Getting Started

Requirements

Before installing WOW!, make sure your environment meets these minimum requirements:

• WordPress 5.8 or later
• WP-CLI 2.5 or later — Install WP-CLI
• PHP 7.4 or later (PHP 8.0+ recommended)
• Shell access to your WordPress server

WOW! runs entirely via WP-CLI as a package. No plugin installation or admin UI required.

Install

Install WOW! using the WP-CLI package manager:

From terminal (WP-CLI):

wp package install alo-labs/wow

From inside a WOW! session:

/plugin install alo-labs/wow

This downloads WOW! from github.com/alo-labs/wow and registers it as a WP-CLI command. The installation is global — once installed, WOW! is available for any WordPress site you manage with WP-CLI.

To verify the installation:

wp package list | grep wow

Your First Run

Navigate to your WordPress root directory and run:

/wow

On first run, WOW! walks you through a short setup before starting the pipeline:

• Site URL — the target WordPress site (e.g., https://yourdomain.com)
• WordPress admin username and password
• SSH access (optional) — enables server-side optimizations

These are stored locally in your WP-CLI config and are never transmitted or written to disk in plaintext.

WOW! will then begin the autonomous optimization pipeline:

1. Audit — Lighthouse scan and Core Web Vitals baseline
2. Plan — Planner agent builds a prioritized change plan
3. Backup — Full site backup (database + files) before any changes
4. Execute — 12 specialist agents apply changes in dependency order
5. Verify — Visual regression detection confirms nothing is broken
6. Report — Before/after metrics and a summary of all changes made

The entire pipeline typically completes in 5–15 minutes depending on site size and server speed.

To run an audit without making any changes (dry run):

/wow --dry-run

What's Next