Steve Hanlon
fdca9c3079
Replaces the 'inactive themes count' finding with a clearer breakdown: Keep set (each gets a 'Keep — <why>' row): - The active theme (always) - The parent of the active theme (if a child theme is in use and the parent exists on disk) - The newest Twenty* default installed (as a fallback we can swap to if the active theme breaks during work) Removal candidates (one row per inactive theme not in the keep set): - 'Candidate' rows for the technician to walk down and remove - Summary line warns at >3 candidates - 'none' ok row if every installed theme is a keeper Smoke-tested on testsite with three configurations: - Default theme active, no child: keep active + Twenty Twenty-Five fallback; one removal candidate. - Cluttered (Astra + Hello Elementor + extra Twenty* installed): same keepers, 4 candidates surfaced. - Astra active (custom, no child): keep Astra + Twenty Twenty-Five fallback; 4 candidates including any unused Twenty* and Hello Elementor.
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
- Open Tools → Site Healthcheck.
- Confirm the recovery plugin status panel shows ✓ active.
- Click Start new healthcheck.
- Work through each step card. For each: choose a status (done / skipped / blocked / n/a) and add notes.
- Click Finish & generate report.
- 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
natsortorder). - Conditionally drop on one install: use the
wph_stepsfilter tounsetthe 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