If your maintenance stack is a list of $2 add-ons on a product that hasn't shipped anything meaningful in years, you're not getting what agencies need in 2026. IrmaWP covers the same routine work, adds AI-assisted development on top, and imports your site list in about five minutes.
Updates, backups, and reports are all there — but backups, uptime, SEO, and white-label each cost extra per site per month, the interface has barely changed since the GoDaddy acquisition, and there's no public roadmap. The work you do on top of maintenance still happens somewhere else.
Safe updates with checkpoints and visual regression, scheduled backups and security scans, incident alerts, white-label client reports — included, not add-ons. And when the maintenance is done, the same workspace builds pages, writes plugins, and fixes sites with AI, over the same connections.
| ManageWP | IrmaWP | |
|---|---|---|
| Plugin, theme, and core updates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Safe updates with pre-update checkpoint | Paid add-on per site | Included, with automatic rollback |
| Visual regression check after updates | Screenshot compare on paid tier | Pixel and structural diff, feeds auto-rollback |
| Scheduled backups | Paid add-on per site | Included, realtime to monthly cadences |
| Uptime monitoring | Paid add-on per site | Included, with incident open/resolve alerts |
| Security scans | Paid add-on per site | Included, WPScan CVE feed + malware checks |
| White-label client reports | Paid add-on per site | Included on Agency, with your branding |
| One-click wp-admin login | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI page building (Gutenberg, Elementor) | — | ✓ |
| AI code investigation and plugin work | — | ✓ |
| WordPress 7.0 Abilities API / MCP | — | Native — every site becomes an MCP server |
| Actively developed | Minimal since acquisition | Yes |
In the ManageWP dashboard, export your websites list as CSV. Any file with name and URL columns works — including a plain spreadsheet.
One upload on the Sites page creates every site in your workspace. Duplicates are skipped automatically, so you can re-run it safely.
Install the IrmaWP companion plugin from the connect flow — it links the site over the WordPress 7.0 MCP standard. SSH and REST work as fallbacks for older setups.
Nothing about the import touches ManageWP. Run them side by side for a billing cycle and cancel when IrmaWP has earned it.
No per-feature, per-site add-ons. Every plan includes updates, backups, uptime, security, and performance for every site in the bundle.
For freelancers and small teams that want one place to handle routine WordPress operations.
For agencies and in-house teams that need more coverage, cleaner workflows, and room for AI-assisted work.
For larger client portfolios that need white-label control, client-facing workflows, and predictable unit economics.
Backups stored in ManageWP stay in ManageWP. IrmaWP starts taking its own backups as soon as a site is connected, so keep the old account until your retention window has cycled.
Only if you want them to. Client reports carry your branding on the Agency plan, and the client portal runs on your own domain.
It builds Gutenberg and Elementor pages as drafts, investigates code over SSH, writes and modifies plugins, and generates content — using credits included in every plan, or your own OpenRouter key on Pro and Agency.
IrmaWP falls back to SSH and the WordPress REST API. Fleet features work over whichever connection the site has.
Import your ManageWP export and see the whole fleet in one workspace today.