Documentation
How Darwin AI and Side Kick work.
Setting up, every setting and what it does, and the details behind the safety features. Written from the plugins themselves.
Darwin AI
Written for Darwin AI 2.87.3
- Getting started with Darwin AIWhat Darwin AI needs, how to install it, where to find it in wp-admin and what to do first.
- The admin chatHow to set up Darwin AI's chat in wp-admin, what it can and cannot do, and how spending limits work.
- Passes (handoffs) and access levelsHow to give an AI agent a time-limited, permission-limited pass to your site, and how to take it back.
- Connect an agentHow to connect Claude Code, Codex or any MCP client to a site running Darwin AI, with the Darwin client or directly.
- History and accessWhat Darwin AI records about every action, how to search it, and how to control which administrators can use Darwin AI.
- Safety netsThe checks, backups and automatic rollbacks Darwin AI uses so a change can be previewed first and undone afterwards.
- Tools referenceEvery tool Darwin AI offers, grouped by family, with its modes, the level it needs and what it is for.
- Privacy, licence and updatesExactly what Darwin AI sends, where it goes and when, what the licence key does, how updates are verified, and what is stored on your site.
Side Kick
Written for Side Kick 2.18.4
- Getting started with Side KickWhat you need to run Darwin Side Kick, how to install it, where to find it in WordPress and what happens when you deactivate or delete it.
- Dashboard and modulesHow the Side Kick Dashboard lists your modules, and how to switch them on and off and keep them up to date.
- SettingsEvery setting on Side Kick's General and Login & passwords pages, what each one does, its default and what to watch out for.
- Duplicating pages and postsHow Side Kick's Duplicate link copies a page or post as a draft, what it copies, what it leaves behind and how it handles Elementor, WooCommerce, ACF and Rank Math.
- Modules
- Admin StyleHow to switch on and use Admin Style's three features: the admin menu manager, the collapsible admin menu and grouped admin notices.
- Omni LoggerHow Omni Logger records activity on your site, how to read and filter the log, and exactly which events it records.
- User Profile ExtendedWhat User Profile Extended changes on the WordPress user profile screen, including multiple roles, profile pictures, its settings and the plugins it tidies up.