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Installation & requirements

Requirements#

  • WordPress 6.0 or later
  • PHP 8.2 or later
  • No build step: the plugin doesn't need Composer or Node on your server, it ships ready to run

Installing the plugin#

  1. Upload the ultivo folder to /wp-content/plugins/.
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu.

On first activation, the setup wizard opens automatically. See Setup wizard for what it asks and why.

Where to find things in the admin#

Everything lives under the single Ultivo Toolkit menu item in the admin sidebar:

  • Dashboard: what's active, and shortcuts to the things you add most
  • Custom Fields: build and manage field groups
  • Forms: build front-end forms from the same field builder
  • Snippets (Pro): PHP, CSS, JavaScript and HTML snippets, with conditions and revisions. Not present in the free version
  • Settings: turn features on and off, and reset configuration
  • Enhancements: the utility modules
  • SEO: titles, descriptions, Open Graph and the sitemap
  • Tools: a tab inside Custom Fields, for export/import and ACF migration

Sections that have sub-pages show them in a second row of tabs: Custom Fields has Field Groups, Post Types, Taxonomies, Options Pages and Tools; Forms has Entries, Integrations and SMTP; Enhancements shows a tab for every module that has its own screen.

Switching things on and off#

Field groups, forms, post types, taxonomies and options pages each have an active state: an inactive one keeps its definition but stops doing anything on the site. All five list screens show that state the same way: a Status column next to the title, with a switch you flip straight from the list. The change saves as you click it; there is nothing to confirm.

The same switch, labeled Active, sits next to the Update button on the edit screen, so you can switch something off while you are working on it without going back to the list. A brand new item starts active.

Because the column already says which state each row is in, those screens drop the things that repeated it: the Published and Draft links above the list, the Draft label WordPress prints after a title, and the month filter. All and Trash stay, but only once something is actually in the trash, because a lone "All (5)" above five rows is not navigation. Items in the trash show a dash instead of a switch: the way back is Restore, which does the cleaning up that flipping a switch would skip.

Quick Edit is gone from those five screens too. It offers statuses these items have no meaning for (Scheduled, Pending Review, Password protected), and picking one would take a form off your site without saying so.

Every Ultivo Toolkit screen carries the same bar at the very top: the product name on the left, and on the right Documentation, Support and (on the free version) Upgrade to Pro. Those never change as you move around; the tabs below them show where you are.

At the bottom of each of those screens the footer repeats Documentation, Support and Feedback, and lists the versions you're running: WordPress, PHP and Ultivo Toolkit. The copy button next to that line puts it on your clipboard. Paste it into a support message and the first three questions are already answered.

Updating#

Ultivo Toolkit updates through the standard WordPress plugin updater, no separate process. Check /changelog for what changed in each release before updating a production site.

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