Some fairly useful details here. They really should add to the documentation where to find the link to the panel. It took me several minutes to realize it was a sub item under dashboard. I was thinking tools or settings.

Not getting the checking menu.

I love this plugin. I’ve worked on a number of sites that had an issue where the normal troubleshooting of disabling plugins and themes couldn’t easily be done.

Health check is often one of the first steps in troubleshooting these sites. Although you may still have some manual diagnostics to perform, this narrows things down without breaking the front end of the site. This saves me the time and hassle of setting up a staging site to troubleshoot, then transfer the fix over to the live site.

This is a wonderful plugin for any troubleshooting but especially for sites where it’s important the site doesn’t go down.

I’ve used this plugin a couple of times on client sites, but a recent experience at a WordCamp help desk was amazing. A person came up with a perplexing problem that most of her WooCommerce store products showed their price just fine, but a few (more recently created) products were not showing a price at all. We look at a few basic settings, but nothing looked out of place.

Of course, since this is a live and active store, troubleshooting for plugin conflicts could be a mess, since you don’t want current site visitors to see stuff going up and down. So we installed the Health Check plugin, and deactivated all the plugins except WooCommerce. Strangely, the problem persisted, but when we switched to a default theme, bingo! – the issue resolved. Theme conflict!

We were not able to completely solve the problem with the theme at the help desk, but at least we were able to help this person narrow down where the problem was coming from. I’ll definitely keep this top of mind next time I have issues to troubleshoot – especially when it’s preferable that the live site not be affected!

The ability to temporarily change themes and plugins on an active site without affecting other users is absolutely the best thing I’ve ever encountered in building websites. To manually do everything this plugin does would take hours if not days. It’ll let you root out conflicts in no time, or at least as fast as you can run a test scenario.

Make no mistake, this is not a magic bullet. You still may need to do the debugging work, but it goes so much faster. If you’re lucky, the status and debug screens will flag the problem right away. If not, the troubleshooting mode will at least isolate the problem to a specific theme or plugin.

I was initially reluctant to use this plugin because of many low ratings, but then I realized that the vast majority of low ratings were related to earlier versions. After seeing in the health-check support forum how everyone posting received help and invariably got their problem resolved, it put my reservations to rest and I went ahead and installed this plugin. I never looked back, it’s awesome!

I now recommend health-check to everyone who appears to be experiencing a conflict of some sort. I personally have not heard of anyone I’ve helped having trouble with this plugin. Because of my active involvement in the WordPress support forums, I realize my opinion on this could be biased, but I’m absolutely certain I would be equally pleased if I was brand new to WordPress and encountered a problem.

It’s a great tool to figure out what plugin is causing an issue ( or theme in some cases ). I’ve used it a fair number of times, easy to install, easy to disable and re-enable plugins, easy to remove once you’ve found whatever was causing the issue. The plugin does what it advertises without complaint and, from my understanding, is in active development to get better.