YoPingMe – Uptime Monitoring & Status Pages

YoPingMe is a website monitoring service that watches your sites from outside and tells you when they stop answering. This plugin brings that view into wp-admin: a dashboard widget listing each of your monitors, whether it is up right now, and its uptime over the last 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days. Every monitor in the account is listed, so if you look after several sites you see all of them from whichever site you are logged into.

This plugin is a viewer, not a monitor. It cannot detect your own site going down, because a site that is down does not run PHP. The checking is done by YoPingMe’s probes from outside your server; the plugin only shows you what they found. If you want to be told when your site goes down, set up alerts in your YoPingMe account.

What you get

• A dashboard widget with every monitor’s current status and uptime.
• A notice at the top of wp-admin when this site went down while you were away, so a 3am outage that fixed itself does not go unnoticed.
• A clear “as of” timestamp, so you always know how fresh the numbers are.
• An optional status strip for any page or post, if you publish a status page in your YoPingMe account. It appears only where you put it.
• An optional one-line badge for your front page footer. It is off by default.

What YoPingMe does

YoPingMe runs HTTP, keyword, ping and TCP checks and SSL certificate monitoring against your endpoints from probes on three continents, and alerts you by email, webhook or Slack. The free plan covers 10 monitors at 5-minute intervals.

Being told what you missed

When YoPingMe recorded an outage for this site while you were away, the plugin says so at the top of wp-admin the next time you log in: how long it lasted, when it started, and what the check saw. It looks back at most seven days, each administrator gets their own “since your last visit”, and the notice stays put while you work rather than vanishing on the first click. Dismiss it and it is gone until the next outage. There is a switch to turn it off entirely on the settings page.

This still does not make the plugin a monitor. It is telling you what YoPingMe’s probes saw from outside, after the fact.

Showing your status page (optional)

Status pages are made in your YoPingMe account, not here. If you publish one, the [yopingme_status] shortcode puts a compact strip wherever you want it: the overall state, a dot per service, and a link to the full status page. Nothing about it is automatic – with no page chosen under Settings > YoPingMe, or no shortcode on the page, the plugin renders nothing and makes no request for it.

The strip is drawn on your server from the status page’s public data, at most once every five minutes, so your visitors’ browsers never contact YoPingMe and no cookies or scripts are added to your site. The link to the full page is always part of the strip.

Why the data is cached

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

External services

This plugin connects to the YoPingMe API to fetch your monitors’ status.

• Service: YoPingMe (https://yoping.me/), API endpoint https://app.yoping.me/api/mcp.
• When: only after you save an API key, and at most once an hour when an administrator views a page in wp-admin. No request is made before a key is configured, none is made for logged-out visitors or for users who cannot manage options, and the plugin schedules nothing in the background.
• What is sent: your API key, in an Authorization header, and the name of the read-only operation being called (list_monitors, and list_incidents only when this site’s own uptime figures already show less than 100%). No visitor data, site content, or personal information is transmitted.
• What comes back: your own monitors’ names, targets, current status and uptime percentages, and – when incidents are asked for – the start time, end time, length and cause of your own outages in the last seven days.

Terms of service: https://yoping.me/terms Privacy policy: https://yoping.me/privacy

Saving an API key you generated in your own YoPingMe account is what authorises the plugin to contact that account. Removing the key on the settings page stops every request immediately and deletes the cached data.

The optional footer badge, when you switch it on, loads one image:

• Service: YoPingMe (https://yoping.me/), badge logo https://yoping.me/badge/yopingme.svg.
• When: only while the badge setting is on, and only on your site’s front page. Every other page makes no request. The badge is off by default, so a site that never turns it on never contacts yoping.me here.
• What is sent: whatever any image request sends – your visitor’s IP address, their browser’s user agent, and the address of the page the badge is on. No cookies are set, no scripts are loaded, and nothing identifies the visitor beyond that.
• What comes back: the YoPingMe logo, as an SVG image.

We count these requests to see which sites the badge is running on. Turning the badge off on the settings page stops them immediately.

The optional status page shortcode, when a status page is configured, fetches and displays it:

• Service: YoPingMe (https://yoping.me/), status page JSON API https://app.yoping.me/.
• When: when a page or post with the [yopingme_status] shortcode is viewed by any visitor, and a status page is either configured on the settings page or given directly with a slug attribute on the shortcode. The site’s server makes the request, not the visitor’s browser, at most every 5 minutes on success, and no more than every 2 minutes while YoPingMe is unreachable.
• What is sent: the request itself, with the standard WordPress user agent, which includes the WordPress version and the site’s URL, plus the server’s IP address inherent to any request. No visitor data and no account key.
• What comes back: the public status JSON for the configured status page, which the shortcode renders into a compact HTML strip.
• Links: the rendered strip always links to the full status page on statuspage.yoping.me.

Removing the shortcode, or setting the status page to None on the settings page, stops these requests immediately.

Terms of service: https://yoping.me/terms Privacy policy: https://yoping.me/privacy