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Culprit Finder – Plugin Conflict Troubleshooter

Name: Culprit Finder – Plugin Conflict Troubleshooter
Author: alhiane

Find the plugin that broke your site. Plugins are switched off for your browser only, so visitors never notice.

Culprit Finder ranks #53,706 among WordPress.org plugins with 0+ active installations, is #4,408 of 5,240 in the Utilities & Tools category, and was last updated Oct 23, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.3

v0.4.0 Current Version v0.4.0

Updated 13 hours ago Last Update on 23 Oct, 2026

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Plugin Details

Version: 0.4.0
Last Updated: Oct 23, 2026
Requires WP: 6.5+
Tested Up To: 7.1.3
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: alhiane

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Culprit Finder – Plugin Conflict Troubleshooter

No. Plugins are only switched off for requests from your own browser while you are logged in. Logged-out visitors and other administrators always get every plugin, and pages filtered for you are marked as not cacheable.

That's normal: it often means the plugins switched on in that step are the problem. Open the control panel link you bookmarked (the Culprit Finder page with culprit_safe=1), which always loads safely, and answer there. WordPress may also email you about the error; you can ignore it during troubleshooting.

Yes, through WordPress's own recovery mode:

Go to Culprit Finder, bookmark the two links, and press Start. Click Exit Recovery Mode in the admin bar straight away. This matters: while recovery mode is on, WordPress keeps that plugin paused and your answers would be wrong. Culprit Finder now keeps your site usable instead, and the control panel link always works. Answer the questions as usual. If the recovery email never arrives (some hosts can't send email), ask another administrator, use WP-CLI (wp plugin deactivate), or rename the plugin's folder via FTP to get back in. WordPress's recovery email usually names the plugin that crashed; Culprit Finder is most useful when the cause isn't obvious, such as two plugins that only fail together.

Any of these ends troubleshooting: Press Exit on the Culprit Finder page, in the dashboard widget, or in the admin bar. Open the emergency exit link you bookmarked. It works even when you're logged out. Wait an hour without answering; the session expires by itself. Every session also ends by itself after three hours at most. Deactivate Culprit Finder. Clear your browser cookies or use another browser: only your browser was affected. Delete wp-content/mu-plugins/culprit-finder-loader.php with FTP or your host's file manager.

No. Culprit Finder makes no external requests and has no tracking. Results are stored only on your site (your last 10), and the support report contains no site address, user names or emails. Uninstalling removes everything.

About 7 for 30 plugins, because each answer halves the list. Finding two plugins that only fail together takes a few more.

Your theme, must-use plugins, drop-ins (such as object-cache.php or advanced-cache.php), and server configuration. If the problem stays with every plugin off, the report says so.

Not yet. It refuses to start on multisite networks.

To switch plugins off for your browser only, Culprit Finder must run before WordPress loads the other plugins, and only must-use plugins load that early. So when you press Start it adds one small helper file there, the same approach as WordPress's own Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. Without your troubleshooting cookie the file does nothing. It is removed when troubleshooting ends (Exit, the emergency exit link, the 60-minute timeout or the three-hour limit, or deactivating the plugin), and Culprit Finder never overwrites or deletes a file it didn't create.