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WP Tuner

Easily, powerfully, discover why your blog or plugin is slow or cranky. Comprehensive time and database access analyzer. WPmu. multi-lingual.

By MrPeteH·Slow·Free
1.5(8 reviews)
·10 active installs·Updated 16 years ago
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As of April 2026, WP Tuner is a WordPress slow plugin with 10 active installations and a 1.5/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 47K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.0.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Faster Appearance – Menus.

1.5/58 reviews
10active installs
47K+total downloads
18 yearssince 2008

Overview

The (mu-compatible) WP Tuner plugin for WordPress is a powerful and easy to use way to answer many hard questions about why your blog is slow or cranky. What’s causing the slowdown? Is it a plugin? Is it your host?

Used with a bit of common sense, this powerful plugin will help blog administrators as well as software developers improve their WordPress blog performance.

Perfect for WordPress site administrators, plugin and theme designers, developers

Fully translatable.

Advanced Use

Here are more advanced ways to make use of WP Tuner. Please share your questions and/or stories examples to share with others!

1) Hook any WordPress action

In wptuner.php, you will find a default set of action hooks. You can add as many hooks as you like for other actions. They look like this (just change…

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Ratings & Reviews

1.58 reviews
5 ★
1
4 ★
0
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
7

Compatibility

WordPress2.0.6+ requiredTested up to 2.8.4
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Contributors

Mr PeteMr Pete
Plugin Info
Version
0.9.6
Last Updated
Aug 24, 2009
WP Requires
2.0.6+
Tested Up To
2.8.4
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
10
Downloads
47K+
Added
Nov 14, 2008
Business
Free

Tags

slowspeedtuningdatabaseperformance

Developer

M
MrPeteH
1 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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