MainWP Child establishes a secure link between your WordPress sites and your self-hosted MainWP Dashboard, simplifying site management.
- Installs
- 700,000+
- Rating
- 5.0 (71)
- Updated
- 2 days ago
Modular DS: Monitor, update, and backup multiple websites
Manage all your WordPress sites from one place. Automate updates, backups, uptime monitoring, security, reports, and more.
- Active installs
- 40,000+
- #829 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 1.4M
- 1,372,674
- Downloads, 30 days
- 43.8K
- 4.3K in the last 7
- Rating
- 5.0 / 5
- 133 reviews
- Last updated
- 18 days ago
- Oct 13, 2026
- Version
- 3.4.0
- 76 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 13, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | February 17, 2023 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
Reviews
5.0 / 5 from 133 reviews
| 5 stars | 132 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 1 |
| 3 stars | 0 |
| 2 stars | 0 |
| 1 star | 0 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
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.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
What is Modular DS, and what key features does it offer?
Modular DS is a modern, all-in-one platform for managing multiple WordPress websites from a single dashboard, helping you save time and work more efficiently.
Key features include:
- One-click login to all your WordPress sites.
- Bulk updates and management for plugins, themes, and WordPress core.
- Safe updates and Update Copilot.
- Smart automated updates with conditional rules.
How does Modular DS compare to other WordPress management platforms like ManageWP, MainWP, WP Umbrella, InfiniteWP, or WP Remote?
Modular DS covers the same core features as these platforms (bulk updates, backups, uptime monitoring, security) and adds a few things that set it apart:
- Smart update automation + Update Copilot: most tools in this space (ManageWP, MainWP, WP Umbrella, InfiniteWP, WP Remote) just let you schedule updates for a set date and time.
How do backups work in Modular DS?
Modular DS includes a complete backup system to keep your WordPress sites safe and recoverable at all times:
- Create automatic or on-demand backups whenever you need them.
- Choose between full or incremental backups depending on how much data you want to save.
- Full or partial restoration: Easily restore entire sites or specific parts, such as files or the database, directly from Modular DS.
Is Modular DS free?
Modular DS offers a 14-day free trial and subscription plans for different business sizes.
Every plan includes core features at a fixed price, with monthly or annual billing options, and flexible overage, which means you can exceed your base limits and pay for the additional usage monthly.
For more details, visit our pricing page.
Do I have to host my websites with a specific hosting provider?
No, Modular DS works independently of your hosting provider. You can connect and manage websites hosted anywhere.
Is Modular DS secure?
Yes, it is. Modular DS uses the OAuth2 protocol to securely authenticate the connection between your website and our servers. This protocol generates tokens that expire and can be revoked at any time.
We never store your WordPress user passwords, ensuring your login credentials remain private and under your control.
Latest changelog entry
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
Screenshots
Modular DS dashboard 
Bulk management and updates 
Backups and restores 
Uptime monitoring
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.