No bloat. No settings you'll never touch. Every feature in PluginShield was built because the existing solutions were broken or simply didn't exist.
WordPress powers 43% of the web. Sooner or later, every site hits a plugin conflict. PluginShield finds it fast.
The binary search algorithm reduces an impossible problem — "which of my 40 plugins is broken?" — into a simple click-and-answer loop. Most conflicts are found in under 10 minutes.
Live scan · 28 plugins
Disabled 7 plugins
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Your scanner shouldn't stop at plugins. Many conflicts are plugin-theme, not plugin-plugin — and no other tool tests this cleanly.
After all plugins are cleared, PluginShield can temporarily switch your active theme to a default WordPress theme (Twenty Twenty-Five, etc.) and ask you to check your site. If the problem disappears, your theme is the culprit.
The #1 fear of WordPress maintenance: "what if the update breaks something?" Safe Update Mode eliminates it entirely.
Before any update, PluginShield copies the current plugin version as a backup. After the update, you test your site. If anything is wrong, one click restores the previous version instantly.
Not all updates are equally risky. A patch fixing a typo is not the same as a "major rewrite." PluginShield tells you the difference before you click update.
Before every update, PluginShield pulls data from the WordPress.org API and evaluates four independent signals: changelog keywords, support thread spike rate, rating trend after the last release, and version jump size. The result is a clear 1–5 risk score shown directly on the Safe Update page.
59% of WordPress plugins haven't been updated in 2+ years. You're probably running a few right now.
The Plugin Health Dashboard queries the WordPress.org API for every active plugin and surfaces four critical issues: abandonment, untested compatibility, PHP version mismatches, and plugins removed from the directory entirely.
Debug Bar and Query Monitor tell you PHP errors exist. PluginShield tells you which plugin caused them — silently, in production, without any action from you.
A background error handler captures every PHP warning, notice, and deprecated call during normal WordPress execution. It traces each error back to the plugin file it originated from and logs it weekly. Nobody else does this cleanly.
WordPress plugin cleanup is a huge pain point. Every plugin you've ever tried leaves debris in your database — tables, options rows, transients. Nobody tracks this. Until now.
PluginShield scans what database tables and wp_options entries each plugin created on activation, and diffs them after deactivation. "This plugin left 47 database rows after deactivation" is immediately actionable.
When you find a conflict, you're probably not the first. PluginShield builds a community-powered database of known conflict plugins that nobody else can replicate quickly — it requires the user base you build on WP.org.
After a scan finds a culprit, you can submit it anonymously with one click. Only the plugin slug and name are sent — never your site URL, user data, or anything identifiable. Over time, the community database warns other users before they hit the same problem.
Start free, upgrade when you need Safe Update Mode, Risk Scoring, PHP Error Attribution, and DB Footprint Tracking.