Yo! get uptime, on your WordPress dashboard.

The YoPingMe WordPress plugin puts your monitors in wp-admin: each one's current status and its uptime over the last 24 hours, 7 days, and 30 days. It needs a free YoPingMe account, and it is honest about what a plugin can and cannot do.

What you get

A dashboard widget with every monitor's current status and uptime.
A clear "as of" timestamp, so you always know how fresh the numbers are.
An optional one-line badge for your front page footer. It is off by default.

A viewer, not a monitor

The plugin cannot detect your own site going down, and neither can any other WordPress plugin: a site that is down does not run PHP. The checking is done by YoPingMe's probes from outside your server, and the alerts - email, webhook, or Slack - come from your YoPingMe account, not from WordPress. The plugin is the view from inside wp-admin, and the history you read after an incident.

Why the numbers say "as of"

The plugin reads your monitors at most once an hour and caches the answer. The free plan includes 50 API queries a day, and an hourly read keeps a busy dashboard well inside that budget. Rather than pretending the numbers are live, the widget shows the time of the last read, and a Refresh link pulls fresh data when you want it.

The footer badge

A one-line credit reading "Uptime monitoring", followed by the YoPingMe logo, on your front page only. It is off unless you turn it on, the link is marked rel="nofollow", and nothing in the plugin depends on it. If the logo image cannot load, the badge falls back to plain text, and the .yopingme-badge class is there if you want to restyle it to match your theme.

Setup

Install and activate the plugin.
Open Settings, then YoPingMe. A two-step setup takes it from there: connect your YoPingMe account with an API key, then choose whether to watch this site and whether to show the footer badge.
Your monitors appear on the WordPress dashboard, and the settings page shows this site's own status once it is being watched.

The API key is created on your YoPingMe Account page with the MCP scope, which is read-only: the plugin can look at monitoring data, never change a monitor or an alert. The plugin needs WordPress 6.0 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer.

What it sends, and when

Nothing, until you save an API key. After that, the plugin calls the YoPingMe API at most once an hour when an administrator views the dashboard or the plugin's settings page, sending your key and the name of the read-only operation it is calling. No visitor data, site content, or personal information is transmitted, and nothing runs in the background. The optional badge, when on, loads one logo image from yoping.me on your front page; every other page makes no request. Removing the key stops every request immediately and deletes the cached data.

Where to get it

From the WordPress.org plugin directory: search for "YoPingMe" under Plugins, then Add New in your wp-admin, or install it from the directory page. The other half is the account: monitoring works without the plugin, and the plugin joins an account that already exists.

Start free: 10 monitors, checks every 5 minutes, and alerts that reach you even when WordPress cannot.