Best troubleshooting plugins for WordPress
The most popular troubleshooting plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. phpinfo() WP leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of WP Safe Mode (2K+) and WP Mail Debugger (1K+). All 66 plugins tagged “troubleshooting” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 troubleshooting plugins
- 1.
phpinfo() WPThe most installed troubleshooting plugin, with 3K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 8 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
WP Safe Mode2K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 8 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.WP Mail Debugger
1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 4.
Error Sniffing Pug100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.Rewrite Flush Button
100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 6.
Conflict Finder100+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 4 months ago.
- 7.Phpinfo
100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 19 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.2.2.
- 8.
Developer Debug Mode50+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 9.
Diagnostic Glance50+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 10.
Quick debug.log Viewer20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
All 66 plugins tagged “troubleshooting”

phpinfo() WP
Down in the last 7 days:28#3,939by Exeebit11 days ago
Stop silent site breakages. The ultimate in-admin server audit & per-user troubleshooting tool built for agencies and professional developers.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 147/day

WP Safe Mode
Down in the last 7 days:10#4,836by Marcus (aka @msykes)1 month ago
Disable plugins or switch themes for just you or the whole site for debugging, troubleshooting or accessing and restoring a broken website.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.3(8)
- Downloads
- 16/day
WP Mail Debugger
Up in the last 7 days:182#6,149by Timothy Jacobs2 years ago
WP Mail Debugger captures and displays all emails sent through wp_mail() for debugging and troubleshooting.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 17/day

Error Sniffing Pug
Up in the last 7 days:66#13,150by Service2Client LLC2 months ago
Turns a WordPress fatal error into a plain-language diagnosis, names the plugin at fault, emails you the reason, and prepares a bug report.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rewrite Flush Button
Up in the last 7 days:50#14,048by Shaun Scovil13 years ago
Adds a "Flush Rewrite Rules" button to WP-Admin > Settings > Permalinks.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Conflict Finder
Down in the last 7 days:48#14,380by WP Fix It - WordPress Experts4 months ago
Conflict Finder is a WordPress troubleshooting toolkit that helps diagnose plugin conflicts, theme issues, debugging errors, and email delivery proble …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Phpinfo
Down in the last 7 days:34#15,812by Roland Rust19 years ago
Prints out your webservers php settings as well as other information about your WordPress installation.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Developer Debug Mode
Up in the last 7 days:132#20,430by Glimbyte9 months ago
Toggle WordPress debug mode instantly. No wp-config.php editing needed. Features auto-save, admin bar quick toggle, and debug log viewer.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Diagnostic Glance
Up in the last 7 days:70#20,854by LaughterOnWater10 months ago
Diagnostic summary of WordPress setup including themes, plugins, system config, and site stats -- formatted for support forum posting.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Quick debug.log Viewer
Up in the last 7 days:63#27,583by WPSani1 year ago
Easily view and manage your WordPress debug.log file directly from the admin area — no FTP access required.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MAKcubes
#29,582by Mohammed Kassem2 months ago
A lightweight utility plugin to clear WordPress core caches such as transients and object cache.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Get easy quotes for WP Development project
#32,690by WPspin LLC8 months ago
Easily get quotes for WordPress projects by sharing structured requirements for themes, plugins, troubleshooting, and support.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Reimage Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:1,601#42,484by reimagedev7 months ago
Short Description: Optimize and compress images and videos in WordPress. Improve speed and SEO with HLS, logs, and troubleshooting tools.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Titanium Error Intelligence
Down in the last 7 days:12,060#44,649by Admin Plugins2 months ago
Detect PHP error spikes, recurring patterns, request impact and source-version changes with grouped local diagnostics.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Eshop Magic
Up in the last 7 days:1,517#46,150by CPK Web Solutions13 years ago
Enhances the eShop plugin. Tweak the look and feel. Check your settings. Assistance with problems.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Anti-Cache Kit
Up in the last 7 days:1,051#46,491by Fernando Tellado2 months ago
Flushes and deactivates cache and optimization plugins, enables debug mode, and provides maintenance mode for WordPress development.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Print Basic Facts
Down in the last 7 days:1,875#46,501by Anthony Ledesma8 years ago
Print Basic Facts will display valuable, time saving, information for a WordPress site. Optimize your troubleshooting efforts with this lightweight ap …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Conflict Guard
Up in the last 7 days:12,398#50,244by Ceaser mwangi2 months ago
Find the WordPress plugin breaking your site. Safely detect, isolate, troubleshoot, and roll back plugin conflicts without taking your website offline …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
BuildsByLuke Speed Autopsy
Up in the last 7 days:17,787#50,616by Luke W16 days ago
When a cache or minify setting silently breaks your CSS, JS or layout, it finds the exact setting that did it. Read-only, changes nothing.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SchedSense
Up in the last 7 days:2,117#50,741by shahidirfan1001 month ago
Fast diagnostics for Action Scheduler queues: review overdue and failed actions, likely sources, WP-Cron, loopback, and REST API health.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Faultline
Up in the last 7 days:10,467#51,840by Daniel Chase2 days ago
See which plugin caused each PHP error, open the exact line of code, get alerted to fatal errors, and keep routine notices out of debug.log.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Bernerslee Site Diagnostics & Recovery
Up in the last 7 days:19,349#51,898by bernerslee2 months ago
Find WordPress errors, connect them with recent changes, and troubleshoot uncertain causes with optional AI analysis.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Backtrail
Up in the last 7 days:268#53,091by thomasbkc1 month ago
See what changed on your site right before it broke.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WTeam Executor
Up in the last 7 days:77#53,744by Zoltan Csergo1 month ago
AI-powered WordPress assistant for diagnostics, guided admin tasks, site inspection and supported wp-admin interaction.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Culprit Finder
Up in the last 7 days:17,366#55,109by alhiane16 days ago
Find the plugin that broke your site. Plugins are switched off for your browser only, so visitors never notice.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

