WP Foundry

WP Foundry Features

WP Foundry is a desktop app for managing WordPress sites from one place. It runs on your computer (macOS, Windows, and Linux), stores site data locally, and talks to each site over HTTPS through the WP Foundry Helper plugin – no remote shell access required.

You can save a huge amount of time by updating plugins, themes, and core, managing users, running backups, and checking for known vulnerabilities, without logging into every wp-admin separately.

General advantages

Multi-site from one desktop: manage all your sites from a single app.
HTTP + helper plugin: connect with a site URL and shared secret. Faster and simpler than traditional remote-shell workflows.
Private by design: site list, secrets, and caches stay on your device. There is no WP Foundry cloud.
Queued operations: updates and backups run through a task queue with progress and history.

Features

Plugin management: list, search, activate/deactivate, update, delete, backup, and install from a local backup (queued).
Theme management: list, activate, update, delete, backup, and install from backup.
WordPress core: view version, check for updates, and queue core updates.
User management: list/filter by role, create users, change roles, reset passwords, and delete (with post reassignment).
Security scanning: check plugins, themes, and core against known issues via WPVulnerability data, with a security score view.
Database backups: create, list, and delete local database dump archives for a site. (In-app restore / import / search-replace is not included in the current release.)
File backups: back up wp-content (optionally without uploads), plus plugin and theme archives; install plugins/themes from backups.
Site settings: test connection, edit site details, check/update the helper plugin, rotate the shared secret, remove a site.
Queue & command logs: pause/resume/cancel tasks across sites; review WP-CLI command history locally.
Licensing: Free tier for up to 2 sites; Pro ($10) for unlimited sites. Offline license validation.
In-app updates: update the desktop app from GitHub releases.