GWD Connect

GWD Connect is a comprehensive WordPress site management plugin built by Graphic Web Design, Inc. It provides automatic backups, log monitoring, uptime tracking, automatic updates, and a powerful migration REST API — all from your WordPress admin.

To activate the Backup, Log Monitoring, and Uptime dashboards, please contact Graphic Web Design, Inc. for API activation.

Full Backup Engine

• Database backups via mysqldump with PDO fallback
• Filesystem archiving via tar with PharData fallback
• GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son) retention policy — daily, weekly, monthly tiers
• Real-time AJAX progress bar during backup
• SHA-256 integrity verification for all backup archives
• Large file and directory detection with customizable exclusions
• Secure backup download from WordPress admin
• WP Cron scheduled automatic backups
• Optional sync with backup.gwd.app dashboard

Log Monitoring

• Auto-discovers debug.log, PHP error log, and server error logs
• Multi-format log parsing (WordPress, Apache, Nginx, syslog)
• Pattern normalization and deduplication — groups similar errors
• Hourly distribution analysis with visual bar chart
• Severity classification: fatal, error, warning, notice
• Smart file position tracking for efficient re-reads
• Log file size alerts — configurable email notifications when logs exceed a threshold
• Clear individual log files from admin
• Optional sync with logs.gwd.app dashboard

Uptime Monitoring

• Real-time uptime status and response time tracking
• SSL certificate expiry monitoring
• Incident history with start, end, and duration
• 24-hour response time chart with native Canvas rendering
• 30-day uptime percentage calculation
• Email notifications on confirmed downtime and recovery
• Optional sync with up.gwd.app dashboard

Auto Updates

• Automatically updates WordPress core (minor and major versions)
• Automatically updates plugins, themes, and translations
• Email notifications when plugins are updated

Migration REST API (GWD Connector)

• Swap the entire WordPress filesystem from a tar.gz or zip archive
• Patch specific directories without wiping the rest (partial deployment)
• Write individual files remotely
• Swap the entire database from a SQL dump
• Serialization-aware URL search-replace across all database tables
• Scan and fix wp-config.php for hardcoded URLs
• Full migration orchestration combining all steps

All API endpoints require authentication via the X-GWD-Key header. Manage your API key from the GWD Connect settings page.