by NSquared 4 (49 reviews)

Plugin Detective - Troubleshooting Conflicts

Name: Plugin Detective - Troubleshooting Conflicts
Rating: 4.0 (49 reviews)
Author: NSquared

Quickly find and fix WordPress plugin conflicts, recover from fatal errors, and clear stuck maintenance mode without any coding.

Plugin Detective ranks #3,072 among WordPress.org plugins with 5,000+ active installations, is #375 of 4,933 in the Utilities & Tools category, a 4/5 rating from 49 reviews, and was last updated Aug 14, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7 (Current: 7.1)

v1.2.33 Current Version v1.2.33

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 14 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#375 of 4,933 in Utilities & Tools Top 5% by installs Downloads -25.7% this week

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#3,072

-1 this week

Active Installs

5K+

-12.4%

KW Avg Position

45.2

0.4 worse

Downloads

211.8K

+10 today

Support Resolved

— No change

Rating

80%

Review 4 out of 5

4 (49 reviews)

Next Milestone 6K

Total Progress 70.4%

5K+ 6K+

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49 reviews

Overall 80%

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.2.33
Last Updated: Aug 14, 2026
Requires WP: 6.1+
Tested Up To: 7
PHP Version: 5.3 or higher
Author: NSquared

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4
Reviews: 49
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners, developers, and support teams who need to diagnose plugin-related problems without coding knowledge. It solves plugin conflicts, fatal errors, and stuck maintenance mode by guiding users through a step-by-step troubleshooting process to identify and deactivate the problematic plugin.

Guided plugin conflict troubleshooting
Recover from fatal errors
Remove stuck .maintenance files
Deactivate problem plugins
Works during White Screen of Death
Troubleshoot from frontend or backend
Choose baseline active plugins
Step-by-step interrogation process

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Plugin Detective - Troubleshooting Conflicts

Install Plugin Detective. Then, from the WordPress admin, you'll find Plugin Detective under the Tools menu. Alternatively, you'll find a Troubleshoot link added to your admin bar. Click this link on any page, admin or front end, to troubleshoot an issue you're seeing on that page.

You can install Plugin Detective via FTP as long as you can still access your hosting account. On the Installation tab, we've included instructions for Manual Installation. Once Plugin Detective is installed, head to yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-detective/troubleshoot. You'll be asked to log in with your WordPress username and password to make sure you have the right permissions, and then Detective Otto Bot will step you through troubleshooting just like always.

Detective Otto learns from you. While interrogating the different suspects, Otto will check in with you to see if the issue is still happening on your site or not. You just need to answer "Fixed" or "Broken" after Otto makes a change. Each of your answers provides Otto with another clue that he can use to narrow down the list of plugins to find the one causing the problem.

There's no time limit on the clues for Otto. Some issues are more complex than others. You can use the embedded screen Otto provides you to step through several steps to see if the issue appears, or you can even open your site in a new window and step through whatever steps it takes to replicate the problem you're having. Once you have the answer – minutes or even hours later – you can tell Otto either "Yes, it's fixed" or "No, it's still broken".

Yes, it's much faster. Robots can be really fast at figuring out puzzles like these, and Detective Otto Bot is no exception. Rather than disabling your plugins one by one, Otto can disable groups of plugins and use your answers to quickly narrow the scope of his investigation using binary search (a fancy robot term for saving you time).

Otto was likely interrogating a group of suspects at the time. The clue that the problem was fixed only narrows it down to one suspect in that group. Give Otto a couple more rounds of interrogation, and he'll find the exact plugin causing your problem.

No, we don't support multisite yet. We wanted to get Plugin Detective out there for people to use as soon as possible, but there’s a good amount of work to do before it will support multisite. As you may know, multisite can get a bit complicated. With a single install, it’s easy to determine which plugins are active and manipulate them. With a multisite, there are network-activated plugins and plugins at the site level. And theoretically, Plugin Detective could run the whole network or just look at a single site. And there are permission differences between a network admin and a site admin. So it will take some work for us to support all that. We want to see how much interest there is in supporting multisite, and get some feedback from multisite users to understand what would be most useful for them and how they’d use it. If you're reading this, you likely want to use Plugin Detective to troubleshoot multisite installs. Please send us an email (team@nsquared.io) to let us know you're interested and answer a few questions to help us build this the right way: Would this just be a tool for you (the network admin)? Or would you want your site admins to be able to run it (and I assume they could only test their site-activated plugins, not disable any that you’ve network-activated?)