Title: YoPingMe
Author: YoPing Me
Published: <strong>August 16, 2026</strong>
Last modified: August 16, 2026

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# YoPingMe

 By [YoPing Me](https://profiles.wordpress.org/devshield/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/yopingme.1.3.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/yopingme/#description)
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 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/yopingme/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/yopingme/#developers)

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## Description

YoPingMe 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.

**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 clear “as of” timestamp, so you always know how fresh the numbers are.
 * An optional one-line badge for your front page footer. It is off by default.

#### What YoPingMe does

YoPingMe runs HTTP, keyword, SSL, ping and TCP checks 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.

#### 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 the WordPress dashboard or the plugin’s settings page. No request is made
   before a key is configured, 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`). No visitor data, site
   content, or personal information is transmitted.
 * **What comes back:** your own monitors’ names, targets, current status
    and uptime
   percentages.

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.

## Installation

 1. Install and activate the plugin.
 2. Go to Settings > YoPingMe. A two-step setup takes it from there:
     create or connect
    your YoPingMe account with an API key, then choose whether to watch this site and
    whether to show the footer badge.
 3. Your monitors appear on the WordPress dashboard, and the settings page
     shows this
    site’s own status once it is being watched.

## FAQ

### Do I need a YoPingMe account?

Yes. The plugin displays data from your account and does no monitoring of
 its own.
A free account works.

### Where do I get an API key?

On your YoPingMe account page. Create a key with the MCP scope; that scope
 is read-
only and cannot change anything in your account.

### Why does the widget say “as of” a time instead of showing live data?

Because it is showing cached data, on purpose. Reading once an hour keeps
 the plugin
inside the free plan’s daily query budget no matter how often you load the dashboard.
Use the Refresh link if you want the current numbers.

### Will this plugin tell me when my site goes down?

Not by itself, and no plugin can: when your site is down, WordPress is not
 running.
Set up email, webhook, or Slack alerts in your YoPingMe account for that. The plugin
is how you see the history afterwards.

### What is the footer badge?

An optional one-line credit reading “Uptime monitoring YoPingMe”, shown
 in the 
footer of your front page only. It is off unless you turn it on, it is marked `rel
="nofollow"`, and nothing in the plugin depends on it. The YoPingMe name is our 
logo, loaded as an image from yoping.me – see the External services section above
for exactly what that request involves. If the image cannot load, the badge falls
back to plain text. You can switch it off at any time on the settings page, or restyle
it with the .yopingme-badge class if you would rather keep it and match your theme.

### What happens if my key stops working?

The widget keeps showing the last data it successfully fetched, with a
 notice explaining
what went wrong and when the data is from.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“YoPingMe” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ YoPing Me ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/devshield/)

[Translate “YoPingMe” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/yopingme)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/yopingme/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/yopingme/), or subscribe 
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/yopingme/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/yopingme/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.3.2

 * The refresh link’s script (dashboard widget) and the test-connection button’s
   script (settings page) are now proper enqueued assets instead of inline `<script
   >` tags.
 * Corrected probe-location wording: the fleet has grown past the original three
   cities, so the description no longer names a stale, incomplete list.

#### 1.3.1

 * Shorter badge copy: “Uptime monitoring” followed by the YoPingMe logo.
 * The badge link opens in a new tab (`target="_blank"` with `rel="noopener"`).

#### 1.3.0

 * The footer badge now reads “Uptime monitoring by YoPingMe” and appears on your
   front page only, instead of on every page.
 * 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 `rel="nofollow"`.
 * If the logo cannot load, the badge falls back to plain text.

#### 1.2.0

 * Guided two-step setup: connect your account, then choose the badge and start 
   watching this site.
 * 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.
 * Clear links to your YoPingMe dashboard from the plugin page.
 * Removed the terms checkbox. Saving a key from your own account is the authorisation;
   the External Services section above is the full disclosure.
 * 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.

#### 1.1.1

 * Test connection always contacts YoPingMe. It could previously report a revoked
   key as connected by answering from the cache.

#### 1.1.0

 * Accept the YoPingMe terms before the plugin connects; no key is stored and no
   request is made until you do.
 * Add this site to YoPingMe from the settings page, when your account supports 
   it.
 * Shorter footer badge, with only the brand name linked.
 * Endpoints can be pointed at a staging YoPingMe from wp-config.php.

#### 1.0.0

 * First release: dashboard widget, hourly cached reads, optional footer badge.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3.2**
 *  Last updated **2 days ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0.4**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [dashboard](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard/)[downtime](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/downtime/)
   [monitoring](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/monitoring/)[status](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/status/)
   [uptime](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/uptime/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/yopingme/advanced/)

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## Contributors

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