Free WordPress diagnostic plugin

Map the site before you touch it.

Avestris Site Doctor is a read-only first look for inherited, fragile, or suspicious WordPress sites. It runs inside WordPress, gathers local evidence, and helps you see what plugins, themes, files, database tables, PHP symbols, and browser scripts appear to be doing.

Boundary: no automatic repairs, no update-all button, no background telemetry, and no routine call back to Avestris. Normal diagnostic work stays on the customer site unless an administrator chooses to export a bundle for paid review.

Who It Helps

For the person who inherited the site.

WordPress can look calm in the dashboard while the real system is a tangle of abandoned plugins, custom tables, old themes, hidden scripts, and half-remembered hosting decisions.

Before updates. See load-bearing plugins, unusual code surfaces, database ownership, and obvious risk signals before clicking anything irreversible.
Before migration. Find page-builder lock-in, custom post types, plugin tables, media drift, and serialized-data hazards that turn simple moves into archaeology.
Before escalation. Give an operator a compact evidence bundle instead of a vague story about a site that has always been cursed.
What It Is Not

A diagnosis lane, not a repair robot.

Avestris Site Doctor is deliberately descriptive, not prescriptive. It maps evidence and flags conditions that deserve review. It does not delete files, change database schemas, install updates, clean malware, or claim that one signal proves a full compromise.

  • Read-only collection by default.
  • Customer-owned evidence stays local unless exported.
  • Findings are framed as operational risk, not theater.
What It Maps

The gremlin atlas.

Ownership Graph

Core, plugins, themes, directories, files, database tables, PHP symbols, inline scripts, and remote browser calls are shown as navigable relationships instead of a wall of disconnected tables.

Site Reality

Installed components, active themes, WordPress runtime details, user posture, file surfaces, database residue, JavaScript behavior, and operational findings are collected into a local report.

Review Signals

Site Doctor looks for the kinds of evidence that matter before repair: stale admins, suspicious code placement, exposed artifacts, plugin residue, huge files, odd scripts, and brittle dependencies.

How The Lane Works

Local evidence first. Paid interpretation only if useful.

1. Install locally.
Run the free plugin from the WordPress admin area. The scanner is read-only and does not phone home.
2. Read the site map.
Use the graph and component tabs to see what core, plugins, themes, files, tables, PHP symbols, and scripts are tied together.
3. Decide whether review is worth it.
If the site is fragile, inherited, suspicious, or headed for migration, export the bundle and buy a scoped Avestris interpretation.
4. Quote follow-on work separately.
Repairs, cleanup, migrations, malware response, and production changes are separate engagements after the diagnostic boundary.