Rao Azwar

<p><strong>Site Checklist & Launch Assistant</strong> helps you set up and launch your WordPress site with confidence. Whether you’re a first-time site owner, blogger, or small business, this plugin walks you through every important step — from basic settings and security to SEO, performance, and launch day.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>40+ guided tasks</strong> — Organized into 10 categories: Basic Setup, Security, Design & Theme, Essential Pages, Performance, SEO, Analytics, Backup, Pre-Launch, and Launch Day.</li>
<li><strong>Visual progress</strong> — See your completion percentage and track progress by category with a clean, modern interface.</li>
<li><strong>One-click links</strong> — Each task includes direct links to the right WordPress settings or recommended plugins so you never get lost.</li>
<li><strong>Task statuses</strong> — Mark tasks as Not Started, In Progress, Complete, or Skipped. Your progress is saved automatically.</li>
<li><strong>Dashboard widget</strong> — Quick overview of your launch progress right on the main WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li><strong>Beginner-friendly</strong> — Clear descriptions and “Why it matters” notes for every task.</li>
<li><strong>Plugin recommendations</strong> — Suggested plugins (e.g. Yoast SEO, Wordfence, UpdraftPlus) with links to install them.</li>
<li><strong>Mobile-friendly admin</strong> — Use the checklist on any device.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who is this for?</h4>
<ul>
<li>First-time WordPress users who don’t know where to start</li>
<li>Bloggers and small businesses launching a new site</li>
<li>Anyone who wants a structured, stress-free launch process</li>
</ul>
<h4>No account required</h4>
<p>All data is stored in your WordPress database. The free version does not send any data to external servers.</p>
<h4>Admin only — no public-site changes</h4>
<p>This plugin only runs in the WordPress admin (dashboard and checklist page). It does not modify or add anything to your site’s front-end; no links or content are embedded on the public site.</p>
<h3>Donate</h3>
<p>If this plugin has been useful to you, consider <a href="https://raoazwar.dev/donate" rel="nofollow ugc">supporting further development</a>. Thank you!</p>


Azwar Launch Task Manager

Step-by-step checklist to build, optimize, and launch your WordPress site from the dashboard.

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<p>Too many plugins installed to do basic things? This plugin tries to bring some common ones into one plugin to make life that little bit easier.</p>
<p><strong>Current functionality</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Identify the production URL so as to apply specific logic or hooks depending on which environment the site is in</li>
<li>Block visitors to the staging site based on IP or by using a specific cookie – great for showing clients but not the world</li>
<li>Find & replace functionality – great for changing from a staging URL to a production URL</li>
<li>Auto 301 redirect to the site domain for WordPress – useful to ensure everyone is using the correct path i.e. with www (or not) and https (or not)</li>
<li>Add additional classes to the main body tag to easily target device and operating system i.e. iOS, Android, Chrome, etc…</li>
<li>Sitemap generator to display a list of pages (or any post type) on the site as well as offering the ability to exclude pages</li>
<li>WooCommerce settings to disable categories list on single product page, remove reviews tab, remove product count on categories</li>
<li>When using Visual Composer you can automatically load in any PHP files that make use of vc_map() within your theme</li>
<li>When using Gravity Forms & Bootstrap all correct classes will be applied to input boxes and buttons. Also, a new field type is added to add columns to forms as well as placing the submit button wherever you like</li>
<li>Gravity Forms confirmation message appear underneath any fixed header when using AJAX. This hook allows you to scroll to the correct position based on the header</li>
<li>Can specify a stylesheet that you want to appear last in the enqueue – useful for overwriting parent themes or other plugins</li>
<li>YouTube embedded videos can have the title, related videos, and controls switched off</li>
<li>Change the sender name and email address for emails sent</li>
<li>Short code for displaying the current year – useful for keeping copyright notices up-to-date</li>
<li>WooCommerce template tweaks for improved usability when using the Jupiter theme</li>
<li>Set parent hierarchy pages as place holders so they don’t provide links in menus to empty pages</li>
<li>Simple short code for the current page title – useful to add in to links</li>
<li>Disable certain notifications for admin</li>
<li>Added Relevanssi support for XforWooCommerce filter plugin when AJAX is in use</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Coming soon</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Drag & drop page re-ordering</li>
<li>Improve noindexing on WooCommerce hidden products as well as ensuring the don’t appear in sitemaps both HTML & XML</li>
<li>Auto hide a page from any menu when its status is no longer published</li>
<li>Additional default settings for Visual Composer to make it easier to extend and remove built in elements & templates</li>
<li>More to come!</li>
</ul>


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