PublisherKits PluginTidy
Most WordPress sites accumulate plugins. A developer installs one for a job that ended three years ago, someone else solves the same problem a different way, and nobody dares turn anything off in case it breaks the site. WordPress can only tell you what is active . It has no idea what is used . Plug
Most WordPress sites accumulate plugins. A developer installs one for a job that ended three years ago, someone else solves the same problem a different way, and nobody dares turn anything off in case it breaks the site.
WordPress can only tell you what is active . It has no idea what is used . PluginTidy closes that gap.
It looks at each plugin and gathers evidence: whether its shortcodes and blocks appear in your content, whether it has scheduled work, whether the data it stores is still written to, whether anyone opens its settings, whether it is still maintained, and whether several plugins do the same job.
Then it tells you what it found — and shows you every reading behind it, so you can disagree.
It gives you evidence, not verdicts
Every assessment expands into the checks that produced it. Nothing is a recommendation on its own.
- Confidence is reported separately from the score. A check that could not run lowers confidence rather than counting against a plugin.
- It says “not enough evidence yet” when that is the truth. Evidence builds up from the day you install it, so a plugin that runs once a quarter is not called idle just because it has been quiet for a fortnight.
- Security, backup and shop plugins are handled carefully and are never put forward for removal automatically.
- Leave a note on any plugin — “powers the jobs board, do not remove” — and it appears everywhere that plugin is listed.
It knows when it cannot tell
If scheduled tasks are not running on your site, every plugin looks idle. PluginTidy detects that and excludes scheduled activity from the assessment rather than holding it against everything. The same applies when WordPress.org cannot be reached: it says so, and the confidence figures show it.
It keeps a record
From the moment you install it, PluginTidy records every plugin installed, activated, updated, deactivated or removed — who did it, when, and why, if you tell it. The history survives the plugin being deleted, so a problem that shows up later can be traced back to the change that caused it.
What is free
Everything above. The full audit, all the evidence, the redundancy findings, the notes, and the complete change log. Nothing is capped — an audit that stopped at ten plugins would be absurd for a tool whose whole purpose is having too many.
