What Asteris for WordPress doesn’t do

This page exists because “what we don’t build” matters more than “what we do build.” If 80% of your need is in this list, Asteris isn’t the right plugin for you. I’d rather you know that before you buy.

We don’t do hosting

Kinsta, WP Engine, SiteGround, Cloudways, and the other managed-WP hosts do that. Asteris assumes you have hosting already. The Performance module is designed to work with a real cache layer (and around the optimisations your host already applies) — not replace your host.

We don’t do page-building

Elementor, Bricks, Beaver Builder, Divi, Oxygen, Cwicly all do page-building. Asteris ships first-class integrations with the four major builders (docked SEO sidebars, Forms blocks, performance-aware asset handling) but does not include a builder of its own. If you don’t have a builder yet and want one, pick one of those.

We don’t do membership / paywalls

Paid Memberships Pro, MemberPress, Restrict Content Pro, WishList Member all do membership. Asteris co-exists with all of them but doesn’t include membership features.

We don’t do learning management (LMS)

LearnDash, LifterLMS, Tutor LMS, Sensei, MasterStudy all do LMS. Asteris doesn’t.

We don’t do ecommerce

This is the big one. WooCommerce does ecommerce. If you want one suite that covers SEO + product filtering + variation swatches + PDF invoices + the rest of the WooCommerce store-stack pain, that’s the sister product: Asteris for WooCommerce. Same team. Same engineering bar. You can run both side-by-side if you have both a content layer and a store layer — see /also-run-woocommerce for how the two products interact.

We don’t do email marketing or newsletter management

Klaviyo, MailerLite, Mailchimp, ConvertKit, Brevo all do email marketing. Asteris’s SMTP module is transactional — it makes wp_mail() reliable for password resets, form notifications, and comment notifications. It is not a campaign builder, list manager, or segmentation engine.

We don’t do translation / multilingual

WPML and Polylang both do this well. Asteris co-exists with both; we don’t try to do it ourselves.

We don’t do dedicated form builders beyond v1.0 scope

Our Forms module ships 20 field types, 5 integrations, and the core lifecycle most contact forms need. If you need a 200-field-type, drag-and-drop, conditional-logic-on-everything, payment-gateway-integrated form platform — Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms Pro, and WPForms Pro all do more than our v1.0 module. We’ll close that gap over the roadmap; we don’t pretend the v1.0 is parity.

We don’t do dedicated SEO tools beyond what’s in the module

Our SEO + AI module covers what 80% of sites actually need: titles, descriptions, schema, sitemaps, internal-link suggestions, AI-assisted content, AI-bot management, llms.txt, IndexNow. If you need agency-level on-page SEO tooling at the depth Yoast Premium offers in 2026 (full-feature content-strategy module, premium redirects manager with bulk operations, etc.) we’re closing those gaps as we go but we are not pretending to be Yoast Premium at v1.0.

We don’t do Multisite (at v1.0)

It might come later. It isn’t in v1.0. If you need WP Multisite, this plugin isn’t ready for you yet.

We don’t do 24/7 support

We’re a small team in Sydney. Support runs on Sydney hours (AEST/AEDT). The SLA matrix is:

We try to beat the SLA. We don’t promise 24/7 because we cannot honestly deliver 24/7.

We don’t sell add-ons

Every paid tier includes every paid module. There’s no “buy the SEO add-on for $49 more”. There’s no “Pro Plus” tier. There’s no marketplace of “verified extensions”. One plugin, three pricing tiers (Starter, Pro, Agency), and that’s the whole product surface.

We don’t sell your data

We collect what’s needed to run the licence + support + billing — nothing more. The plugin does not phone home with usage stats, behaviour metrics, or content. The only outbound call is the licence-check ping. No analytics, no telemetry, no opt-out-required tracking. Privacy details on /privacy.

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