Adds a beating heart to your toolbar
As of April 2026, WP Heart Throb is a WordPress beat plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Actively maintained — updated within the last month.
Use this plugin to monitor the heart-rate of your WordPress installation.
WordPress uses an API called “Heartbeat” to monitor certain conditions and report to the user if something went wrong.
If your login cookie expires while you’re writing a post, for example, Heartbeat will open a modal window and allow you to log in again.
This plugin adds a small menu item to the WordPress toolbar that does the following things:
Future versions of this plugin could add a drop-down to this menu with more information.
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.8.28 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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