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Total downloads: 5,167,850
Active installs: 300,000
Total reviews: 175
Average rating: 3.6
Support threads opened: 5
Support threads resolved: 1 (20%)
Available in: 35 language(s)
Contributors: 8
Last updated: 7/25/2024 (523 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 6/9/2018 (7 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.4
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.6.4
Minimum PHP version: 5.6

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 523 days ago • Support resolved 20% • 175 reviews

29/100

Is Health Check & Troubleshooting abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 523 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.4
Tested up to: 6.6.4
Requires PHP: 5.6

Ratings

105
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4
4
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Developers

Gary Pendergast (Owner)3WordPress.org (Owner)6Marius L. J. (Owner)8Peter Westwood (Owner)11WordPress.org71Peter Westwood8Gary Pendergast5Marius L. J.3

Languages

Spanish (Spain)32,360Dutch30,206Russian27,196French (France)20,849German19,853Spanish (Venezuela)17,048Italian15,565Swedish14,890Japanese14,019Spanish (Mexico)13,287Portuguese (Brazil)13,276Dutch (Formal)11,736Czech10,389Dutch (Belgium)10,363English (UK)9,973German (Formal)9,953Chinese (China)9,700Polish9,087English (Canada)8,372Spanish (Chile)8,024Ukrainian7,073Chinese (Taiwan)6,927English (Australia)6,825Norwegian (Bokmål)6,152Greek5,862Korean5,844Portuguese (Portugal)5,491Romanian5,144English (New Zealand)5,019English (South Africa)4,595Arabic4,417Catalan4,308German (Switzerland)2,934Spanish (Argentina)2,798

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Description

This plugin will perform a number of checks on your WordPress installation to detect common configuration errors and known issues, and also allows plugins and themes to add their own checks.

The debug section, which allows you to gather information about your WordPress and server configuration that you may easily share with support representatives for themes, plugins or on the official WordPress.org support forums.

Troubleshooting allows you to have a clean WordPress session, where all plugins are disabled, and a default theme is used, but only for your user until you disable it or log out.

The Tools section allows you to check that WordPress files have not been tampered with, that emails can be sent, and if your plugins are compatible with any PHP version updates in the future.

For a more extensive example of how to efficiently use the Health Check plugin, check out the WordPress.org support team handbook page about this plugin.

Feedback is welcome both through the WordPress.org forums, the GitHub project page, or on Slack in either #forums or #core-site-health.

Installation

No installation instructions available

Frequently Asked Questions

I am unable to access my site after enabling troubleshooting

If you should find your self stuck in Troubleshooting Mode for any reason, you can easily disable it by clearing your cookies.

Are you unfamiliar with how to clear your cookies? No worries, you may also close all your browser windows, or perform a computer restart and it will clear this specific cookie automatically.

The PHP compatibility says this plugin only work with PHP version X?

The plugin is made to be a support tool for as many users as possible, this means it needs code that is written for older sites as well.

Tools that check for PHP compatibility do not know how to separate this code from the real code, so it will give a false positive response.

At this time, the plugin has been tested with every version of PHP from 5.2 through 7.3, and works with all of these.

Where can I report security bugs?

The Site Health team and WordPress community take security bugs seriously. We appreciate your efforts to responsibly disclose your findings, and will make every effort to acknowledge your contributions.

To report a security issue, please visit the WordPress HackerOne program.

Review feed

Dennis Bareis
1/29/2023

Complex but Just Trouble Shoot Mode Makes it a Must Have Tool

This is a must have tool for troubleshooting interactions between plugins etc.
Arifur Rahman
5/4/2023

This plugin itself it a problematic

This plugin is problematic; it created a critical issue on my site, and it is impossible to reversed to normal. It is impossible to use this plugin, so I deleted it from the server, but still, my site is in a troubleshooting mood. This plugin broke my site.
Muntasir M. Aumio
11/5/2024

Indeed a disaster.

DO NOT use this on any of your Live and important sites
leemon
9/12/2025

Great plugin

This is an essential plugin for troubleshooting plugin and theme conflicts

Screenshots

  1. The health check screen after the automated tests have gone over the system.

    The health check screen after the automated tests have gone over the system.

  2. The debug information, with the copy and paste field expanded.

    The debug information, with the copy and paste field expanded.

  3. A selection of tools that can be ran on your site.

    A selection of tools that can be ran on your site.

  4. Troubleshooting mode enabled, showing your website Dashboard

    Troubleshooting mode enabled, showing your website Dashboard

Changelog

1.7.1 (2024-07-25)

  • Security: Prevent a potential information disclosure from the screenshot beta feature, reported independently by Jarko Piironen.
  • Security hardening: Make each screenshot delete nonce unique to that image.
  • Security hardening: Add a capability check alongside the nonce validation when toggling beta features on or off.
  • General: Updated the Tested up to tag.
  • General: Added notice about future changes to the Troubleshooting and Tools sections.
  • Added Twenty Twenty Four as a known and valid default theme.
  • Tools: Fixed a PHP warning when checking for PHP version compatibility and no data was found.
  • Tools: Fixed a PHP warning when WP_DEBUG is disabled, or nothing has been written to the logfile yet.
  • Tools: Improved the description for the robots.txt file viewer.

1.7.0 (2023-08-06)

  • General: Improved styling inconsistency between the plugin and WordPress core.
  • General: Fixed an issue with plugin translations where language strings would get mixed when using third party language plugins, or a separate profile language.
  • Troubleshooting Mode: Fixed the URL used when disabling elements and having a subdirectory installation.
  • Troubleshooting Mode: Fixed a deprecation warning when disabling troubleshooting mode on PHP version 8.3 or higher.
  • Troubleshooting Mode: Added reference on how to troubleshoot as different users when testing scenarios.
  • Tools: Fixed integration with WPTide for the PHP Compatibility checker.
  • Tools: Added a viewer that will display debug log output when enabled.
  • Tools: Added a warning to the File Integrity tester if unexpected files are mixed in with WordPress core files.
  • Tools: Added a warning if sending emails is taking longer than expected.
  • Tools: Added beta feature toggle for those who wish to test new functionality that may not be fully ready yet.
  • CLI: Fixed the CLI commands, you can now wp health-check status to your hearts content!
  • Beta feature: Added a new beta feature, making it easier for non-technical users to grab screenshots of issues on their site, and share them.
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