Seed & Solace Website Fixes

Description

Seed & Solace’s website audit reads a website and finds where its pages disagree with each other, where what it says about the business is out of date, and where a page leaves a visitor with no next step. The audit itself is a paid service (a one-off £79, no subscription) from Seed & Solace Ltd: Seed & Solace’s servers read every page of your website, compare them, work out what is wrong and what each fix should be, and a Seed & Solace consultant reviews the audit before it is sent to you. This plugin is how the audit carries out its one-click fixes on your website. All of the plugin’s own code is included here and nothing in it is locked.

You connect the plugin to your audit once, with a code from the audit. After that you choose and make every change in the audit itself: press Apply on a finding, your browser takes the instruction to your website, the plugin makes the change, and you are back in your audit with links to see it on your live pages. Undo works the same way. The Website Fixes screen in WordPress shows what has been done.

Only the administrator who connected the plugin can make changes, and only with an instruction signed for their own audit, so a link from anywhere else cannot change your site.

It makes changes by one of two routes:

  • Where WordPress holds the content (the block editor, custom blocks, synced patterns, Divi 4 and 5 and Divi’s Theme Builder) or Elementor does, it edits it there. The fix is permanent and shows in your editor.
  • Where your theme or another page builder holds the content, it leaves what is stored alone and puts it right each time the page loads. Visitors and search engines get the corrected wording on the page. This lasts for as long as the plugin is switched on, and the screen tells you how to make it permanent.

It only applies the fixes in your audit. Page titles, search descriptions, image descriptions (alt text) and your business details for search engines change only where the audit lists them, with the wording you choose. Where Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress or The SEO Framework is installed, titles and descriptions are saved there, so you see them in your SEO plugin as usual. It never changes a web address or a heading level, and never deletes a page: a leftover page can be switched to a draft, which you can publish again.

Without a Seed & Solace website audit the plugin does nothing.

This plugin is not affiliated with or endorsed by the makers of WordPress, Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress, The SEO Framework, Elementor or Divi; it works alongside them.

External services

This plugin connects to Seed & Solace’s website audit service, run by Seed & Solace Ltd at https://tend.seedandsolace.com, which holds your website audit.

  • When you press Connect on the Website Fixes screen, it sends the connection code you entered and your website’s home address to https://tend.seedandsolace.com/api/connect, and receives your audit. Nothing is sent before you press Connect.
  • When your audit has been updated, it fetches the newer copy of your audit from the address of your audit on tend.seedandsolace.com. Only the audit’s address is requested; nothing about your website or its visitors is sent.
  • Only if Seed & Solace cannot read your website from outside (some hosts block outside readers) and sends you a link to do so: when you press “Let Seed & Solace read my pages”, the plugin reads your website’s public pages as a visitor sees them, checks which of your own links work, and sends those pages, their addresses and the link results, with the code from the link and your website’s home address, to https://tend.seedandsolace.com/api/read. Nothing is sent unless you press that button. Pages are kept for 14 days to build your audit.
  • When you press Apply, Undo or “Check what has been done” in your audit, your own browser carries a signed instruction from your audit to your website, and carries the result back to your audit. The plugin sends nothing to Seed & Solace for this.

The plugin never sends your visitors’ or customers’ details, your passwords or the contents of your WordPress to Seed & Solace.

Terms of sale: https://tend.seedandsolace.com/terms.html
Privacy notice: https://tend.seedandsolace.com/privacy.html

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Installation

Before you start, make sure you have a recent backup of your website (most hosts make one every day).

  1. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add Plugin, search for “Seed & Solace Website Fixes”, then press Install Now and Activate. (Or upload the zip you downloaded from your audit: Plugins › Add Plugin › Upload Plugin.)
  2. In your website audit, go to “Fix things in one click” and press Connect. You come to the Website Fixes screen in WordPress with your code filled in: press Connect there.
  3. Make your fixes from your audit: choose, press “Apply on your website”, and you come back to your audit when it is done.

If you cannot add plugins, your host or account does not allow them: ask your host or web developer. Seed & Solace never asks for your password.

FAQ

Do I need a Seed & Solace website audit?

Yes. The plugin makes the fixes listed in your audit and nothing else. Without an audit it does nothing.

What happens if I remove the plugin?

Permanent edits stay. Corrections made as pages are served stop, and those pages go back to how they were.

Who can make changes?

Only the administrator who connected the plugin, from their website audit. Other administrators can see what has been done on the Website Fixes screen.

Is it safe?

Every change needs an instruction signed for your own audit, made by the person who connected the plugin while logged in to WordPress as an administrator. Each instruction works once and only for 30 minutes. You see every change before you make it and can undo it.

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Contributors & Developers

“Seed & Solace Website Fixes” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

0.9.0

When your host stops Seed & Solace reading your website from outside, you can let the plugin send your public pages for your audit, with one button, from a link Seed & Solace sends you.

0.8.3

New name: Seed & Solace Website Fixes. The note on the Plugins screen shows only until you connect or dismiss it.

0.8.2

Removes the old way of shipping an audit inside the plugin. Every website now connects to its audit with a code from the audit, and the plugin never loads anything but the sealed audit data Seed & Solace sends when you press Connect.

0.8.0

Everything the plugin adds to WordPress now has its own distinctive name (seedsolace_tend), so it can never clash with another plugin. Fixes already made, and their undo, carry over by themselves when you update.

0.7.2

Adds nothing to your visitors’ pages except the corrected wording (no note in the page’s code), and no longer shows a count beside the menu item.

0.7.1

When you press Connect in your audit on a website that is already connected, the Connect form now shows at the top of the plugin’s screen with your code filled in, instead of in a fold at the bottom. A link changed only from http:// to https:// now shows both addresses in full.

0.7.0

One plugin for every website. Connect it to your website audit with a code from the audit (no audit is built into the plugin any more), ready for WordPress’s plugin directory.

Earlier versions

Trial versions used privately with pilot customers before the plugin was listed on WordPress.org.