WordPress ops, solved from your pocket
We built WP Remote Control because no existing tool lets WordPress professionals do their job from a phone. Not really.
The problem
Every WordPress professional shares the same frustration. The call comes at dinner, at a Saturday market, at 2 AM. A site is broken, a client needs something, an update went wrong. And the only way to fix it is to find a laptop, open it, log into wp-admin or SSH, and start troubleshooting.
You can't check if your sites are healthy. You can't see pending plugin updates. You can't check server memory or disk usage. You can't flip maintenance mode on. Not from your phone. The WordPress admin wasn't designed for mobile, and the things you need to do in an emergency aren't possible from a phone browser.
WP Remote Control exists to close that gap.
What about ManageWP, MainWP, Jetpack?
They solve different problems, or solve this one with trade-offs we didn't want to accept.
ManageWP routes all traffic through their cloud servers. Your site credentials and data pass through a third party. Their mobile experience is a responsive web app, not a native app. Premium features charge per site, which adds up when you manage dozens.
MainWP is a solid self-hosted dashboard for managing multiple WordPress sites from a browser. It requires hosting a separate WordPress site to run the dashboard, and its mobile experience is a responsive web app. WP Remote Control takes a different approach -- a native phone app with no extra infrastructure to host.
Jetpack is a monolithic plugin that adds overhead to every page load. It phones home to WordPress.com for many features. High-traffic sites and performance-conscious developers actively avoid it. It's a Swiss Army knife when you need a scalpel.
The WordPress mobile app is for writing posts and moderating comments. It has no plugin management, no health monitoring, no server diagnostics, and no maintenance mode controls.
The gap is clear: there's no native mobile tool that lets WordPress professionals perform operational tasks -- health monitoring with push notifications, plugin updates, server diagnostics, maintenance mode, and user management -- directly from their phone, without a cloud intermediary.
Our philosophy
No cloud middleman
Your phone talks directly to your WordPress sites over HTTPS. No data passes through our servers. Your credentials never leave your device. We don't see your sites, your data, or your traffic. There is no cloud service to get breached.
Privacy by architecture
We didn't add privacy as a feature. We made it impossible to violate by design. The app is a client. Your site is the server. There's nothing in between. We couldn't access your data even if someone asked us to.
Ops tool, not a CMS
WP Remote Control doesn't edit posts, manage media, or do SEO. It keeps sites alive, up to date, and healthy -- with uptime monitoring and push notifications so you know the moment something goes wrong. Focused scope means every feature is reliable and fast, not half-baked.
Earn your place
The Remote Control plugin adds zero overhead to your page load times. No JavaScript injected. No external API calls on every request. It sits quietly and only responds when you ask it something from the app.
One price, unlimited sites
Per-site fees punish success. The more sites you manage, the more you pay. We think that's backwards. WP Remote Control is a one-time purchase. Connect 1 site or 200 for the same price.
Phone-first, not phone-also
WP Remote Control isn't a desktop dashboard that also works on mobile. It's a native Android app designed from the ground up for one-handed operation when your other hand is holding a coffee or a steering wheel. iOS is coming soon.
The technical approach
WP Remote Control is two things: a lightweight WordPress plugin (Remote Control plugin) and a native Android app.
The plugin installs on each WordPress site you want to manage. It registers a set of REST API endpoints under /wp-json/wprc/v1/ that expose health data, plugin information, server vitals, maintenance mode, and user management. Every endpoint requires authentication and checks WordPress capabilities -- the same permission model as wp-admin.
The Android app stores your site list and credentials locally on your device. Credentials are encrypted in Android's hardware-backed Keystore. When you open the app, it connects directly to each site's REST API over HTTPS, fetches the data, and presents it in a unified dashboard.
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|--- HTTPS ---> Site A (Remote Control plugin)
|--- HTTPS ---> Site B (Remote Control plugin)
|--- HTTPS ---> Site C (Remote Control plugin)
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No cloud. No relay. No middleman.
Authentication uses WordPress Application Passwords -- a feature built into WordPress core since version 5.6. You generate a password in your WordPress user profile, paste it into the app once, and you're connected. Application Passwords are per-app revocable, honor existing WordPress roles and capabilities, and work with any hosting environment. No OAuth dance, no third-party auth server, no token refresh complexity.
Every action performed through the app is logged in WordPress -- who did what, when, from which app. If something goes wrong, there's a full audit trail.
Why native Android
A web app in a wrapper isn't good enough for emergency response. When your site is down and you're on cellular data, you need an app that loads instantly, works with one hand, and doesn't fight the operating system.
WP Remote Control is built with Kotlin and Material Design 3. Credentials are stored in the hardware-backed Android Keystore, not in a browser cookie or local storage. The app respects Android's lifecycle, notification channels, and system conventions. It's a proper Android app, not a webpage wearing a disguise.
Who it's for
Agency owners managing dozens of client sites who need to see health status across all sites at once, batch-update plugins, and respond to outages from their phone.
Freelancers maintaining client sites who get emergency texts and need to check server health, flip maintenance mode on, or update a plugin -- all without finding a laptop.
Site owners running their own WordPress site who want to know their site is up, see pending updates, and manage things from their phone without learning wp-admin on mobile.
Enterprise developers responsible for high-traffic WordPress sites who need instant server diagnostics, memory and disk monitoring, and one-tap maintenance mode when they get paged.
If you manage WordPress sites and you've ever wished you could fix something without opening a laptop, WP Remote Control is for you.
Your next emergency is coming. Be ready.
WP Remote Control is free to download. The plugin is free to install. Start managing your WordPress sites from your phone today.