{"id":352862,"date":"2026-08-16T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/yopingme\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T16:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:23:34","slug":"yopingme","status":"publish","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/tzm.wordpress.org\/plugins\/yopingme\/","author":7271219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"version":"1.3.2","stable_tag":"1.3.2","tested":"7.0.4","requires":"6.0","requires_php":"7.4","requires_plugins":null,"header_name":"YoPingMe","header_author":"YoPingMe","header_description":"See your YoPingMe uptime monitors on the WordPress dashboard. 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This plugin brings that view into wp-admin: a dashboard widget\nlisting each of your monitors, whether it is up right now, and its uptime\nover the last 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>This plugin is a viewer, not a monitor.<\/strong> It cannot detect your own site\ngoing down, because a site that is down does not run PHP. The checking is\ndone by YoPingMe's probes from outside your server; the plugin only shows\nyou what they found. If you want to be told when your site goes down, set\nup alerts in your YoPingMe account.<\/p>\n\n<h4>What you get<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>A dashboard widget with every monitor's current status and uptime.<\/li>\n<li>A clear \"as of\" timestamp, so you always know how fresh the numbers are.<\/li>\n<li>An optional one-line badge for your front page footer. It is off by default.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>What YoPingMe does<\/h4>\n\n<p>YoPingMe runs HTTP, keyword, SSL, ping and TCP checks against your\nendpoints from probes on three continents, and alerts you by email,\nwebhook or Slack. The free plan covers 10 monitors at 5-minute intervals.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Why the data is cached<\/h4>\n\n<p>The plugin reads your monitors at most once an hour and caches the answer.\nThe free plan includes a daily budget of API queries, and an hourly read\nkeeps a busy dashboard well inside it. The widget shows the time of the\nlast read rather than pretending the numbers are live, and a Refresh link\nlets you pull fresh data when you want it.<\/p>\n\n<h3>External services<\/h3>\n\n<p>This plugin connects to the YoPingMe API to fetch your monitors' status.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Service:<\/strong> YoPingMe (https:\/\/yoping.me\/), API endpoint\n  https:\/\/app.yoping.me\/api\/mcp.<\/li>\n<li><strong>When:<\/strong> only after you save an API key, and at most once an hour when\nan administrator views the WordPress dashboard or the plugin's settings\npage. No request is made before a key is configured, and the plugin\nschedules nothing in the background.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is sent:<\/strong> your API key, in an Authorization header, and the name\nof the read-only operation being called (<code>list_monitors<\/code>). No visitor\ndata, site content, or personal information is transmitted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What comes back:<\/strong> your own monitors' names, targets, current status\nand uptime percentages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Terms of service: https:\/\/yoping.me\/terms\/\nPrivacy policy: https:\/\/yoping.me\/privacy\/<\/p>\n\n<p>Saving an API key you generated in your own YoPingMe account is what\nauthorises the plugin to contact that account. Removing the key on the\nsettings page stops every request immediately and deletes the cached data.<\/p>\n\n<p>The optional footer badge, when you switch it on, loads one image:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Service:<\/strong> YoPingMe (https:\/\/yoping.me\/), badge logo\n  https:\/\/yoping.me\/badge\/yopingme.svg.<\/li>\n<li><strong>When:<\/strong> only while the badge setting is on, and only on your site's\nfront page. Every other page makes no request. The badge is off by\ndefault, so a site that never turns it on never contacts yoping.me here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is sent:<\/strong> whatever any image request sends - your visitor's IP\naddress, their browser's user agent, and the address of the page the\nbadge is on. No cookies are set, no scripts are loaded, and nothing\nidentifies the visitor beyond that.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What comes back:<\/strong> the YoPingMe logo, as an SVG image.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>We count these requests to see which sites the badge is running on.\nTurning the badge off on the settings page stops them immediately.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Install and activate the plugin.<\/li>\n<li>Go to Settings &gt; YoPingMe. A two-step setup takes it from there:\ncreate or connect your YoPingMe account with an API key, then choose\nwhether to watch this site and whether to show the footer badge.<\/li>\n<li>Your monitors appear on the WordPress dashboard, and the settings page\nshows this site's own status once it is being watched.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"do%20i%20need%20a%20yopingme%20account%3F\"><h3>Do I need a YoPingMe account?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes. The plugin displays data from your account and does no monitoring of\nits own. A free account works.