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Getting started

Installing the eight plugins
How to install Consent, Analytics, Backup, Performance, SEO, Security, Roles and Media
Enter and verify the license key
Where the key belongs, which statuses exist and what happens without a license server
Quick start: the first few minutes
How the interface is structured, how saving works and where to start in each plugin
System requirements
Minimum versions, required PHP extensions and how to check both yourself
Installing an update
How to install a new version and what the plugins update on their own
Link multiple websites
Connect other installations via application password and operate them remotely
Back up and transfer settings
Take settings along as a file, send them to connected sites or move them with the whole installation
Deactivate or delete
What is cleaned up on deactivation and which data survives deletion
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Analytics

Set up tracking – measure without cookies
Where to switch tracking on and off and how the plugin recognises a visitor in the first place
Define goals and attribute UTM campaigns
Five detection types for conversions and what the plugin reads from utm_ parameters
Reading heat maps
How individual clicks turn into a heat image and what the bar underneath says about the data
Using session recording
Turning recordings on, playing them back and sharing them – and what gets masked
Reports by email and CSV export
Set the period and segment, schedule the report and download analyses as a file
Rage clicks, dead clicks and forms
Where visitors get stuck and which thresholds sit behind the three friction signals
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Consent

Customizing banner and dialog
Set texts, colors, dimensions and buttons of the consent dialog and the bar
Script blocking: exactly what the plugin does
How tracker scripts, stylesheets, embeds and shop scripts are neutralised until consent is given
Cookie scan: detect services and cookies
How the scanner crawls your own website, what it evaluates and what to do afterwards
View and export proof records
What gets logged for every decision and how to filter, export and clean up the log
Generate legal texts and cookie policy
Generate a cookie policy from the recorded services and six documents from your details
Validity, withdrawal and asking again
How long a decision counts and which ways visitors can change it again
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Backup

Creating your first backup
What to check before the first run, how to start it and how to tell that the archive is complete
Backups automatically on a schedule
Daily run, finer intervals, and what WP-Cron has to say about it
Restoring a backup
The guided flow with check report, data-loss preview, maintenance mode and a way back
Storing backups off-site
FTP/SFTP, Amazon S3 including compatible services and Google Drive — the plugin ships no other destinations
Encrypt archives with AES-256
How to set the recovery key, keep it off-site and switch encryption on afterwards
Retention: how many versions are kept
How the limit counts, how to apply it right away and how to protect individual backups from deletion
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Performance

Set up and clear the page cache
How the file-based page cache works, who it skips and when it clears itself.
Shrink HTML, CSS and JavaScript
What the three Minify toggles change in the delivered document and what they leave untouched.
Lighten scripts: defer, ?ver=, emoji, embeds
Four toggles in the “Assets” panel that reduce render blocking and unnecessary requests in the frontend.
Lazy-Load and missing image dimensions
Have images and iframes load later and avoid layout shifts caused by missing dimensions.
Database cleanup — what gets deleted
Cleanup removes entries for good; here you see exactly which ones those are and what is missing afterwards.
Browser cache, CDN and connection hints
Write cache rules into the .htaccess, rewrite asset addresses to a CDN host, prepare connections.
Set up critical CSS
Analyse per template, compare in the preview, only then go live — and what to do when a run fails.
Check, measure and switch off image sizes
How to find out which image sizes your installation actually registers, how much space each one takes up and what happens when you switch them off.
Set up WebP and AVIF
How Kakapo Performance creates additional WebP and AVIF files on upload, delivers them via <picture>, and what to do when nothing is created.
Setting up the object cache with Redis or Memcached
From checking the PHP extension through the connection test to the written drop-in — and all the way back.
Setting up cache warming
How to check whether your server can call itself, which addresses enter the queue and what the numbers mean after the run.
Autoload: measure the options loaded on every request and switch them
How to find out which options WordPress loads on every request, and which of them you can safely take out of the loading process.
Running the batch job over the existing media library
How to apply WebP, AVIF and metadata removal to images that were already uploaded before you switched it on.
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SEO

Title template and default description
How to set page titles and meta descriptions centrally and where the four placeholders apply.
XML sitemap and robots.txt
Provide the sitemap, add your own robots.txt rules and control the output.
Setting up redirects
Create 301 and 302 rules so old URLs point to the new targets.
Content analysis and broken link check
Read the on-page metrics of your posts and find broken links in your content.
Open Graph and structured data
Switch on preview tags for sharing and schema.org data for search engines.
Set up and work through the 404 log
The log collects every address that leads nowhere, with frequency, timestamps and referrer — and a redirect can be created from every row.
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Security

Login protection: limit failed attempts per IP
How the failed-attempt limit counts, when an IP address gets locked out and how to lift a lockout
Enable two-factor by email
Code prompt after the password: enable globally, unlock per administrator and test the flow beforehand
Hardening: headers, file editor, request filter
Which toggles the Hardening area offers and what each one changes in what gets delivered
Check core files against wordpress.org
Checksum comparison for every file of the WordPress core and what changed, missing and unknown mean
Read and export the activity log
Which events end up in the log table, how long they stay and how the CSV export works
Malware scan across wp-content
Pattern search for web shells and obfuscated code, with clear limits and no automatic judgement
Moving the login URL: set up, verify, revert
How to move the WordPress login to a path of your own, what Kakapo Security checks itself in the process and how to get back out.
Set up the file watcher
How to create the confirmed baseline, read findings and set up the instant alert so that it actually gets read when it matters.
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Roles

Create or clone a role of your own
Why cloning is almost always the better way, and what happens to the users when you delete
Setting capabilities in the matrix
What a tick really does, which capabilities count as sensitive, and how custom post types join in
Moving users and granting several roles
Bulk moving all holders of a role, multiple roles per user, and per-user capabilities for the special case
Restricting content and parts of a page
The “Access” box in the editor, what a blocked request shows, and the shortcodes for parts of a page
Admin menu, navigation menu and widgets per role
Why hidden does not mean forbidden — and where the real lock sits
Exporting the setup, reading it in and distributing it across the network
The whole permissions setup as a file, the two import modes and keeping roles in step across a multisite
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Media

Create folders and file your media
How to organise the media library into folders without moving a single file.
Clean up the media library
How to find images without references, duplicates and orphaned files, and what can still be restored after removing them.
Add alternative texts
How to provide alternative texts for many images in one place, without opening each one.
Replace or rename a file
How to replace an image without its address changing, and rename files cleanly.
Check the provenance of an image
How to find out, for a single image, what its file says about how it came about.
Check the whole media library
The batch run works through large media libraries too, in chunks and without an open browser.
Set up the badge in the frontend
Which levels are marked publicly, with what text and in what place.
Deciding the doubtful cases
The review list, the manual decision and what wins over the measurement.
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Account & license

Enter and activate the license key
Where the license section sits in each plugin and how you enter the key there
What the license status shows
Active, Stored, Unverified, Invalid — where the information comes from and when it is checked
License when moving or copying a website
What is transmitted during activation and why a copy needs the key again
Set up White-Label
Your own brand name, your own color and your own entry in the WordPress plugin list
Who may change license and White-Label
Which role may open the system areas and how you unlock them in Consent
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Troubleshooting

Scheduled backup does not start
Why the daily run can fail to happen and where you read the real cron status
Connection to the Remote-Site fails
What the messages mean when connecting and testing a remote installation
Placeholder instead of video or map
Once the embed block is switched on, a placeholder box appears instead of the frame
Analytics is not counting visitors
The check chain before every measurement and the order you work through it
Locked out of the login after failed attempts
How the temporary lockout comes about and where you lift it again
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