Tracedown Culprit Finder
#55,422by kuber23 days ago
Finds the plugin behind a critical error or white screen, without ever writing the active plugin list. You cannot get stuck, and you get a name.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

I Need Help!
Up in the last 7 days:10,769#56,135by Web Guy9 months ago
From any page on the front-end or back-end of your WordPress-powered site, send out an SOS to your webmaster if you run into any trouble.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ActionPanel AI
#56,426by Atiba4 months ago
AI assistant that creates and edits WordPress content, troubleshoots issues, and runs maintenance.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

DiagnosticIQ for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:6,903#56,629by johnokeane3 months ago
Catch bugs before they cost you sales — 24/7 WooCommerce health monitoring, plus AI that pinpoints the cause and the fix when something breaks.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Course Access Debugger for LearnDash
#56,969by Raja Aman Ullah12 days ago
Find out why a LearnDash user can or cannot access a course. A check-by-check access report and a per-course enrollment audit.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

WebCrew Site Detective
Up in the last 7 days:5,126#57,499by webcrewcz1 month ago
Find what changed before your WordPress site broke. A free activity timeline, detective scan, diagnostics, alerts, privacy tools and exports.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

TryMode
Down in the last 7 days:4,620#58,020by Som Shrestha1 month ago
Start an experiment, make WordPress changes, review exactly what changed, then keep it or discard what can safely be reverted.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

Shipping Doctor for WooCommerce
#58,023by tinywebtools2 months ago
Find why WooCommerce shipping is missing or wrong. Check zones, Free Shipping, product data, and test customer addresses.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Nonce Failure Explainer
#59,108by Syed Shahzaib Hassan2 months ago
Explains "Are you sure you want to do this?" and "Security check failed" errors: finds the failed nonce check and names the likely cause.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Anonindo Conflict Detector
#63,086by Akshay Vasoya6 months ago
Detect likely plugin conflicts, review logged PHP fatal errors, and follow a safer manual troubleshooting workflow inside WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Fullworks Support Diagnostics
Up in the last 7 days:1,032#63,392by fullworks1 year ago
A diagnostic tool that helps plugin developers provide better support by collecting relevant system information and managing debug constants.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Privileged Conflict Diagnostics
#63,439by privilegedusa6 months ago
Diagnose likely plugin and theme conflicts by scanning assets, hooks, AJAX, REST routes, and compare-based test mode results.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
DebugZen
Up in the last 7 days:5,642#63,835by Parag Das2 months ago
Debug WordPress safely without FTP. Manage wp-config.php debug constants and inspect, filter, or clear logs directly from your dashboard.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Versatile
Down in the last 7 days:614#63,853by nurwp5 months ago
A comprehensive WordPress toolkit featuring maintenance mode, coming soon pages, and advanced troubleshooting tools with IP-based plugin control.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

Sanctuary Ranger Crash Recorder
Down in the last 7 days:4,674#63,872by rachelmharrisoncoaching26 days ago
Records what led up to a fatal error, alerts you, and can optionally deactivate a repeatedly crashing plugin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WebOsmotic AI Site Debugger
#63,984by sainawebosmotic76 days ago
Collects WordPress diagnostic data, redacts sensitive info locally, and uses Cloudflare Workers AI to explain issues and suggest fixes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 50/day

BrenWP Client Safe Mode
Up in the last 7 days:5,524#64,746by Brendigo10 months ago
Per-user Safe Mode plus role-based client restrictions for safer troubleshooting and cleaner client handoff.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Notice TraceLog
#65,022by shuliakmaster1 year ago
Easily display PHP backtraces when Notices occur. Designed for developers to quickly identify the source of early execution issues in WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Ravnsight Detective
#65,522by Kristoffer Pihlfelt3 days ago
Site broke after an update? See the PHP error, the plugin behind it, and every change on one timeline — not just that something broke.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

TroubleLens
Down in the last 7 days:14,164#65,773by Som Shrestha1 month ago
Find plugin and theme conflicts by switching things off for yourself only. Your visitors keep seeing the site exactly as it is.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Extension Profiles
#66,647by David Towoju8 months ago
Create named profiles to quickly switch between different sets of active plugins per user session.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Clashlens
#66,703by sungraizfaryad2 months ago
Find which plugins are conflicting on your site. Scans for jQuery overrides, PHP errors, hook collisions and known incompatible plugin pairs.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

SiteMedic Rescue Toolkit
#67,495by prakashghai4 months ago
Diagnose and safely repair WordPress issues with site health, debug, security, cleanup, and recovery tools.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Site Current
Down in the last 7 days:12,274#68,098by Ali Ifqiren1 month ago
A calm WordPress second opinion that shows what needs attention, what changed, and what to look at next.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Freedomification Log Inspector
#68,398by Marek Jankowski2 months ago
Freedomification Log Inspector is a lightweight, admin-only log viewer for safely reading and searching selected local log files in wp-admin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day