EasyEngine: Year in Review 2025
Warm greetings for the new year.
Here’s a brief overview of what we shipped in 2025 and what’s coming next in 2026.
We introduced the EasyEngine Dashboard—a brand-new way to handle all your clients’ servers and sites from one place, and we also rolled out solid updates to the EasyEngine CLI.
This year, we made managing WordPress sites easier and more unified for agencies, developers, and teams. Here’s what we released and why it matters.
EasyEngine Dashboard Highlights
There are plenty of big and small features we launched this year; below are top-level highlights of all the major features:
- Unified Dashboard: Manage all your servers and sites (AWS, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, and WP Cloud) from one place; no more switching between providers.
- WP Cloud Integration: If you have a WP Cloud API key, you can create and manage WP Cloud WordPress sites directly from the dashboard.
- Server & Site Management: Connect your cloud providers or import existing Ubuntu servers to add and manage WordPress, PHP, and HTML sites easily.
- Team Access Control: Invite team members and assign roles like Admin, Manager, and Member to control who can do what.
- Activity Log: Track all changes made by team members on sites or servers. The activity log records every action taken in the dashboard, giving owners clear visibility into who did what.
- Backups & Restore: Connect any S3-compatible storage to automate or manually run backups for each site. Easily store and manage backups off-server for extra safety.
- Performance & CI/CD: Connect to New Relic for performance monitoring and use built-in Nginx and Redis for speed. Deploy safely with GitHub-based CI/CD and add SSH keys to your sites for streamlined deployments.
- Firewall & Live Logs: View real-time NGINX, PHP, and WordPress logs per site to debug issues; download logs when needed. Enable firewall protection on servers, and manage IP whitelisting or blacklisting directly from the dashboard.
Explore all the features of the EasyEngine Dashboard
EasyEngine CLI Highlights
- PHP 8.5 Support: Added compatibility for PHP 8.5. You can now create new sites with PHP 8.5 or update existing sites to use it.
- CLI Releases: Throughout the year, we shipped multiple CLI updates improving stability, backup reliability, and performance. For more details, read the full CLI release notes here.
What’s Coming in 2026
White-label & reseller workflows to manage clients, sites, and infrastructure from a branded dashboard.
- Faster and safer operations with incremental backups, better visibility, alerts, vulnerability detection, automatic WordPress updates, and Redis cache plugin support.
- Deeper WP Cloud support for staging environments, CI/CD, and clearer visibility around WP Cloud site usage.
- Simpler billing for agencies with multi-organization support, flexible yearly plans and add-ons, real-time plan updates, and clearer invoices and payment notifications.
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