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Miles can make powerful changes to WordPress sites. Use it in a Sandbox, Staging, or Development environment where maintained backups let you restore the site if needed.

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Locked vs unlocked

The button appears near the chat input for WordPress administrators and is labelled Miles is locked or Miles is unlocked.

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Choose a safe environment

Use Miles only in one of these environments:
  • Sandbox for disposable experiments and early exploration.
  • Staging for a copy of a site where you can review realistic content and behavior.
  • Development for local or team development work.
Keep a recent backup that includes the database, uploads, theme files, plugins, and settings. If you cannot restore the environment, stop and prepare a backup before making broad changes.

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Changes that may need approval

When Miles is locked, actions like these can require approval:
  • publishing or editing pages or posts
  • changing WordPress settings
  • updating plugins or themes
  • deleting content
  • applying changes that publish or remove content
Unknown types of WordPress write are treated as protected instead of assumed safe. If approval is needed, Miles shows an approval card with the requested changes. You can approve or deny the change. For more detail, see Approval cards and destructive changes.

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What locked mode does and does not do

Locked mode helps prevent accidental changes, but it does not replace human review.

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Unlocking Miles

Unlocking Miles means changes can happen immediately. The plugin requires an explicit confirmation before unlocking. Only unlock Miles if you have backups, understand the risk, and can restore the site if something breaks. Unlock only for scoped work in a Sandbox, Staging, or Development environment where you understand the effect and can restore the site.

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Draft-first behavior

On protected sites, Miles may save new pages as drafts. Draft pages remain unpublished until you choose to publish them. Miles may also refuse to redesign an existing page in place while protection is on. That protects pages visitors may already see. Use a draft page for the redesign, review it, then decide how to publish.

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Your responsibility

Miles uses AI and automated actions. You are responsible for reviewing outputs and maintaining backups. Review important content before publishing, especially regulated claims, pricing, legal language, medical information, financial information, or anything that could affect customers. Read Backups and reviewing AI output before you begin.