Dashboard & Site Check

Dashboard Tab

• Before Demo Maker is on, the Dashboard offers Make this site a live demo, which turns the safety switches on.
• Shows whether the demo is live, demo logins and Buy now clicks today, the last and next reset, the snapshot and recent activity.
• Go live: takes the snapshot and starts resets, logins and the demo bar. Only offered when nothing in Site check has failed.
• Reset now and Take a new snapshot.
• Stop the demo: resets, demo logins and the demo bar go off. The safety switches stay on.
• Turning Demo Maker off stops the demo, ends every sandbox and turns the safety switches off.
• The Server cron address and the version check address.

WordPress Dashboard Widgets

Administrators see a Demo Maker widget on the WordPress Dashboard with the demo's status, and a Demo Maker: demos widget when there are several demos. Demo logins don't see them.

Site Check Tab

What a snapshot and a reset need from this server. Go live is only possible when nothing has failed. It checks, among other things:

• that wp-content/yetidm-snapshot can be written;
• that a snapshot or reset can run for as long as it needs;
• WP-Cron, and whether DISABLE_WP_CRON is set;
• WooCommerce "Coming soon" mode, which would show visitors a holding page;
• database views, which are not copied.