Site Healthcheck

Internal WordPress plugin that walks a technician through a structured healthcheck. Companion to wp-site-recovery, which it expects to be installed as step 0.

Install

ln -s ~/dev/wp-healthcheck /path/to/wp/wp-content/plugins/site-healthcheck

Then activate from Plugins. Settings appear under Tools → Site Healthcheck.

Use

1. Open Tools → Site Healthcheck.
2. Confirm the recovery plugin status panel shows ✓ active.
3. Click Start new healthcheck.
4. Work through each step card. For each: choose a status (done / skipped / blocked / n/a) and add notes.
5. Click Finish & generate report.
6. Download the Markdown report or copy it to clipboard.

One in-progress session per site at a time. Reports are not stored in the database (the plugin is meant to be uninstalled at the end of each engagement) — download them.

Adding, removing, reordering steps

Each step is a single file under includes/steps/ named <order>-<slug>.php.

<?php
// includes/steps/45-staging.php
return new class extends WPH_Step {
    public function id(): string { return 'staging'; }
    public function title(): string { return 'Step 4.5 — Verify Staging Sync'; }
    public function sub_items(): array {
        return ['Re-deploy from production', 'Run smoke tests'];
    }
};

• Add: drop a new file.
• Remove: delete the file.
• Reorder: rename the numeric prefix (steps are loaded in natsort order).
• Conditionally drop on one install: use the wph_steps filter to unset the step by id.

Stable string IDs (returned by id()) are what's stored in session data, so renaming a file does not break in-progress sessions as long as the id stays the same.

Phase roadmap

Phase 1 (this) is a checklist + Markdown report. Phase 3 will add per-step automation — backup detection, env auto-collect, plugin update intelligence, PageSpeed Insights, SSL checks, etc. See beads epic hc-5ix for the full plan.

Distribution

Internal/agency tool — not a WP.org plugin (decision hc-5ix.26). Distributed as a built ZIP. A self-hosted update channel is hc-5ix.27 on the phase-3 backlog.

Tracking

cd ~/dev/wp-healthcheck
bd list --label phase-1   # MVP work
bd list --label phase-3   # automation backlog