August Product Update: A New Activity Hub, Smarter Portfolio Management, and Safer Site Setup

August brought five updates to MyPressable: a new Activity Hub for tracking jobs and account activity in one place, expanded MCP collaborator management across entire portfolios, Pressable DDEV tools integrated directly into MyPressable, more flexible site naming, and encrypted Environment Variables for storing sensitive site credentials.

1. Global Activity Hub

The new Activity Hub brings account activity and long-running jobs into one central dashboard. You can now see what is happening across your account without returning to the individual page where a task was started.

• Centralized activity feed. View recent account events, backups, restores, data transfers, clones, new site builds, and ownership transfers in one place.
• Real-time job tracking. Follow long-running tasks while they are in progress without revisiting the original job page.
• Failure visibility. Failed operations appear directly in the activity feed, making it easier to spot issues and follow up.
• Account-wide activity history. See actions taken by teammates and collaborators, including resource orders, PHP memory upgrades, worker expansions, and site ownership transfers.

How to get started: Log in to MyPressable and select Activity Hub from the main sidebar under Account.

2. Manage Collaborators Across Every Site in a Single Request

Pressable MCP’s collaborator tools now operate across your entire portfolio in a single request instead of one site at a time. This makes common onboarding, offboarding, and permission changes easier to manage for larger teams.

Five new capabilities are available through your connected AI assistant.

• Add collaborators to many sites at once. Add one or more people to a group of sites or your entire portfolio with the permissions you choose.
• Grant a permission across many sites. Give a specific permission, such as DNS management or WordPress access, across multiple sites while keeping existing permissions intact.
• Revoke a permission across many sites. Remove a specific permission across multiple sites without changing anything else a collaborator can access.
• Remove collaborators from many sites at once. Remove one or more people from a group of sites or your entire account, with the option to delete their WordPress user on each site.
• Check on a change while it runs. Large requests run in the background and process each site independently, giving you a breakdown of what succeeded, what failed, and why.

Permission checks happen for each person and each site, so requests only affect sites and permissions the requesting user is authorized to manage.

How to get started: Connect your preferred MCP AI assistant and use simple prompts to manage collaborators across your portfolio, such as “add Erin to all my sites with DNS access.”

3. Pressable DDEV in MyPressable

Pressable DDEV, our open source local development add-on, now has dedicated pages inside MyPressable.

• Tools overview. A new Pressable DDEV page under Tools explains how syncing works, what moves between your local and Pressable environments, and how to get started.
• Pre-filled site commands. Each site’s Pressable DDEV page under Site Tools provides commands populated with that site’s primary domain, SSH username, and local URL.
• SSH key checks. The site-level page checks whether an active SSH key is configured and provides a link to fix the setup if needed.
• Simplified daily workflow. After the one-time setup, the page keeps the two commands you will use most often close at hand: pulling a live site into your local environment and pushing a local copy back to Pressable.
• Permission-based access. Site-level DDEV tools are available to account owners and collaborators with both Manage WP and Manage SFTP/SSH permissions.

How to get started: Log in to MyPressable, select a site, and go to Site Tools > Pressable DDEV for pre-filled commands, or visit Tools > Pressable DDEV for the overview and setup guide.

4. Flexible Site Naming

Creating a new site now gives you more flexibility when choosing a name. The Site Name field accepts spaces, capital letters, and punctuation, while MyPressable handles the system-friendly formatting for you.

• Flexible text input. Enter your site name as you want it to appear, including spaces, capitals, and punctuation.
• Live system name preview. See the formatted system name beneath the field as you type.
• Real-time availability checks. Find out immediately whether your chosen name is available.
• Automatic suggestions. If a name is already taken, MyPressable suggests an available alternative.
• Readable display names. Your original site name is saved as the site’s Display Name, so your dashboard keeps the name you entered.

How to get started: Log in to MyPressable, go to Sites > Add Site, and enter your site name on the final setup step to see the live preview and availability check.

5. Secure Environment Variables for Your Site

A new Environment Variables section on the site Security page gives developers a secure place to store API keys, service credentials, and other sensitive values without editing wp-config.php.

• Dedicated variable management. Add, update, and delete key-value pairs directly from the site’s Security page.
• Encrypted values. Variables are encrypted when saved and masked in the dashboard afterward.
• Safer configuration changes. Updates take effect at the environment level without requiring edits to site files.
• Developer guidance. The page includes examples showing how to retrieve stored variables from WordPress themes and plugins.

How to get started: Log in to MyPressable, select a site, and go to Security > Environment Variables to add and manage your encrypted site variables.

For more information about these features and other recent releases, visit the Pressable Knowledge Base and Pressable Changelog.

Suzanne Kolpakov

Suzanne leads Product Marketing at Pressable, where she focuses on translating complex hosting technology into clear, empowering solutions for creators and businesses. Driven by a passion for the WordPress community, she strives to show how the right platform can be a catalyst for growth and innovation. Suzanne believes that great marketing starts with authentic storytelling and making high-performance tech feel accessible to everyone. She lives in the Metro Atlanta area with her two children and two cats. When she’s not scaling the Pressable brand, you’ll find her navigating the local trails or enjoying the vibrant energy of the South.