BigScoots Helper is a revolutionary plugin, 100% built in-house by the BigScoots engineering team. It brings transparency, management, and amazing functionality through your WordPress Admin panel and the BigScoots Portal.
BigScoots Helper was built with performance in mind. This means the plugin does not add extra load on your website or webpage load time. At BigScoots, we give performance the highest priority, and for every plugin we build, we ensure that they do not slow down customers' websites in any way. So, you can peacefully use BigScoots Helper knowing that not only it is backed and fully managed by BigScoots but also it is built with "performance" in mind.
What will this plugin do?
This new BigScoots Helper Plugin was developed internally by the BigScoots engineering team to automate several previously manual tasks and bring them into a single hub and user interface, streamlining the deployment, management, and administration of various modules and features over time.
One of the most significant productivity gains is removing the requirement that clients log into their WP Admin to make changes. Once everything is fully deployed, the BIgScoots Helper control and logs will be available inside the WPO portal, and any changes made in the portal will be reflected on the website.
What are the features of the BigScoots Helper plugin?
BigScoots Helper has many useful modules that users can activate/deactivate based on their requirements. Moreover, we are always working on adding new features and functionalities to the BigScoots Helper plugin in the future.
Here is the list of features and modules available in BigScoots Helper:
SMTP Email Setup — This module is used when you are integrating BigScoots Email service with your WordPress website to send authenticated transactional emails that do not land inside the Spam folder of the receiver.
With SMTP Email authentication setup, you can even sent test emails to any of your desired email id to check if the authenticated transactional emails are working properly or not.
Email Activity Logs — This module will give you a detailed email activity log including critical information like all the data and time of transactional emails sent from your website (successful or failed), receiver email address, email subject line, email content, and finally debug details to pass to us in case email not working properly.
This will create immense transparency and remove confusion. Also, when this module is enabled the same logs that you can see inside your WP Admin will be available inside the WPO portal as well.
User Activity Logs — This powerful module will track every key action inside WordPress and then log details about that action and which user performed the action, creating immense transparency and ownership of the action. The user activity logs track actions that happened over the normal WordPress admin side as well as actions performed via WP CLI.
Under Construction Mode — This module allows users to enable under-construction mode on their website to show users the "Coming Soon" or "Under Maintenance" page. This allows site admin to quickly perform any site maintenance without hindering the real user experience and relying on a third-party maintenance mode plugin that slows down the website.
By default, admins are excluded from seeing under construction mode page, but if an admin wants, they can also allow other user roles to be excluded from seeing under-construction mode pages. It also works flawlessly with the BigScoots Migrator plugin. So, you can use this module during migrating your website from other host as well.
For advanced users, this module also provides many actions and filters to modify the under-construction mode page as per your need.
WP Rocket Manager — This module allows us to disable WP Rocket page cache functionality when it is used with our BigScoots Cache plugin. This module also allows us to fine-tune many internal parameters of WP Rocket to ensure that the plugin does not use excessive server resources.
Header, Body & Footer Code — This feature allows users to add any HTML code snippet to their website head, body, and footer without relying on any third-party plugin.
What makes this feature more powerful is that it will be fully integrated with our WPO portal and once that happens, you can simply add any HTML code block to your website header, body, or footer directly from the WPO portal without the need to login to WP Admin.
Does BigScoots auto-install the plugin on websites?
BigScoots only installs the BigScoots Helper plugin, when certain BigScoots features that are dependent on the BigScoots Helper plugin are activated via the WPO portal. Here are the two cases when this happens:
Activating Page Caching — When CDN level page caching is enabled via the WPO portal, and if your website already has WP Rocket installed, then we have to install the BigScoots Helper plugin and enable the WP Rocket Manager module as mentioned above to disable WP Rocket page caching so that BigScoots Cache can work properly.
Enabling SMTP Email Authentication — When you enable SMTP email authentication for your website, at this time, we also have to install the BigScoots Helper plugin to utilize the SMTP Email Authentication module to set up authenticated transaction emails on your website.
Besides these two cases, we do not install the BigScoots Helper plugin on any of the client's websites without their consent.
Does this plugin affect my or my client's website in any way?
The plugin, itself, does not modify, disrupt, or affect the performance of the WordPress website where it is installed. It is merely a tool that will help both BigScoots and clients to more efficiently manage their websites with more transparency and efficiency.
How do I get support for this plugin?
As we stated earlier, this plugin is fully developed by BigScoots, so if you have any issues please contact our support team about it and we will look into it.