Every run on this site
Each example on this site is a real run of CMSHands on our WordPress test site. Here they all are: 61 runs, the request word for word, and how long each one took.
How we time them
A person types the request into the chat on Quillmoor Pottery (WordPress 7.1.3, Twenty Twenty-Four), Quillmoor Pottery (WP 7.1.3, Twenty Twenty-Four), a WordPress site we run to try every task before we write about it. Times count from the moment the request was sent. “Card after” is when the change waited for the OK. “Done after” is when the run finished, and it includes our own press of the button.
The medians below are worked out from the table when this page is built, so they move when a run is added. A repair counts the minutes a person at CMSHands took to approve it.
Median time, asking to done
| Kind of run | Runs | Median | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Changes to pages, header, footer and styles | 25 | 38 seconds | 10 seconds to 1 minute 9 seconds |
| Plugins found, installed, updated or put back | 16 | 33 seconds | 17 seconds to 2 minutes 38 seconds |
| Imports from a spreadsheet | 8 | 1 minute 9 seconds | 52 seconds to 1 minute 56 seconds |
| Questions (nothing changes) | 7 | 6 seconds | 4 seconds to 8 seconds |
| Repairs after a crash a person approved | 5 | – | – |
The runs
| Page | What was asked | Date | Card after | Done after | Undo checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude alternative inside your WP dashboard | “Audit my site: outdated plugins and who's an admin.” | – | 6 seconds | No | |
| WP Buffs alternative: small tasks, done in a chat | “Under the Contact heading, add “We reply within one working day.”” | 22 seconds | 49 seconds | Yes | |
| Best WP contact form plugins, and how to add one | “Which contact form plugin should I use? Install the one you'd pick.” | – | 5 seconds | No | |
| Is this plugin OK for my PHP version? | “Does WP Mail SMTP work with the PHP version my site runs?” | – | 6 seconds | No | |
| Check your WP site health in one question | “Give me a quick health report.” | – | 8 seconds | No | |
| Change your WP footer by asking | “Add our opening hours to the footer: Tue–Sat, 10am to 5pm.” | 7 seconds | 39 seconds | Yes | |
| Change your WP header by asking | “Add our phone number, 555-0142, to the header.” | 16 seconds | 54 seconds | Yes | |
| Edit your WP home page | “On the home page, change the big heading to “Mugs made by hand”.” | 9 seconds | 41 seconds | Yes | |
| Make changes to your WP site by asking | “On the home page, change “Free delivery over $50” to “Free delivery over $40”.” | 7 seconds | 41 seconds | Yes | |
| Switch off or remove WP plugins safely | “Remove the plugins I don't use, and tell me first which ones and why.” | 59 seconds | 1 minute 12 seconds | No | |
| Make Contact Form 7 match your site | “Make my contact form match the rest of the site.” | 20 seconds | 50 seconds | Yes | |
| Update WP plugins safely, by asking | “Update Contact Form 7 and check my site after.” | 3 seconds | 17 seconds | No | |
| Update WP plugins safely, by asking | “Update Contact Form 7 and check my site after.” | – | 55 seconds | No | |
| Write and publish a blog post in WP | “Write a short post announcing our autumn workshop from these notes, and publish it: Sat Nov 7, 10am–1pm, $55, six places, book by emailing hello@quillmoor.example.” | 7 seconds | 20 seconds | Yes | |
| Admin Columns alternative for bulk edits | “Here's a sheet of new prices for 40 products. Update them.” | 27 seconds | 1 minute 14 seconds | No | |
| MainWP alternative: no dashboard to host yourself | “Update Disable Comments and check my site after.” | 3 seconds | 17 seconds | No | |
| ManageWP alternative for a single site | “Update Loco Translate and check that my site still works.” | 6 seconds | 20 seconds | No | |
| ManageWP alternative for a single site | “Update Loco Translate and check that my site still works.” | 7 seconds | 36 seconds | No | |
| Product CSV Import Suite alternative | “Add these 300 products from my supplier's CSV.” | 26 seconds | 1 minute 56 seconds | No | |
| Product Import Export alternative, for imports | “Add the products in this file to my shop.” | 17 seconds | 53 seconds | No | |
| WP Sheet Editor alternative | “Update stock for these products from my sheet.” | 15 seconds | 52 seconds | No | |
| Stock Manager alternative: stock from a sheet | “Set stock from this list and mark the zeros out of stock.” | 18 seconds | 54 seconds | No | |
| WP All Import alternative: send the file you have | “Here's my supplier's new list. Add the new products and update the prices.” | 30 seconds | 1 minute 9 seconds | No | |
| WP Rollback alternative that checks the site after | “Flamingo broke my contact page after the update. Go back to the last version that worked.” | 19 seconds | 33 seconds | No | |
| WP Rollback alternative that checks the site after | “Flamingo broke my contact page after the update. Go back to the last version that worked.” | – | 2 minutes 38 seconds | No | |
