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title: "Getting started — Egenverk Lagom"
description: "Requirements, installation and first steps in Egenverk Lagom: where to find it, what the tabs hold and how to switch on one module at a time."
canonical: https://egenverk.se/en/plugins/lagom/docs/getting-started
lang: en
updated: 2026-10-14
alternate: https://egenverk.se/plugins/lagom/docs/kom-igang.md
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# Getting started

Egenverk Lagom · v0.33.2 · WordPress 6.5+, PHP 7.4+ · Updated 2026-10-14

Egenverk Lagom keeps WordPress and WooCommerce just right: a lighter dashboard, tidy scheduler tables, a watch on runaway requests and a leaner database. Lagom is made of eight modules that you switch on one at a time, and every one ships off. Anything that removes something counts first and shows you the number, and every run lands in a log.

## Requirements

- WordPress 6.5 or later
- PHP 7.4 or later
- WooCommerce is optional. Figures for shop sessions and scheduler jobs appear when WooCommerce is active, and order search works on WooCommerce orders.
- The scheduler tables are cleaned through Action Scheduler, which ships with WooCommerce.

## Install

1. Get the plugin: [contact us](mailto:hello@egenverk.se).
2. Upload the zip file under **Plugins → Add New**, or put the `egenverk-lagom` folder in `wp-content/plugins/`.
3. Activate Egenverk Lagom under **Plugins**.

## Find Lagom

Lagom has its own item in the admin menu, **Lagom**, right after **Settings**. The address is `admin.php?page=egenverk-lagom`, and the **Settings** link under Lagom on the Plugins page leads there. Older addresses under Tools lead there too. The page is open to administrators only.

The page has four tabs:

| Tab | Holds |
| --- | --- |
| **Overview** | Health figures, module states and recent activity |
| **Performance** | Dashboard widgets, Request watch, and Heartbeat, transients and sessions |
| **Order search** | Fast order search |
| **Appearance** | The wp-admin skin |

### The Advanced tab

Tools that need technical judgement sit on a fifth tab, **Advanced**, which each administrator turns on for themselves: Scheduler tables, Database, CSS and JS per page with plugin rules, and Lagom's own order search index. A wrong choice there can slow the shop down or break it.

Turn the tab on with the **Show advanced tools** button at the bottom of Lagom's page, or with the **Show advanced tools** box under the Lagom heading on your profile. **Hide advanced tools** hides it again.

## The overview

Under **Right now**, **Overview** shows six figures:

| Figure | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| **Revisions** | Old versions of posts and pages |
| **Expired transients** | Expired transients left behind in the options table |
| **Space** | The size of the tables with this site's prefix |
| **Autoloaded options** | What is read on every request. Marked when it passes the Database module's warning level, 800 KB by default. |
| **Finished scheduler jobs** | Finished, canceled and failed Action Scheduler jobs. Marked above 50,000. |
| **Shop sessions** | Rows in WooCommerce's sessions table |

The figures are counted without changing anything and kept for ten minutes. The **Measured … ago · measure again** button counts them again at once.

Under **Modules** each module is listed with its state, **On** or **Off**, a line on what it does and a link to its **Settings**. **Recent activity** shows the eight latest things Lagom removed or changed.

## How settings are saved

- Tabs switch without reloading the page. The address follows, so a tab can be bookmarked and the back button works.
- A module switch saves at once and shows **On** or **Off** beside it.
- When you change other fields, a save bar appears with **Undo changes** and **Save settings**. If you leave the tab with unsaved changes, Lagom asks first.
- Each tab saves only its own modules. The others keep their values.
- Results, refusals and errors are shown as notifications in the corner.

## First step

1. Open **Overview** and see what the figures say about your site.
2. Pick the module that solves your biggest problem and read about it under [Modules](modules) or [CSS and JS](css-and-js).
3. Switch the module on. Scheduler tables and Heartbeat, transients and sessions can only be switched on after **Show what would be removed** has counted within the last ten minutes.
4. Watch the log on the module's card and **Recent activity** for the first few days before you switch on the next module.

## Resources

- [Product page](https://egenverk.se/en/plugins/lagom)
- [Changelog](https://egenverk.se/en/plugins/lagom/changelog)
- [Docs](https://egenverk.se/en/plugins/lagom/docs)
- Next: [Modules](https://egenverk.se/en/plugins/lagom/docs/modules)