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Health Check & Troubleshooting

Health Check identifies common problems, and helps you troubleshoot plugin and theme conflicts.

By WordPress.org·Health Check·Free
3.6(179 reviews)
·300K+ active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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As of April 2026, Health Check & Troubleshooting is a WordPress health check plugin with 300K+ active installations and a 3.6/5 rating from 179 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.3M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 9% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Health Endpoint.

3.6/5179 reviews
300K+active installs
0%resolved
8 yearssince 2018

Overview

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 mor…

Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

3.6179 reviews
5 ★
107
4 ★
7
3 ★
4
2 ★
5
1 ★
56

Recent Reviews

It is Very helpful tool for developers
by whizPlugins·1 month ago

It is Very helpful tool for developers

  • This topic was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by whizPlugins.
  • This topic was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by whizPlugins.
Service Recommended
by deynadc9·2 months ago

The plugin is very good, I’m happy with it and I recommend it.

Absolute Life saver on my agency sub sites..
by akehsanz·2 months ago

I’ve been facing few unresolved problems — that was easily identified by this plugin.. really appreciate the efforts from dev team… thanks

good
by carrie06·3 months ago

good app!

good
by susan54·5 months ago

A must-have plugin for diagnosing site issues and resolving conflicts quickly. Simple, effective, and reliable.

Download Trends

Today: 567Yesterday: 688This week: 4KPeriod total: 382K

Compatibility

WordPress4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5
PHP5.6+ required

Version Adoption

v1.7
90.4%
v1.4
5.4%
Other
4.2%

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

…and 4 more changes

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Gary PendergastGary PendergastPeter WestwoodPeter WestwoodMarius L. J.Marius L. J.WordPress.orgWordPress.org
Plugin Info
Version
1.7.1
Last Updated
Jul 25, 2024
WP Requires
4.4+
Tested Up To
6.6.5
PHP Requires
5.6+
Active Installs
300K+
Downloads
5.3M+
Added
Jun 9, 2018
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Community

Tags

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Developer

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WordPress.org
17 plugins11.5M+ total installs
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