About this plugin
Seitenwacht Website-Check gives administrators a clear overview of essential WordPress basics:
- availability of the public homepage
- HTTPS usage
- search engine visibility
- assigned and published WordPress privacy policy page
- readable permalink structure
- available WordPress core updates
- available plugin and theme updates
- publicly visible technical error output
When the plugin finds an issue, it links directly to the relevant WordPress setting. It never changes content or settings by itself.
The check runs only after an administrator deliberately clicks the check button. Results are stored exclusively in the website’s own WordPress database. No check results are automatically sent to Seitenwacht.
The privacy policy page check only verifies whether WordPress has a published page assigned as its privacy policy page. It does not assess the page’s content, legal completeness, or legal validity.
The plugin does not submit forms, click buttons, or replace continuous external monitoring. The separately available Seitenwacht service is a paid external monitoring service for businesses and agencies. It regularly checks websites and sends understandable notifications about confirmed problems.
This service is optional and is not required for any local plugin feature.
Administrators with an active Seitenwacht package can explicitly connect this plugin to the matching website in their Seitenwacht account. After connecting, WordPress displays the current health score, monitored areas, and up to ten confirmed open issues for this website. The connection is read-only, limited to one website, and can be revoked at any time.
More information:
- Seitenwacht plans: https://seitenwacht.de/preise/
- Terms and conditions: https://seitenwacht.de/agb/
- Privacy policy: https://seitenwacht.de/datenschutz/
External services
The local website check does not send check results to Seitenwacht or to any third-party analytics service.
For the availability check, the WordPress installation requests only its own public homepage. WordPress core, plugin, and theme update information is read from update data already stored by WordPress.
The plugin contains two clearly labelled links to external Seitenwacht pages:
- Free public website check: https://app.seitenwacht.de/website-check
- Seitenwacht plans: https://seitenwacht.de/preise/
These pages open only after an administrator deliberately clicks the corresponding link. de/datenschutz/
Optional Seitenwacht account connection:
- Service: Seitenwacht, operated by Anna Lena Meyringer, Germany
- Purpose: display the paid monitoring status for the matching website inside WordPress
- Data sent after an administrator deliberately clicks “Mit Seitenwacht verbinden”: the website URL, plugin version, a short-lived connection code, and later a revocable website-scoped access token
- Data received: website name and URL, plan identifier, health score and summary, monitored-area status, and up to ten confirmed open issues for that website
- No WordPress passwords, post content, form entries, visitors, or data from other Seitenwacht websites are transferred
- Privacy policy: https://seitenwacht.de/datenschutz/
de and can be disconnected from the plugin at any time.