Description
AIFQ Site Review helps you make sense of a WordPress site before you change something, call a developer, or simply want to know what deserves attention.
It reviews selected local WordPress signals and turns them into practical decisions: what needs attention now, what is worth reviewing, what can wait, and who is best placed to handle it.
Use AIFQ Site Review when you:
- take over or inherit a WordPress site
- want a second opinion before making technical changes
- have updated plugins, themes, hosting or site configuration
- are preparing or checking maintenance work
- need to know what to ask your developer or hosting provider
- want a clearer picture without working through a long technical checklist
What you get
AIFQ Site Review keeps the main review focused on the decisions that matter:
- a calm Site status overview
- a recommended first or next step
- clear Needs attention and Worth reviewing sections
- plain-language explanations for technical findings
- an “If left as-is” explanation where useful
- “Best handled by” guidance for each finding
- a copyable review summary
- a copyable message for your developer or hosting provider
- Since your last review context for meaningful new and resolved findings
- Mark as reviewed, so acknowledged findings can leave the active recommendations without being presented as fixed
- Decision Memory for selected findings, so you can record why you chose to keep, defer or hand off a setup and retain that context for a later review
- an All checks view when you want the technical detail behind the summary
Why keep AIFQ installed?
A WordPress review is a point-in-time view, while the site keeps changing.
Plugins and themes are updated, maintenance work is carried out, hosting settings can change and new configuration can be introduced. Keeping AIFQ installed means you can run another review later with useful local continuity instead of starting from zero every time. For selected findings, a saved Decision can also preserve the reason you chose to keep, defer or hand off the setup.
AIFQ is not designed as a generic activity log or surveillance dashboard. Its job is to help make each review clearer and more useful.
Local-first by design
The current version works locally inside WordPress. Review analysis is not sent to an external AIFQ service, and the plugin does not include telemetry or usage tracking.
AIFQ Site Review is deliberately not a replacement for dedicated security, backup, caching, SEO, performance-testing or maintenance tools. Its job is to help you understand local setup signals and make a clearer next decision.
Privacy
AIFQ Site Review is local-first:
- No external API calls are made by this version for review analysis.
- No telemetry or usage tracking is included.
- Review results, reviewed status, saved Decision Memory choices and optional context notes, and selected technical continuity data are stored locally in the WordPress database.
- WooCommerce customer records, orders and payment data are not read for review findings.
- User email addresses are not included in review output.
- Passwords, API keys, WordPress salts and secret credentials are not collected or reported.
- A small number of account-related checks use limited local facts, such as whether the username
adminexists, aggregate administrator counts and aggregate Application Password counts. These checks do not report user email addresses or password values.
AIFQ Site Review does not provide a cloud dashboard and does not send this local review history to AIFQ.
Important limits
AIFQ Site Review provides practical indications, not guarantees.
It is not:
- a full security audit
- a malware scanner
- a vulnerability database scanner
- a firewall
- a live speed test or PageSpeed tool
- a speed or uptime guarantee
- a backup solution
- an automatic fixer
- a replacement for a developer, hosting provider or maintenance provider
Some hosting, CDN, caching, security and infrastructure behavior cannot be known reliably from inside WordPress. Where AIFQ cannot know something with reasonable certainty, findings should be treated as context to verify rather than proof of an external server condition.
AIFQ Site Review helps you understand setup signals and prepare better questions for the right person. It does not provide custom support for fixing individual websites.
Translation status
AIFQ Site Review is currently English-first. User-facing plugin strings use WordPress translation functions and can be translated through the WordPress.org translation platform.
Screenshots
Installation
- In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New.
- Search for “AIFQ Site Review”.
- Click Install Now, then Activate.
- Open AIFQ Site Review from the admin menu.
- Click Run review.
Manual installation:
- Download the plugin ZIP from WordPress.org.
- Upload it via Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin, or upload the extracted folder to
/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate AIFQ Site Review in WordPress.
- Open AIFQ Site Review from the admin menu and click Run review.
FAQ
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What does AIFQ Site Review actually do?
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AIFQ Site Review gives you a local technical second opinion on your WordPress setup. It reviews selected WordPress configuration and site signals, explains what deserves attention in plain language, recommends a sensible next step, and helps identify who is best placed to handle each finding.
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Why would I keep AIFQ installed after the first review?
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Because a review is a point-in-time view. WordPress sites change through plugin and theme updates, maintenance work, hosting changes and configuration changes. Keeping AIFQ installed lets you run another review later with useful previous-review context instead of starting from zero every time. For selected findings, Decision Memory can also show the decision you previously saved.
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Is AIFQ an activity log or continuous monitoring tool?
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No. AIFQ Site Review is not a generic activity log and it does not run scheduled reviews in this version. To support reliable review continuity, it can retain a limited local record of selected technical WordPress changes while the plugin is active. That data stays in your WordPress database and is used conservatively; it is not sent to AIFQ.
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Does AIFQ Site Review send review data externally?
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No. This version performs its review analysis locally inside WordPress and does not send review data to an external analysis service. No telemetry or usage tracking is included.
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What information does AIFQ store locally?
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AIFQ stores the information it needs for the current review, previous-review context, reviewed findings, saved Decision Memory choices and optional context notes, and selected technical continuity. This stays in the local WordPress database. It does not store WooCommerce orders, customer records, payment data, passwords, API keys or WordPress salts as part of its review history.
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What is Decision Memory?
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For selected findings, Decision Memory lets you save a simple outcome such as keeping the current setup, handling it elsewhere or deferring it, with optional context. A later review can show that previous decision without treating it as technical truth or assuming the finding was fixed. Reviewing the decision again creates new history rather than silently overwriting the earlier decision.
