Build a release checklist that matches what changed

What is changing in this release?

Pick every category that applies. Your choices remain on this device; no website, account or forms are contacted by this planning tool.

How to turn the generated list into a release gate

First select a genuine sample: a service landing page with qualified enquiries, a blog post, an archive and your conversion route. Save their existing URLs and final HTML. After the staged release, run the same checks on the same pages. Record the exact difference, owner and whether a rollback is needed. Don't approve a green dashboard merely because plugins installed without errors.

SEO output can shift when a theme, extension or content model changes. Search Console can show later indexation outcomes, but the immediate release test should verify the concrete headers, canonicals and user paths that the deployment actually changed. The WordPress SEO release regression guide gives a worked example and a downloadable worksheet.

Official technical background: WordPress Site Health documentation. Site Health is a useful configuration input, not a replacement for these front-end SEO acceptance tests.