Basic, Free
Core Smart SSL monitoring for 1 site, tracking certificate validity and expiry out of the box.
Smart SSL
Never serve a "not secure" warning, SSL monitoring for WordPress.
Smart SSL watches your SSL certificates across every site and alerts you before they expire. No more surprise "not secure" warnings, broken padlocks, or HTTPS downtime, just early notice in time to renew and keep your sites trusted.
In short
Smart SSL is a WP Tailwatch feature that monitors SSL certificate validity and expiry across your WordPress sites. It alerts you before a certificate expires, so you never serve a "not secure" warning, lose HTTPS, or face avoidable downtime, keeping your padlock intact and visitors trusting your site.
What it does
Watch every certificate's expiry.Renew long before it ever bites.
An expired SSL certificate breaks HTTPS in an instant: browsers throw a warning, the padlock vanishes, and visitors bounce. Smart SSL tracks each certificate's validity and warns you in plenty of time to renew.
- Monitors certificate validity and expiry
- Alerts you well before a cert expires
- Flags misconfigured or mismatched certificates
- Tracks HTTPS health across every site you manage
How it works
From certificate to peace of mind in three steps.No lapsed padlocks, no HTTPS downtime.
Connect your sites once and WP Tailwatch checks each certificate on a schedule, warns you ahead of expiry, and leaves you time to renew. You stay in the clear without watching calendars or refreshing padlocks.
1
Check the certificate
Smart SSL inspects each site's SSL certificate, its validity, expiry date, and configuration, on a regular schedule, automatically.
2
Alert before expiry
As a certificate nears its expiry date, Smart SSL sends you an early warning through the app and dashboard, long before visitors would notice.
3
Renew with time to spare
You renew through your host or provider while everything's still green. The padlock stays intact, HTTPS keeps working, and there's no downtime.
Why it matters
Why SSL monitoring matters.An expired cert breaks HTTPS in an instant.
WordPress runs roughly 43% of all websites, and modern browsers expect every one of them to serve HTTPS. Source: W3Techs CMS usage statistics. The moment a certificate expires, that HTTPS breaks, browsers throw a full-page "not secure" warning, the padlock disappears, and visitors leave before they ever reach your content.
Smart SSL makes that scenario nearly impossible. By tracking certificate validity and warning you well ahead of expiry, it turns a silent, last-minute emergency into a calm renewal task. That's the WP Tailwatch approach: catch the problem early, across every site, so your HTTPS, and your visitors' trust, never lapses.
Plan availability
Core monitoring free, full alerts on paid.Watch your first certificate at no cost.
Start watching your certificates for free, scale SSL monitoring across every site you manage.
Business, Full control
Advance expiry alerts, misconfiguration flags, and HTTPS history for 1-20 sites, paired with the full WP Tailwatch security suite.
Agency, At scale
SSL monitoring across 21-1,000 sites with tiered volume pricing and one dashboard for your whole portfolio.
Works together with
Part of your mobile-first security stack.One platform in place of 50+ plugins.
Smart SSL pairs with the rest of WP Tailwatch, replacing 50+ separate plugins with one platform.
FAQ
Smart SSL questions.Answers to the questions we hear most.
Smart SSL monitors the SSL certificate on your WordPress site, tracking its validity and expiry date. When a certificate is approaching expiry or becomes misconfigured, it alerts you in advance, so you can renew before visitors ever see a "not secure" warning or lose HTTPS.
An expired certificate instantly breaks HTTPS, shows visitors a scary "not secure" or full-page warning, and can take a site offline for many users. Monitoring catches the expiry before it happens, so you renew on time and never lose trust, traffic, or rankings to a lapsed cert.
Smart SSL warns you well before a certificate expires, giving you a comfortable window to renew. Alerts reach you through the WP Tailwatch mobile app and dashboard, so you find out from a calm notification rather than from a customer reporting a broken padlock.
Yes. Smart SSL is fully available now as part of WP Tailwatch, there is no waitlist or beta. Core SSL monitoring is included on the free Basic plan, with full alerting and history on the Business and Agency plans.
A standalone SSL plugin only handles one site's certificate. Smart SSL is one of 50+ tools in WP Tailwatch, so you replace a single-purpose plugin and dozens of others with one platform, and you watch certificate health alongside your firewall, uptime, and security data.
Smart SSL focuses on monitoring and alerting, it watches certificate validity and tells you before it expires so you can renew through your host or certificate provider. The early warning is what keeps you from ever serving an expired certificate.
Yes. Beyond expiry, Smart SSL flags certificates that are misconfigured or mismatched with your domain, common causes of HTTPS errors. Catching these early means your padlock stays intact and visitors keep seeing a secure connection.
Yes. From the WP Tailwatch mobile app and cloud dashboard you can see SSL status and expiry for every site you own in one place, which is ideal for agencies managing certificates across many WordPress installs.
If a certificate expires, browsers block the site with a security warning and HTTPS stops working, costing you traffic, conversions, and trust. Smart SSL exists to prevent that scenario by alerting you early, so you renew before the certificate ever lapses.
Keep the padlock, and the trust.
Monitor every SSL certificate, get alerts before expiry, and never serve a "not secure" warning again. Start free today.
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- No credit card
- 14-day money-back on paid plans