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Scotty is the all-in-one solution for controlling, cleaning, and optimizing your WordPress site. With a modern React-based dashboard and a powerful feature suite, Scotty empowers you to analyze and maintain your database, manage cron jobs, fine-tune security, and control dozens of hidden WordPress settings — all from a single, intuitive interface. For full documentation, visit the Scotty website . Cleaning Trash Management — Delete post revisions, auto-drafts, trashed posts, unapproved/spam/trashed comments, orphaned metadata, and transient options in bulk or one by one. Duplicates Detection — Identify and remove duplicate entries across post meta, comment meta, user meta, and term meta tables. Orphan Cleanup — Find and delete orphaned records in postmeta, commentmeta, usermeta, termmeta, and term relationships. Optimization Database — View all database tables with engine, auto-increment, collation, and overhead info. Optimize tables and reset auto-increment values individually or in bulk. Disk Usage — Overview of WordPress installation size breakdown: core, themes, plugins, uploads, and database. System Cron Manager — View all scheduled cron jobs with next run time, schedule, interval, and arguments. Run, delete, search, sort, and bulk-manage cron jobs. Color-coded schedule badges and time-relative status indicators. Shortcode Registry — Browse all registered shortcodes with their callback functions and callable status. WordPress Settings Control dozens of WordPress settings organized in 6 tabs: General Enable/disable REST API and XML-RPC Hide WordPress version from source code Hide detailed login error messages Disable email authentication Disable the built-in file editor Disable author archives (prevents user enumeration) Disable Application Passwords Admin Show/hide admin footer credit and version Show/hide the Welcome panel Toggle visibility of Dashboard, Posts, Media, Pages, Comments, and Tools menu items Disable update nags for non-admin users Disable the periodic admin email verification prompt Writing Limit the number of post revisions Disable self-pings Configure auto-empty trash interval Reading Set custom excerpt length Hide admin bar on frontend Disable emoji scripts and styles Disable embed scripts (wp-embed.js) Disable jQuery Migrate on frontend Disable RSS and Atom feeds Performance Disable Heartbeat API on frontend Set custom Heartbeat interval Remove Dashicons CSS from frontend for non-admin users Media Disable big image scaling (WordPress 5.3+) Set custom JPEG compression quality Dashboard Widget A compact dashboard widget on the WordPress Dashboard showing posts, comments, users, and options breakdown with progress bars, plus database size and cron count at a glance. Coming Soon Multisite support Database rename, truncate, drop, export, import Database search and replace Database backup Scheduled auto-cleaning Spotlight search (CMD+K) And more…
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Upload the entire content of plugin archive to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress (deactivate and reactivate if you’re upgrading). Done. Enjoy.
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1. What is Scotty? Scotty is a WordPress maintenance and optimization plugin with a modern React-based dashboard. It helps you clean your database, manage cron jobs, control security settings, and optimize your site performance. 2. Do I have to back up before cleaning? Yes, we strongly recommend backing up your database before performing any cleanup operation. 3. Can I undo a cleanup operation? No, cleanup operations are permanent. Always back up first. 4. Will disabling the REST API break my site? Disabling the REST API will prevent unauthenticated access. Logged-in users will still have access. Some plugins may require the REST API to function — test after disabling. 5. Where can I find the documentation? Full documentation, guides, and release notes are available at scotty-plugin.vercel.app . 6. Can I request a new feature? Yes! Please submit feature requests at the support forum . 7. Can I report a bug? Yes! Please report bugs at the support forum .
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