Better Sydney Toolbox
v0.9 · Pre-order · 30-day guarantee
A WordPress bundle for the rest of us

Stop paying retainers to re-fix Sydney every update.

One stable, all-in-one plugin that replaces five fragile ones — and your monthly freelancer bill.

Better Sydney Toolbox is a single WordPress plugin built for Mike and the freelance WordPress developers who maintain a stack of client sites. Starter sites that survive updates, a header/footer builder with per-page rules, Elementor and WooCommerce extras, and a maintenance mode with health checks and backups — bundled together so you stop reinstalling Siteorigin after every WP release.

Pre-order Better Sydney Toolbox $149 / year · cancel anytime · 30-day refund

The pain you already know.

Why this plugin exists

PAIN / 01

Imports break the day you update.

Starter sites that worked on Monday are a blank canvas after a WordPress or plugin update, with widgets and layout gone. You re-add everything by hand, or bill the client for it.

PAIN / 02

Imports ship incomplete.

Demo images missing, sections half-rendered, blocks referencing plugins you didn't install. The "ten minute setup" turns into a half-day of cleanup.

PAIN / 03

$50–$500/month to fix trivial changes.

SMB owners pay a freelancer retainer just to nudge a header or patch a plugin conflict. Costs balloon, and the work is still unfinished.

What you get instead.

Three jobs, one plugin

Feature 01

stable Starter-site import that survives updates.

The import engine writes a versioned, content-isolated manifest so a WordPress, Elementor, or WooCommerce update can't silently wipe your layout. Tested against the exact failure modes that break Sydney and Astra today.

Feature 02

safe Built-in maintenance mode with health checks and backups.

Run weekly health checks on WP core, themes, and plugins, snapshot before each update, and roll back automatically if something breaks — no more retainer call to fix a white screen of death.

Feature 03

free Header/footer builder with per-page conditional logic.

Show different headers and footers per template, post type, or role — and ship it without paying for an Astra or GeneratePress tier upgrade just to get conditional display.

“I cancelled the retainer the week I installed it. Three sites, zero breakages, one update cycle.”
— Beta tester, freelance WP developer, 14 client sites

Lock in the pre-order price.

One-time annual · no per-site counting

Pre-order now to keep the $149 launch price. When it ships to general availability the price moves to $249/year, and existing pre-orders keep their rate.

Pre-order Better Sydney Toolbox

$149/year · 30-day money-back guarantee · cancel any time