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Does AIFQ Site Review fix issues automatically?
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No. AIFQ Site Review is a clarity and second-opinion tool. It explains signals and next steps, but it does not automatically change your website.
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Do all findings mean something is definitely wrong?
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No. Some findings are clear local facts, while others are context that may deserve review. AIFQ is intentionally conservative about conditions WordPress cannot fully see, such as external caching, CDN behavior, hosting backups or server-level configuration.
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What should I do after a review?
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Start with the recommended first or next step. Read why it matters, then use the “Best handled by” guidance to decide whether it is best handled by you, your developer, your hosting provider, or a combination of them. You can copy the review summary or handoff message when you need help from someone else.
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Who is AIFQ Site Review for?
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AIFQ Site Review is for WordPress site owners, WooCommerce store owners, freelancers, agencies and hosting/support teams who want a clearer second opinion before making changes or asking for help.
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Is AIFQ Site Review a security scanner or malware scanner?
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No. AIFQ can show selected security-related WordPress setup signals, but it is not a vulnerability scanner, malware scanner, firewall or full security audit.
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Is AIFQ Site Review a speed test?
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No. AIFQ does not run live speed tests and does not replace tools such as PageSpeed Insights, WebPageTest or GTmetrix. It can review local setup signals that may affect complexity, maintainability or performance expectations.
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Can AIFQ detect hosting backups, server-side caching or CDN behavior?
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Not reliably in every environment from inside WordPress. Where those signals are uncertain, AIFQ presents them as things to verify rather than hard facts.
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Does AIFQ Site Review provide custom support for my website?
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No. AIFQ Site Review helps you understand setup signals and prepare better questions for your developer or hosting provider. It does not provide custom support for fixing individual websites.
Contributors & Developers
“AIFQ Site Review” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
Translate “AIFQ Site Review” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.12.0
- Adds local Decision Memory for selected findings with clear outcomes and optional context notes.
- Keeps Decision history immutable: reviewing an existing decision creates a new superseding record instead of overwriting the earlier decision.
- Shows previous Decision context when the same finding is active again, while keeping current WordPress state authoritative.
- Extends the Decision flow to eligible Worth reviewing findings without turning them into Needs attention items.
- Keeps ineligible findings on the established one-click reviewed flow and does not introduce automatic “Relevant again” claims in v1.12.
- Keeps Decision Memory and technical continuity data local to WordPress; no cloud analysis, telemetry, scheduled reviews, AI analysis or automatic fixes are added.
1.11.0
- Improves the local continuity foundation used between reviews so selected technical change context can be retained conservatively on the site.
- Hardens plugin and theme state handling across normal updates, automatic updates, direct filesystem changes, object-cache environments and reverse-proxy HTTP/HTTPS differences.
- Treats uncertain filesystem reads conservatively so temporary read failures are not recorded as plugin or theme removals.
- Keeps historical continuity separate from the current review: saved technical context does not by itself create an active finding.
- Keeps continuity data local and bounded inside WordPress.
- No Timeline or generic activity-log UI, scheduled reviews, cloud dashboard, external analysis service, telemetry, AI or automatic fixes.
1.10.2
- Makes the expanded
Since your last reviewchange list reversible:View allnow toggles toShow fewer changesand collapses back to the compact three-change view. - Keeps the change control keyboard-accessible with
aria-expandedstate and returns the control to view after collapsing a long list. - No review logic, finding semantics, storage, external calls, telemetry, scheduled reviews, cloud services, Pro features, AI or automatic fixes.
1.10.1
- Removes the legacy 0–100 score from the dashboard, review summary and developer/host handoff; new reviews no longer store score or subscore values.
- Treats the first 1.10.1 review as a fresh comparison baseline so changed AIFQ semantics are not presented as site changes.
- Reworks Since your last review so it compares saved reviews without claiming an exact event date that AIFQ did not observe.
- Shows when a previously reviewed finding becomes relevant again and adds an “If left as-is” consequence where useful.
- Makes HTTPS, caching, cron and plugin-absence wording more conservative where WordPress cannot see the full hosting or external setup.
- Moves missing SEO, security and backup plugin detections to neutral site context instead of implying that another plugin should be installed.
- Adds
aifq_sr_findings,aifq_sr_handoff_messageandaifq_sr_review_summaryfilters for trusted local integrations. - Improves text contrast, minimum label sizes and review-status accessibility while preserving the Calm Control layout.
- Removes obsolete category-tab JavaScript and selected dead score code.
- No external calls, telemetry, scheduled reviews, cloud services, Pro features, AI or automatic fixes.
1.10.0
- Rebuilds the review dashboard around the Calm Control visual direction with warmer neutral surfaces and restrained status color.
- Leads with Site status, meaningful change, prioritized Needs attention and quieter Worth reviewing items instead of a score-led dashboard.
- Moves the full check inventory to a separate on-demand view so the main review stays calm and focused.
- Adds calmer, high-signal local checks for privileged registration defaults, pending administrator email changes, disabled page-load cron, administrator access, Application Password use, Action Scheduler backlog, autoloaded option attribution, environment-aware indexing and advanced WordPress components.
1.9.0
- Adds Since your last review context, Last checked, Mark as reviewed and a shorter action-first dashboard.
- Reviewed findings can leave the active recommendations without being presented as resolved.
- Adds severity-upgrade resurfacing for reviewed findings.
- Improves category navigation and secondary disclosure sections.
- No scheduled reviews, external calls, telemetry, Pro features, AI, PageSpeed, PDF export or automatic fixes.