Manage GPL
Whitelabel · Agency plan

Your brand on every
client's WordPress site.

Set your agency's plugin name, description, author, and homepage link in one form. Save once — Manage GPL pushes the new branding to every connected site in parallel, with a live progress bar and per-site retry.

Whitelabel is on the Agency plan · up to 1,000 sites · 3-day money-back guarantee

Two modes

Brand it. Or hide it completely.

Your choice on every site — replace the connector's identity with your own, or remove it from view entirely.

Brand it

The plugin stays visible on the WordPress Plugins page, but every surface — name, description, author, homepage link — shows your agency. Clients see your brand, not ours.

Best for: agencies that want clients to see a maintenance toolkit from their trusted vendor.

Hide it completely. No trace.

Flip one toggle and the connector vanishes from the Plugins page and the Settings submenu. Clients browsing wp-admin see nothing — no plugin row, no menu item. The connector keeps working in the background; we keep talking to it over HMAC.

Best for: managed-service agencies where clients shouldn't know infrastructure tooling exists.

Hiding removes the plugin from the visible UI but not from disk — the file is still present and still GPLv2-licensed, which is a WordPress.org requirement for redistributable plugins.

What you can change

Five settings. Every connected site.

Four fields to make the connector look native to your agency — and one toggle to make it disappear entirely.

Plugin name

Rename "Manage GPL Connect" to anything that fits your brand — "Apex Maintenance Toolkit", "Your Agency Sync", whatever you like.

Description

Replace the default blurb with your own one-liner. Up to 255 characters — space for a short value proposition.

Author name

Set the author to your agency's name. Appears under the plugin on WordPress's Plugins page as "by [Your Agency]".

Author URL

Link the author name to your agency's website. Clients get your homepage when they click through the Plugins page.

Hide from wp-admin

Flip one toggle and the connector vanishes from the Plugins page and Settings menu entirely. Clients never see it.

Before / after

This is what your clients see.

Left: the default plugin row. Right: the same plugin after you save a global whitelabel profile.

Before · default branding
Manage GPL Connect
Centralize updates across every WordPress site you manage.
By Manage GPL · Version 1.14.0
After · your agency's branding
Apex Maintenance Toolkit
Keeps your Apex Digital site up-to-date, monitored, and secure.
By Apex Digital

Agency and client names in this example are illustrative.

How it works

Four steps. Two minutes.

01

Open Settings → Whitelabel

From your Manage GPL dashboard. One form, five fields, one hide-from-list toggle.

02

Fill in your agency details

Plugin name, description, author name, author URL. Preview updates live as you type.

03

Click Save global whitelabel

We queue a push job per connected site. Jobs run in parallel in batches of 10. For 100 sites, that's under 30 seconds end-to-end on typical hosting.

04

Watch the progress card

Live counter of applied / in-flight / retrying. If a site fails, click Retry on that row — no need to re-save the global profile.

Per-site override

Serving multiple agencies from one dashboard?

Set a different brand per site. The per-site profile takes precedence over the global one — so Apex Digital's sites show Apex branding while Nova Studio's sites show Nova branding, all from the same Manage GPL account.

Click any site in your dashboard, open its Whitelabel tab, fill in the override, save. The push happens to just that site.

Fallback chain
Per-site profile
↓ if not set
Global profile
↓ if not set
Default Manage GPL branding
Whitelabel FAQ

Common questions

Will the connector still appear in WordPress.org updates?
No. The connector checks in with Manage GPL for its own updates, not WordPress.org. When you whitelabel it, WP's update UI sees the renamed plugin and shows no updates — you push new connector versions from your Manage GPL dashboard instead.
What happens if I turn off whitelabel?
Click Remove global whitelabel on the Whitelabel settings page. A push runs to every connected site to wipe the branding overrides and restore the default "Manage GPL Connect" name, description, and author. Nothing is lost — the site row, activity log, pairing token, and HMAC credentials all stay intact; only the on-site plugin metadata flips back to the defaults.
Can a client see who actually made the plugin?
The plugin file on disk contains a GPLv2 licence and the real source, since we distribute under GPL. But the admin UI (Plugins page, Settings menu, "View details" modal) shows only your rebrand. If you hide it from the Plugins page, most clients won't even know it's there.
Does whitelabel affect the maintenance splash page?
The maintenance page uses your WordPress site's title (from get_bloginfo('name')), not the plugin's whitelabel name. That's deliberate — the splash is a site-wide view, so the site title is almost always what visitors expect to see.
What plan do I need?
Whitelabel is part of the Agency plan (up to 1,000 sites). Upgrade anytime from your billing dashboard — upgrades are prorated and take effect immediately. See pricing.

Ready to put your brand everywhere?

Whitelabel ships on the Agency plan — full branding control, up to 1,000 sites, 3-day money-back guarantee.