Baxtersweb Guide Dots – Admin Guidance & Client Handover

Baxtersweb Guide Dots adds contextual guidance directly inside the WordPress admin. Place interactive guide dots beside the settings, fields and workflows people actually use, so instructions stay connected to the screen they explain. It is built for client handovers, editor training, internal documentation and website-specific reminders. Instead of sending someone back to a PDF, email or separate manual, Guide Dots lets them open the guidance while they are working. Use it to explain a custom field, document an unusual setting, walk a client through an editing process, or leave useful implementation notes for future maintenance. Contextual guidance where it is needed A guide dot is a visual marker placed on a WordPress admin screen. Selecting the dot opens the guidance attached to that location. Multiple guides can live on the same screen. The guide count gives users a quick way to see what guidance is available, while Previous and Next controls make it easy to move through a sequence. Organise guidance by audience Create separate audiences for different users or purposes, such as Clients, Editors or Developers. Each audience has its own identifying colour, making different types of guidance easy to recognise. Guide ordering can be managed per audience, so a collection of individual notes can also become a structured walkthrough. Share guided tours Guided Tours let you step through the ordered guides for a selected audience or copy a view-only tour link to share with someone else. The Guide Manager shows the tour sequence as a clean numbered list, making it easy to check what someone will see and in which order. Create and manage guides without leaving the admin Authorised users can create, edit, reposition and remove guides directly inside WordPress. Guide placement appears immediately while it is saved, helping the interaction remain responsive even on slower hosting. The Guide Manager provides filtering, bulk actions, audience-specific drag-to-reorder controls and a central view of existing guidance. Quick Intro for first-time setup A replayable Quick Intro walks new users through creating their first guide, opening it, editing it, repositioning it and using Guided Tours. Tutorial progress is stored per user, so each administrator can run it independently. Keep website handovers useful Traditional handover documents can become difficult to follow as a website changes. Guide Dots keeps screen-specific instructions inside the website itself, where they remain easier to find and maintain. It works particularly well for:

• Client website handovers.
• Custom WordPress builds.
• Content management instructions.
• Internal website documentation.
• Technical guidance for developers.
• Training new editors or administrators.
• Explaining custom fields and plugin settings.
• Recording important website-specific processes.

Key features

• Place contextual guide dots on WordPress admin screens.
• Add clear guidance to each dot.
• Create separate audiences with identifying colours.
• Add multiple guides to the same admin screen.
• Open the current screen's guide list from the guide count.
• Navigate guides using Previous and Next controls.
• Reorder guides for a selected audience.
• Start or share ordered Guided Tours.
• Open shared tours in view-only mode.
• Edit and reposition existing guide dots.
• Hide or show guides from the WordPress admin bar.
• Filter and manage guides from one organised admin area.
• Use the replayable Quick Intro for onboarding.
• Keep documentation attached to the website it describes.
• Designed specifically for the WordPress admin area.

Guide Dots is deliberately focused. It is not a learning management system, frontend product-tour builder or general documentation platform. Its purpose is persistent, contextual guidance for the WordPress admin.

1. Install the plugin through the WordPress Plugins screen.
2. Activate Baxtersweb Guide Dots.
3. Visit the WordPress admin screen where you want to add guidance.
4. Select Add Guide, enter the guidance and choose an audience.
5. Double-click the appropriate position to place the dot.
6. Use Guided Tours in the Guide Manager to test or share the ordered guidance.

For additional instructions, visit the Guide Dots documentation.

1.0.2

• Add a replayable Quick Intro for creating, opening, editing and repositioning Guide Dots.
• Add tutorial guidance for Guided Tours and audience-specific tour ordering.
• Add high-contrast blue contextual guidance callouts with directional pointers and a quieter Skip tutorial action.
• Keep tutorial progress per user so each administrator can run the Quick Intro independently.
• Make the guide count independently clickable so existing guides can be opened while editing mode is active.
• Improve Guided Tours with a clean numbered list of guides for the selected audience.
• Improve guide placement responsiveness by showing the dot immediately while it is saved.
• Refresh the Guide Manager with a wider layout, cleaner spacing, modernised tables and consistent controls.
• Refine guide popups and the Add/Edit Guide form for clearer spacing, hierarchy and actions.
• Improve button, dropdown, notice and destructive-action styling throughout the admin interface.
• Improve the empty Guide Manager state and add direct Quick Intro access from the Plugins screen and Guide Manager.
• Confirm compatibility with WordPress 7.1 RC1 and update the Tested up to value to 7.1.

1.0.1

• Add manual guide ordering when a single audience is filtered in the Guide Manager.
• Add an explicit Save order action and persistent tour order.
• Add native WordPress bulk deletion for selected guides.
• Remember the last audience selected by each guide creator.
• Open guided-tour links in view-only mode while keeping normal guide management available to authorised users.
• Add a per-user Hide Guides toggle to the WordPress admin bar.
• Remove the global Display mode setting from the Guide Manager.
• Scroll the admin page to bring the active guide into view during tours and guide browsing.
• Improve popup positioning near the top, bottom, left and right edges of the viewport.
• Fix guide-list items not opening their selected guide.
• Fix tours beginning on the wrong guide.
• Prevent repeated double-clicks from creating duplicate copies of the same guide.
• Improve placement feedback while a guide is being pinned.
• Update the documentation link to the new Guide Dots documentation.

1.0.0

• Initial release.
• Add contextual guide dots to WordPress admin screens.
• Create and manage multiple guide audiences.
• Assign identifying colours to audiences.
• Add multiple guides to the same admin screen.
• Navigate between guides using Previous and Next controls.
• View a summary of guides available on the current screen.
• Open shared guided tours in view-only mode.
• Edit, reposition and remove existing guides.
• Hide guide dots without deleting their guidance.
• Manage guides from a central admin interface.