordPress can verify locally. Private, password-protected and unknown routes are excluded. ### What happens when ViewMend is unavailable? Delivery retries network failures, HTTP 429 and server errors up to six times, with increasing delays. Retry-After is respected up to six hours. Manual retries keep the original event ID. ### What happens on deactivation or uninstall? Deactivation removes cron schedules and preserves all data. Uninstall also preserves data by default. You can enable deletion of ViewMend settings, the token, and local delivery history in Connection settings. On multisite, this choice is respected separately for each site. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “ViewMend Site Tracker” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Oleksandr ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/phpner/) [Translate “ViewMend Site Tracker” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/viewmend-site-tracker) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/viewmend-site-tracker/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/viewmend-site-tracker/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/viewmend-site-tracker/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/viewmend-site-tracker/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.1.1 * Prevented private, password-protected and unknown page URLs from being included in WP Rocket cache events. * Preserved encoded URLs and separate content edits, and added events for permalink changes and removal of password protection. * Fixed queue, credential and event isolation when switching between multisite sites, and respected each site’s uninstall preference. * Preserved retried events during history cleanup and fixed scheduling of earlier deliveries. * Prevented failed WordPress core updates from being reported as successful. * Fixed validation of collapsed settings, clarified connection status and selected- page health, and kept isolated chart values visible. #### 1.1.0 * Added the ViewMend dashboard, findings, page performance, resource details and activity search. * Updated connection setup, event rules and responsive layouts. * Improved credential handling, delivery acknowledgements, retries and recovery. #### 1.0.0 * Initial release with WordPress events, background delivery, WP-CLI diagnostics and privacy controls. ## Meta * Version **1.1.1** * Last updated **4 days ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.4 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.2** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/viewmend-site-tracker/) * Tags * [change tracking](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/change-tracking/)[content updates](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/content-updates/) [deployment](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/deployment/)[website monitoring](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/website-monitoring/) * [Advanced View](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/viewmend-site-tracker/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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