| WP Umbrella alternative for a single site | “Which of my plugins need updates? Update Easy Table of Contents first and check the site.” | 11 seconds | 29 seconds | No | |
| Add a button to a WP page | “Add a “Book a class” button at the end of the Workshops page that links to the Contact page.” | 12 seconds | 44 seconds | Yes | |
| Add custom CSS to WP, with a preview | “Give the search box on my Shop page rounded corners, in the site's brown.” | 31 seconds | 1 minute 4 seconds | Yes | |
| Add a new page to your WP site | “Add a page called Classes: Saturday classes, 10am, $45, book by email.” | 5 seconds | 12 seconds | Yes | |
| Audit your WP site: plugins, updates, admins | “Audit my site: outdated plugins and who's an admin.” | – | 7 seconds | No | |
| Change your site title and tagline | “Change my tagline to “Handmade mugs and bowls, fired in small batches”.” | 3 seconds | 10 seconds | Yes | |
| Change text color or size in WP | “Make the first paragraph on the About page orange and a bit bigger.” | 14 seconds | 42 seconds | Yes | |
| Change the copyright line in your footer | “Change the copyright line in my footer to © 2026 Quillmoor Pottery.” | 5 seconds | 30 seconds | Yes | |
| Change a page title in WP | “Rename the “Shop” page to “Our pottery”.” | 3 seconds | 11 seconds | Yes | |
| Make your phone number and email clickable | “Make our phone number and email in the footer clickable.” | 10 seconds | 38 seconds | Yes | |
| Create a blog page in WP | “Make a Blog page that lists our latest posts, using the posts list block.” | 17 seconds | 30 seconds | Yes | |
| Edit the words on a WP page | “On the About page, change “since 2019” to “since 2018”.” | 6 seconds | 38 seconds | Yes | |
| Find the right WP plugin for the job | “Which popup plugin should I use for a newsletter sign-up?” | – | 4 seconds | No | |
| Find and replace text across WP pages | “We moved to Tue–Sat. Change “Mon–Fri” everywhere it appears.” | 37 seconds | 1 minute 9 seconds | Yes | |
| Hide the title on a WP page | “Hide the title on the Contact page.” | 14 seconds | 23 seconds | Yes | |
| Add products to your store from a spreadsheet | “Add these to my shop in a new category, Autumn.” | 33 seconds | 1 minute 8 seconds | Yes | |
| Install a WP plugin by asking | “I need a simple booking calendar. Find a good plugin and install it.” | 6 seconds | – | Yes | |
| Which products are out of stock? | “Which of my products are out of stock? List them with their prices.” | – | 8 seconds | No | |
| Remove “Powered by WordPress” from your footer | “Take “Designed with WordPress” out of my footer and put our name there.” | 6 seconds | 37 seconds | Yes | |
| Remove or hide the WP footer | “Take everything out of the footer so nothing shows at the bottom of my pages.” | 7 seconds | 38 seconds | Yes | |
| Roll back a WP plugin to the version that worked | “Duplicate Page stopped working after the update. Go back to the version that worked.” | 7 seconds | 1 minute 28 seconds | No | |
| WP care plans, and a free daily check | “Update Redirection and check my site after.” | 5 seconds | 19 seconds | No | |
| WP care plans, and a free daily check | “Update Redirection and check my site after.” | – | 48 seconds | No | |
| WP site maintenance, done by asking | “Update Safe SVG and check my site after.” | 6 seconds | 20 seconds | No | |
| WP site maintenance, done by asking | “Update Safe SVG and check my site after.” | – | 32 seconds | No | |
| Know when your WP site goes down | No message: a plugin we broke on purpose | 2 minutes 35 seconds | – | No | |
| Run your WP site from a chat in your dashboard | “Update Regenerate Thumbnails and check my site after.” | 5 seconds | 19 seconds | No | |
| Run your WP site from a chat in your dashboard | “Update Regenerate Thumbnails and check my site after.” | – | 33 seconds | No | |
| WP MCP, or an AI agent already in your dashboard | “Change our footer to say “© 2026 Quillmoor Pottery. Handmade in small batches.”” | 6 seconds | 33 seconds | Yes | |
| Create a meet-the-team page in WP | “Add a Meet the team page: Nora Bennett throws every mug and runs the studio; Sam Hale does the glazes and fires the kiln. One short line for each.” | 11 seconds | 18 seconds | Yes | |
| Create a WP landing page by asking | “Make a landing page called Autumn Workshop: a big heading, the Saturday class, $45, and a Book now button to Contact.” | 26 seconds | 34 seconds | Yes | |
| Import a CSV into WP: posts, pages, products | “Make a page for each class in this sheet.” | 27 seconds | 1 minute 20 seconds | Yes | |
| “HTTP ERROR 500” | No message: a plugin we broke on purpose | 3 minutes 57 seconds | – | No | |
| “Error establishing a database connection” | No message: a plugin we broke on purpose | 4 minutes 35 seconds | – | No | |
| “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” | No message: a plugin we broke on purpose | 13 minutes 27 seconds | – | No | |
| “yoursite.com redirected you too many times.” | No message: a plugin we broke on purpose | 4 minutes 18 seconds | – | No |
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