Documentation

Setup & everyday use.

Everything below reflects the current release. Install to first branded handover pack is typically under five minutes.

Before you start

You need WordPress 6.0+ on PHP 7.4+, an administrator login, and the plugin zip plus licence key from your purchase email. Installation never touches your theme or content.

Setup, step by step

  1. Install the plugin

    In wp-admin go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose the zip from your purchase email, install and activate. Run one edition only.

  2. Enter your licence key

    Open the Licence screen and paste the key from your purchase email. Keys are domain-based — no account, no phoning home.

  3. Add your branding

    Company name, website link, logo URL, brand colour, the client's name and a personal cover note. The pack reads as a document from your agency.

  4. Choose the sections

    Eleven toggles: site overview, recommended next actions, plugins (incl. must-use & drop-ins), themes, users & access, custom post types, custom taxonomies, menus, forms, WP-Cron tasks, and recent setting changes. Shape the pack per audience.

  5. Generate

    Click Preview — the pack is read live from the site at that moment, never from a stale export.

  6. Deliver

    Use the report's Print / Save as PDF button for print-tuned A4, or Download HTML for a portable, self-contained file that opens anywhere.

Everyday use

The screens you'll actually live in.

When to regenerate

The pack is a snapshot — regenerate in one click for quarterly reviews, renewals, insurance records or when a client asks "what exactly do we have?".

Recommended next actions

Generated from the scan — outdated software, inactive plugins and themes, admin-account hygiene, operational issues — prioritised so the reader knows what matters first.

The setting-change log

Option changes are recorded from activation, so the "recent setting changes" section shows what moved lately — before the handover conversation starts.

Onboarding new clients

Generate a pack the day you take a site on: it documents what you inherited before you touch anything.

Pair with WP Client Report

The handover pack is the snapshot; monthly maintenance reporting with scheduled digests is its sister plugin at wpclientreport.com. Many agencies run both.

One edition rule

Run one edition at a time; a second edition bails with a polite notice.

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