There's no rival plugin here — the real competitor is the way most agencies quote a takeover today: a quick look, a standard care plan and crossed fingers. Here's the honest breakdown against that.
Quoting blind means you find the liabilities after you've committed, on the client's clock, doing remediation you never priced. WP Takeover Scanner (this site) reads the site before you send the quote — versions, plugins, conflicts, access, custom code, cron, database, updates, security, exposure and complexity — and hands you a verdict, a price band and a report. Surprise later versus evidence now.
| Feature | WP Takeover Scanner | Quoting blind |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a risk picture | ✓ Seconds | ✗ Weeks (after you've committed) |
| Abandoned & untested plugins | ✓ Deep scan vs wordpress.org | ✗ Found the hard way |
| Backup debris & exposed .git / logs | ✓ Web-root sweep | ✗ Usually missed |
| End-of-life PHP & core lag | ✓ Scored | ◐ If you thought to check |
| Excessive admins & access risk | ✓ Counted & flagged | ✗ |
| Custom code you\'ll have to maintain | ✓ mu-plugins, bespoke theme, big functions.php | ◐ Discovered later |
| A number to quote | ✓ Verdict → editable price band | ◐ Your standard rate |
| Consistent across the team | ✓ Same assessment every time | ✗ Author-dependent |
| Client-ready evidence | ✓ Branded PDF for the proposal | ✗ |
| Full manual code & security audit | ◐ Flags risk, budgets for it | ✗ |
| Cost | From $49/yr · $299 lifetime | Free — minus the unpriced remediation |
The site is tiny, you built it yourself, and there's nothing you don't already know about it. For that, a scan tells you what you already know.
You take on sites you didn't build, you've been burned by hidden remediation before, and you want a defensible price and a report the client will accept — before you commit. Run it on every takeover as step one, the way you'd survey a house before you buy it. That's us.
Assessment reflects what the site reports about itself at scan time; a serious takeover should still include a manual code review and a security audit.