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Using the Site Control Panel

Read your site's Overview, Health, Domains, Events, and other tabs to understand its status at a glance.

Overview

The Site Control Panel is the per-site screen you reach by clicking a site card on the Sites launcher. A tab bar across the top lets you move between Overview, Login, Domains, Credentials, Plugins, Backups, Health, and Events. Status pills for Site, Domain, and SSL sit in the header so you can read a site's condition without opening a single tab.

The tabs at a glance

  • Overview — six summary tiles plus recent activity and site details.
  • Login — the one-click login button and your WordPress admin URL.
  • Domains — every attached domain, its type, status, and SSL state, plus the tools to attach and verify your own domain.
  • Credentials — your WordPress admin URL, username, and login mode.
  • Plugins — the plugin inventory reported by your site, with available updates.
  • Backups — snapshot history: label/type, status, when it was created, and size.
  • Health — the latest reachability probe.
  • Events — the full timeline of control-plane events and provisioning jobs.

Steps

  1. Open a site. From Sites, click the card for the site you want. The panel opens on the Overview tab.
  2. Read the Overview tiles. Six tiles summarize the site: Uptime 30d, WordPress version, PHP version, SSL status, Last backup, and Plugin updates. If any plugin updates are waiting, the Plugin updates tile is highlighted.
  3. Scan Recent activity. Below the tiles, the most recent events (provisioning steps, health checks, login issuance, domain verification) are listed with timestamps.
  4. Check Site Details and Client Context. These panels show the site type, status, primary hostname, and owner, plus which workspace and organization the site belongs to.
  5. Open Health for a live read. The Health tab shows the latest probe: current status, HTTP status code, response time in milliseconds, TLS/HTTPS validity, and when it was last checked. Use Refresh if it's offered to trigger a fresh read.
  6. Confirm Domains and SSL. The Domains tab lists each attached domain, whether it's the primary or a mapped domain, its status, and its SSL state.
  7. Follow Events for the full timeline. The Events tab shows control-plane events and any provisioning jobs, including job type, status, and error messages if something failed.

Reading the status pills

Status pills use color to signal state:

  • Green — healthy states like live, active, issued, and valid.
  • Softer tone — in-progress states like provisioning, verifying, or queued.
  • Warning tone — states that need attention: failed, suspended, archived, or expired.

A glance at the header pills (Site / Domain / SSL) tells you whether a site needs attention before you open any tab.

Example

After a migration, you open your site and the Overview shows Uptime 30d: 99.98%, WordPress 6.x, PHP 8.x, SSL: Active, and Plugin updates: 2 (highlighted). You switch to Health, see HTTP status 200, Response time 210 ms, and TLS valid, and confirm the migration landed cleanly. On Events, you can see the exact provisioning and verification steps in order, each with a timestamp — a useful record if you ever need to explain what happened when.

Tips

  • Start with the pills, then the Overview tiles. Together they answer "is this site OK?" in about two seconds.
  • The Plugin updates tile is your nudge. When it's highlighted with a number above zero, open the Plugins tab to see which plugins have updates waiting.
  • Empty states are not errors. "No health probe yet" or "No plugin inventory yet" means the site hasn't reported that data yet, not that something is broken. These populate automatically after the next heartbeat.

Troubleshooting

  • A tab is empty. Wait for the next heartbeat from the dashboard plugin and refresh. Newly provisioned or newly paired sites take a few minutes to report inventory, backups, and health.
  • A pill is in the warning tone. If Site shows suspended or archived, one-click login and other actions are intentionally blocked until the Stretch team restores it. If SSL shows expired or not issued, check the Domains tab — SSL is issued after a custom domain's cutover completes.
  • An event shows a failed job. Open Events, read the job type and error message, and include both when you contact the Stretch team.

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