Asteris for WordPress — Roadmap
The roadmap is public on purpose. Items that are committed are marked committed. Items that are maybe are marked maybe. Items that have been deprioritised stay listed with a note so you don’t have to guess whether we forgot.
Founder customers have direct say on the v1.x roadmap. If you want to vote on what ships next, the Founder 500 launch is where that happens.
Shipped in v1.0
All 11 v1.0 modules are built and in pre-launch QA:
- Security + Login + 2FA
- SEO + AI Suite (flagship)
- Performance (post-research v2 spec)
- Forms
- SMTP + Email Logs
- Activity Log + Site Health (shared with Asteris for WooCommerce)
- Analytics + Pixels
- Image Optimisation
- Backups + Migration
- Code Snippets
- Accessibility scanner
See /modules for what each one ships.
Committed for v1.1 (post-launch, ordered by priority)
- Dedicated Slack channel for Agency-tier customers. Engineering channel with @-mention SLA. (Memory locked.)
- One-click importers from RankMath, AIOSEO, SEOPress (Yoast importer shipped in v1.0). Carry over titles, descriptions, schema settings, redirects.
- White-label module (Agency-only). Lets agencies rebrand the plugin admin for their clients.
- Multisite support. Currently not in v1.0. Will come with proper network-admin settings, per-site licence activation, and aggregate Site Health.
- More forms integrations. v1.0 ships Mailchimp / ConvertKit / MailerLite / Slack / Zapier. v1.1 adds HubSpot, ActiveCampaign, and Brevo.
- More backup destinations. v1.0 ships S3/B2/R2/Wasabi/SFTP/local. v1.1 adds Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive.
Under consideration (not committed)
Items here might ship in v1.x or might not. Founder votes break ties.
- Maintenance mode / coming soon module — there are decent free plugins for this; not sure we’d add value.
- Donations / one-time payments — Stripe button + receipt + thank-you flow. Could fit; not core to most sites.
- Custom fields module — deferred past Feb 2027 per memory. ACF and Meta Box cover this well.
- Real User Monitoring — Core Web Vitals field data. Performance module already has a basic CWV monitor; an RUM-level expansion is being considered.
- A11y audit cloud reporting — push audit JSON to a hosted dashboard for agencies tracking multiple sites.
- Two-way sync of SEO data to Search Console — surface impressions/clicks/CTR inside the SEO module.
Deliberately out of scope
Things we’ve actively decided not to do (or not in v1.x):
- Page builder of our own. Elementor, Bricks, Beaver Builder, Divi all do this; we integrate, we don’t compete.
- LMS module. LearnDash et al. own this space.
- Membership module. PMP, MemberPress, RCP own this space.
- Translation module. WPML and Polylang own this space.
- Hosting / managed-WP service. We’re a plugin, not a host.
See what Asteris doesn’t do for the full scope-limits page.
Cadence
We ship every Friday during launch. Even if a release is small, there’s a release. Updates land via the WordPress.org plugin updater (Free) and the plugin’s built-in updater (paid licences).
The changelog is the source of truth for what has shipped.
How to influence the roadmap
- Founders — feedback gets triaged ahead of general feedback. Email
[email protected]. - Paid customers — feature requests via
[email protected]. - Free / WordPress.org users — feature requests via the GitHub issue tracker (link in the plugin admin).
Every feature request gets a reply explaining which bucket it landed in: committed, under consideration, or out of scope (with a reason).