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"where%20do%20i%20get%20an%20api%20key%3F\"><h3>Where do I get an API key?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>On your YoPingMe account page. Create a key with the MCP scope; that scope\nis read-only and cannot change anything in your account.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"why%20does%20the%20widget%20say%20%22as%20of%22%20a%20time%20instead%20of%20showing%20live%20data%3F\"><h3>Why does the widget say \"as of\" a time instead of showing live data?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Because it is showing cached data, on purpose. Reading once an hour keeps\nthe plugin inside the free plan's daily query budget no matter how often\nyou load the dashboard. Use the Refresh link if you want the current\nnumbers.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"will%20this%20plugin%20tell%20me%20when%20my%20site%20goes%20down%3F\"><h3>Will this plugin tell me when my site goes down?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Not by itself, and no plugin can: when your site is down, WordPress is not\nrunning. Set up email, webhook, or Slack alerts in your YoPingMe account\nfor that. The plugin is how you see the history afterwards.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"what%20is%20the%20footer%20badge%3F\"><h3>What is the footer badge?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>An optional one-line credit reading \"Uptime monitoring YoPingMe\", shown\nin the footer of your front page only. It is off unless you turn it on, it\nis marked <code>rel=\"nofollow\"<\/code>, and nothing in the plugin depends on it. The\nYoPingMe name is our logo, loaded as an image from yoping.me - see the\nExternal services section above for exactly what that request involves. If\nthe image cannot load, the badge falls back to plain text. You can switch\nit off at any time on the settings page, or restyle it with the\n    .yopingme-badge class if you would rather keep it and match your theme.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"what%20happens%20if%20my%20key%20stops%20working%3F\"><h3>What happens if my key stops working?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>The widget keeps showing the last data it successfully fetched, with a\nnotice explaining what went wrong and when the data is from.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>1.3.2<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>The refresh link's script (dashboard widget) and the test-connection button's script (settings page) are now proper enqueued assets instead of inline <code>&lt;script&gt;<\/code> tags.<\/li>\n<li>Corrected probe-location wording: the fleet has grown past the original three cities, so the description no longer names a stale, incomplete list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.3.1<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Shorter badge copy: \"Uptime monitoring\" followed by the YoPingMe logo.<\/li>\n<li>The badge link opens in a new tab (<code>target=\"_blank\"<\/code> with <code>rel=\"noopener\"<\/code>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.3.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>The footer badge now reads \"Uptime monitoring by YoPingMe\" and appears on your front page only, instead of on every page.<\/li>\n<li>The badge shows the YoPingMe logo, loaded as an image from yoping.me. This is a request from your visitors' browsers to a third party, so the setting says so before you switch it on and the External services section documents it. The badge is still off by default, and still <code>rel=\"nofollow\"<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>If the logo cannot load, the badge falls back to plain text.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.2.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Guided two-step setup: connect your account, then choose the badge and start watching this site.<\/li>\n<li>The settings page now shows this site's own status and uptime once it is being watched, instead of an Add button that had nothing left to do.<\/li>\n<li>Clear links to your YoPingMe dashboard from the plugin page.<\/li>\n<li>Removed the terms checkbox. Saving a key from your own account is the authorisation; the External Services section above is the full disclosure.<\/li>\n<li>The activation notice about the footer badge is gone. The badge is still off by default and is offered as a labelled step during setup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.1.1<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Test connection always contacts YoPingMe. It could previously report a revoked key as connected by answering from the cache.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.1.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Accept the YoPingMe terms before the plugin connects; no key is stored and no request is made until you do.<\/li>\n<li>Add this site to YoPingMe from the settings page, when your account supports it.<\/li>\n<li>Shorter footer badge, with only the brand name linked.<\/li>\n<li>Endpoints can be pointed at a staging YoPingMe from wp-config.php.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.0.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>First release: dashboard widget, hourly cached reads, optional footer badge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"See your YoPingMe uptime monitors on the WordPress dashboard. 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